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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on October 24, 2014, 04:40:21 pm
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http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/10/valerie-jarrett-key-player-fast-furious-cover-holder-lied-congress/ (http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/10/valerie-jarrett-key-player-fast-furious-cover-holder-lied-congress/)
Valerie Jarrett Key Player in Fast and Furious Cover-Up After Holder Lied to Congress
OCTOBER 24, 2014
President Obama’s trusted senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, was a key player in the effort to cover-up that Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about the Fast and Furious scandal, according to public records obtained by Judicial Watch.
The information is part of a Department of Justice (DOJ) “Vaughn index” detailing records about the gun-running operation known as Fast and Furious. JW had to sue the agency for the records after the Obama administration failed to provide them under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A federal court ordered the DOJ to provide the records over the agency’s objections. Yesterday JW reported on the broad information in the records, including that Obama asserted executive privilege for Holder’s wife as part of the administration’s efforts to cover up the scandal.
Practically lost in the 1,000-plus pages of records is an index that shows Jarrett was brought in to manage the fact that Holder lied to Congress after the story about the disastrous gun-running operation broke in the media. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) ran the once-secret program that allowed guns from the U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels. Instead, federal law enforcement officers lost track of hundreds of weapons which have been used in an unknown number of crimes, including the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.
The files received by JW include three electronic mails between Holder and Jarrett and one from former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke to Jarrett. The e-mails with Holder are all from October 4, 2011, a significant date because, on the evening of October 3rd, Sheryl Attkisson (then at CBS news) released documents showing that Holder had been sent a briefing paper on Operation Fast and Furious on June 5, 2010. The paper was from the director of the National Drug Intelligence Center, Michael Walther.
This directly contradicted Holder’s May 3, 2011 testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, during which he stated that he, “probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.” The October 4, 2011 date may also be significant because it came shortly after the August 30, 2011 resignation of U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke and reassignment of acting ATF director Kenneth Melson to the position of “senior forensics advisor” at DOJ.
The description of one of the e-mails, written from Jarrett to Holder, reads, “re: personnel issues.” Another, also from Jarrett, reads, “outlining and discussing preferred course of action for future responses in light of recent development in congressional investigation.” Unfortunately, the index is vague and that’s all the information we have about them. Nevertheless, given the timing and subject of these e-mails, it seems clear that Jarrett quickly became a key player in the Fast and Furious cover-up in the immediate aftermath of the revelation that Holder had lied to Congress.
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One thing is patently obvious to anyone paying attention to this and that is that there is something so rotten here they will do anything to avoid divulging whatever that is!
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One thing is patently obvious to anyone paying attention to this and that is that there is something so rotten here they will do anything to avoid divulging whatever that is!
They merely have to run out the clock. They'll get away with it, too.
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Thank the Lord for Judicial Watch.
Without them, we wouldn't have half the information we have on this criminal administration.
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They merely have to run out the clock. They'll get away with it, too.
They have already gotten away with it. This kind of corruption is now business as usual and unfortunately most people don't particularly care and that is why it continues.
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They have already gotten away with it. This kind of corruption is now business as usual and unfortunately most people don't particularly care and that is why it continues.
Right you are. Just look at all the perfidy Clinton got away with. The nation can survive an Obama or even a Clinton, but it cannot survive the imbeciles who elected them.
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Right you are. Just look at all the perfidy Clinton got away with. The nation can survive an Obama or even a Clinton, but it cannot survive the imbeciles who elected them.
It's not even the electorate any more. If the bosses are corrupt, the underlings are even more corrupt. What you going to do - fire every last Federal and State worker and start over? Nice idea, but it'll never happen.
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What's the 'over and under' that the "Senior administration official" who called Netanyahu a "chickensh*t", is none other than Valerie Jarrett?
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What's the 'over and under' that the "Senior administration official" who called Netanyahu a "chickensh*t", is none other than Valerie Jarrett?
10/1 in favor!
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It's not even the electorate any more. If the bosses are corrupt, the underlings are even more corrupt. What you going to do - fire every last Federal and State worker and start over? Nice idea, but it'll never happen.
True enough. But the public would be better informed and engaged on such issues if we actually had a news media that acted as a news media, rather than as PR flacks for Democrats.
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They have already gotten away with it. This kind of corruption is now business as usual and unfortunately most people don't particularly care and that is why it continues.
They care, when the media tells them to care.
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What's the 'over and under' that the "Senior administration official" who called Netanyahu a "chickensh*t", is none other than Valerie Jarrett?
:thumbsup:
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They care, when the media tells them to care.
That would make them pretty stupid. Of course there is ample evidence that they are. They don't know what their govt is up to but they know what clooney and kardashians are up to so they are well informed.