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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

o'impeach - Obama/Holder Could Face Felony Charges for Fast and Furious


Considering that 2 attempts to impeach President Andrew Johnson for general issues involving appointments & tenure, that President Nixon was nearly impeached for 'lying or covering up', that President Reagan's 'Iran-Contra Affair' centered on 'coverups', that President Clinton's impeachment was for covering up his "doorknob being polished" (plus lying before a grand jury), then why shouldn't the murder of U.S. law enforcement and untold hundreds of Mexican citizens rise to the same level?  -- rfh
     Impeachment in the United States is an expressed power of the legislature that allows for formal charges against a civil officer of government for crimes committed in office.  The actual trial on those charges, and subsequent removal of an official onconviction on those charges, is separate from the act of impeachment itself.
     Impeachment is analogous to indictment in regular court proceedings, while trial by the other house is analogous to the trial before judge and jury in regular courts. Typically, the lower house of the legislature will impeach the official and the upper house will conduct the trial.
     At the federal level, Article II of the United States Constitution (Section 4) states that "The President, Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors." The House of Representatives has the sole power of impeaching, while the United States Senate has the sole power to try all impeachments.  The removal of impeached officials is automatic upon conviction in the Senate.
     Impeachment can also occur at the state level; state legislatures can impeach state officials, including governors, according to their respective state constitutions.
     At the Philadelphia Convention, Benjamin Franklin noted that, historically, the removal of "obnoxious" chief executives had been accomplished by assassination.  Franklin suggested that a proceduralized mechanism for removal — impeachment — would be preferable.[1]   (source:  Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States)
From: Western Journalism  Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Subject: Obama/Holder Could Face Felony Charges for Fast and Furious
   Obama/Holder Could Face Felony Charges for Fast and Furious [impeachment proceedings?]
Original source article at: http://floydreports.com/obamaholder-could-face-felony-charges-for-fast-and-furious/

reposted from:  http://www.westernjournalism.com/obamaholder-could-face-felony-charges-for-fast-and-furious/ July 25, 2011 by Guest Writer

by Doug Book
     Why waste time asking "What did you know and when did you know it?" when the Obama Regime might already face felony charges?
     That's the question Attorney David Hardy and others are asking those investigating the role of Regime members in the deadly gun walking fiasco,  Fast and Furious.
     Since whistleblowers brought this scheme to the attention of Congress early this year,  Senator Charles Grassley and Congressman Darrell Issa have been frustrated by Department of Justice stonewalling,  subterfuge, and misrepresentation.
     As Grassley wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder in a July 18th correspondence,  "If the attorneys working on the [Justice]  Department's  response to the Committee spent less time redacting documents and more time producing them,  we would be much closer to understanding the failures in leadership surrounding Operation Fast and Furious."
     But it is Hardy's contention that the leadership at the Department of Justice,  the ATF and perhaps the FBI and DEA are in violation of the Arms Export Control Act of 1976.
     Written to make certain that members of the executive branch do not "mistakenly" sell arms to terrorists or tyrants,  the Act clearly states that a president selling "defense articles" to another nation must first receive a permit from the Secretary of State. Nevertheless,  no permit is necessary if those articles are: For official use by a department or agency of the United States government;  or for carrying out any foreign assistance or sales program authorized by law…
     As Hardy rightly concludes,  "the firearms involved  [in Fast and Furious]  were not being exported for official use by an agency,  nor as part of foreign aid."
     And although the people who made the straw purchases or transported the weapons across the border are obviously guilty under the Act,  administration officials who encouraged or permitted these violations are equally liable,  as "principles."
     "Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids,  abets,  counsels,  commands,  induces or procures its commission,  is punishable as a principle."
And U.S. gun store owners were certainly "induced" to sell weapons to known straw purchasers by the ATF,  just as the DOJ,  FBI, and DEA "commanded,"  "counseled,"  and "procured" the commission of illegal Fast and Furious sales and the transport of those weapons.
     How does our government treat private companies or individuals found guilty of violating the AECA? In 2009, John Reece Roth,  a former University of Tennessee professor was sentenced to 48 months in prison for sharing technical data concerning the work he was doing for the Air Force.
     In 2007, ITT was fined $100 million dollars for transferring classified information about lasers and countermeasures to Singapore.
     And this year, Swiss Technologies Inc.,  a New Jersey defense contractor was fined $1.1 million dollars for sending drawings and specifications of gun parts to a Chinese company so that those parts might be produced more cheaply when fulfilling contractual agreements with the U.S. Defense Department.
     Will the Regime remain immune to United States law? Or will the Grassley/Issa committees eventually get around to bringing charges which could result in the downfall of Obama and his cronies!
     The Gunrunner story is just getting warmed up.

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This article originally appeared on CoachIsRight.com and is reprinted with permission.

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    o'gun ban - Botched Gunrunner Program Funded by Obama Stimulus

    From: Minuteman PAC Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Subject: Botched Gunrunner Program Funded by Obama Stimulus
    ERIC HOLDER'S GUNRUNNER SCANDAL FUNDED
    WITH $10 MILLION OF OBAMA'S STIMULUS MONEY
    ERIC HOLDER'S POORLY EXECUTED ATTEMPT TO DEMOLISH THE SECOND AMENDMENT
         There is a new little wrinkle in Attorney General Eric Holder's claims of ignorance regarding the Gunrunner Scandal ? Holder's Department of Justice requested and received $10 million in funding specifically for "Project Gunrunner" as part of Obama's 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, aka the Stimulus Bill.
         The damning evidence can be found on page 16 of the Act, under the heading "Department of Justice" and subheading "Office of Justice Programs"! According to the Library of Congress the section reads as follows:
    "For an additional amount for 'State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance', $40,000,000, for competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the Southern border, of which $10,000,000 shall be transferred to 'Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses' for the ATF Project Gunrunner."
         Eric Holder not only knew about Gunrunner, he requested $10 million to fund it. The only question now is, how much did Barack Obama know and when did he know it?
         "You've got people who are dead. You have weapons that are missing and you have an administration that doesn't seem to want to take any accountability for it," Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT).
         Like something out of a bad conspiracy movie, it is beginning to appear that Holder agreed to the now infamous "Gunrunner/Gun Walking/Fast & Furious" program in part to help Second Amendment hating Leftists who sought to impose gun control by "proving" that law abiding American gun shops were responsible for Mexican gang violence.
         The plan might have worked brilliantly were it not for one murdered U.S. border patrol agent and a handful of dedicated ATF agents brave and honorable enough to blow the whistle on their own organization's shameful sellout of the U.S. Constitution.
         Even now, as the true cost and body count resulting from Holder's betrayal become evident, the Left just isn't ready to give up. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said in a statement that "no legitimate examination of this issue will be complete without analyzing our nation's gun laws, which allow tens of thousands of assault weapons to flood into Mexico from the United States every year, including fifty caliber sniper rifles, multiple AK variants, and scores of others." Rep. Cummings apparently does not care that it was the U.S. Government, not its citizens, who sent these guns ? in violation of standing U.S. law ? to Mexico in the first place. Anything to kill the Second Amendment ? even killing our own brave border patrol field agents!
         As the damning evidence and criminal implications mount, Eric Holder's Department of Justice seems intent upon stonewalling - adding contempt of Congress to the possible list of charges levied against the ATF and DOJ.
         ATF supervisors, acting as Holder's "yes men" and co-conspirators have already been caught red handed in a web of lies poured upon a suspicious Congress and a shocked nation. While supervisors told the House Oversight Committee that no guns were ever allowed across the border, whistle blowing ATF field agents have provided ample evidence to the contrary. For every document the ATF powerbrokers have refused to turn over, brave agents-on-the-ground have turned over their own records, including emails from the very supervisors denying "Project Gun Walker" (now being called "Project Gunrunner" by the mainstream media) which, in the higher-ups' own words and directives, confirms the entire gun walking operation.
         ATF supervisors, surprised that their lies had been exposed, are now refusing to turn documents over to House Oversight Chairman Chairman Darrell Issa's investigators, claiming the need for redaction of sensitive and classified information. Chairman Issa has made it clear that he wants these documents unmolested. But given the current state of our criminal government, it is doubtful he will receive the evidence any time soon, if at all.
    We must stand up for our rights before a corrupt Eric Holder and tyrannical Barack Obama seize our guns and our liberty without any hope of restoration or renewal.
         BACKGROUND: ERIC HOLDER'S LONG EXPERIENCE WITH GUN RUNNERS: Holder has been defending a Columbian gun running scam since 2007
         The DOJ/ATF "Gun Walker" scandal isn't the first time Eric Holder's name has come up in association with gun runners and terrorist organizations. Just a few years ago Holder acted as defense attorney for one of the largest gun running scandals in recent history.


         In 2007, then private attorney Eric Holder defended the group that funneled $1.7 million into the Columbian group AUC (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia) ? a U.S. designated terrorist organization. In addition to funding, Chiquita International Brands (CIB) helped the group illegally import over 3,000 AK-47s and 5 million rounds of ammunition into a country ripped apart by drug wars.  And Eric Holder not only defended CIB, he initially argued to the court that CIB had done nothing wrong.  When that did not work, he helped CIB negotiate a relatively small fine and eliminate legal penalties for the CIB employees who facilitated the illicit weapons transactions.

         Now it comes to light that Eric Holder's own U.S. Department of Justice, through its reporting agency the ATF, instituted a policy of assisting in the illegal export of guns to Mexican drug cartels.  ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) agents reportedly not only turned a blind eye toward illegal gun sales, field agents were forced by superiors to actively facilitate the transfers.  And in at least one case, that of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, the cartels used those "gun walked" weapons to murder U.S. officers.
         In his recent testimony before Congress, Eric Holder claimed absolutely no knowledge of the "Gun Walker" program.  But given his previous work with gun runners, it is not far-fetched to imagine that Holder not only knew, but had a large hand in the program.
         Frankly, the ongoing DOJ/ATF "Gun Walker" scandal represents only the latest in a long line of disgraces associated with Attorney General Eric Holder, including numerous instances of his refusal to enforce or even abide by the law, such as the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case, the ACORN Voter corruption and funding scandals, federal court orders regarding "ObamaCare" and Congressional subpoenas, and his shocking dereliction of duty regarding the Defense of Marriage Act.
       Rather than stand as the "top cop" and ultimate sentinel and protector of our nation's rule of law, Holder seems to be far more interested in traducing the law to suit his own cronies, radical friends, colleagues, business associates ? plus random "clients" and high bidders.  How much longer will we tolerate corruption and outright trampling of the Constitution from America's highest law enforcement office?  Our current Attorney General is not fit to lead the Department of Justice.  ERIC HOLDER MUST GO!
         Congressional hearings into the "Gun Walker" case are happening now, so we must act quickly to ensure the Department of Justice can be cleansed of the cancer destroying it from within.  Please fax Congress now!  And please consider making a donation to help Life & Liberty PAC continue our crucial whistleblowing operations.
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