Bob Owens, writing in Pajamas Media, explains very well why the DOJ Inspector General's Office is not the proper body to investigate the ATF gun-running scandal.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/doj-inspector-general-cant-be-trusted-to-investigate-gunwalker/
If this scandal were centered around the alleged misdeeds odf simple street agents or low-level supervisors, that is one thing. When it centers around heads of agencies and the higher-ups at DOJ itself, that is quite another-especially when it goes right to the AG's office, and even more so when you look at what DOJ has done to the whistleblowers in the first place. There is every indication that there is a high-level cover-up going on within the Attorney General's office. President Obama is echoing the denials of Eric Holder. That all means that a special prosecutor is needed and Congress also needs to be involved.
Andy Ramirez contributes this article on the story for The New American:
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/7599-project-gunrunner
And isn't it amazing that the mainstream media is ignoring the story? Compare their inattention to the Nixon Watergate scandal (which sent Attorney General John Mitchell to prison). Don't forget that we have two dead Border Patrol agents recently murdered by weapons that were allowed to "walk" into the hands of Mexican cartels under this shocking program. To try and limit this to Phoenix-based ATF agents and even the acting head of ATF, Ken Melson, is disgraceful. I am not defending Melson's possible role, but this operation clearly had to extend even above his pay grade.
Maybe the mainstream media realize that there isn't a story here at all.
ReplyDeleteJust because your blood pressure is up and the tiny right-wing kaffee klatsch is gossiping to each other doesn't amount to a news story.
(I'll never forgive Hillary Clinton for running her paranoia in public and feeding the pathetic egos of these morons. They've been puffed up about it ever since.)