Katie Pavlich - Update on DHS IG Report in Fast & Furious

“The Inspector General’s report confirms findings by Congress’ investigation of a near total disregard for public safety in Operation Fast and Furious. Contrary to the denials of the Attorney General and his political defenders in Congress, the investigation found that information in wiretap applications approved by senior Justice Department officials in Washington did contain red flags showing reckless tactics and faults Attorney General Eric Holder’s inner circle for their conduct.

Former Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer who heads the Criminal Division, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein, Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, and Holder’s own Deputy Chief of Staff Monty Wilkinson are all singled out for criticism in the report. It’s time for President Obama to step in and provide accountability for officials at both the Department of Justice and ATF who failed to do their jobs. Attorney General Holder has clearly known about these unacceptable failures yet has failed to take appropriate action for over a year and a half.”
Congressman Darrell Issa

aired March 25, 2013

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Katie Pavlich - On the Way to Fast and Furious Accountability - Round One

The Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Charles Grassley issued a 211-page report and more than 2,000 documents, pinning much of the blame for Operation Fast and Furious on five ATF supervisors (8/1/12). This is the first in a series of three reports expected to be released.

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Katie Pavlich - Complete History of 'Fast and Furious'

Author and Contributing Editor to Townhall Magazine, Katie Pavlich explores the controversial gun supply operation currently under congressional investigation, and discusses her findings with National Journal / White House Correspondent, Major Garrett. Her first book "Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and It's Shamless Cover-Up" has become a best seller.

June 2012 - Interview Length 45:49

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Steve Green - Hair of the Dog: Shut Up Racist! Fast & Furious Defenders Charge Racism

Are you a racist if you want answers about the Fast & Furious gun walking scandal? Find out on this Hair of the Dog as Stephen Green brings you the Sunday coverage of the scandal rocking Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama Justice Department.

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Katie Pavlich - Fast and Furious Gun Scandal - Is This the Obama Administration's Greatest Cover-Up?

Author and journalist Katie Pavlich talks to Glenn Reynolds about the Fast and Furious firearms scandal that resulted in the murder of a Border Patrol agent. Pavlich's research shows that the ATF put guns in the hands of criminals, but never planned to track these weapons. Was the Obama Administration using Fast and Furious to undermine the Second Amendment? Find out.

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Katie Pavlich - Fast and Furious: A Botched Operation or Cover-Up?

Fast and Furious: A Botched Operation or Cover-Up?

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Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up [Hardcover]

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Katie Pavlich on Her New Book About Fast and Furious

Cam Edwards talks to Katie Pavlich from Townhall about her new book, Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up.

April 18, 2012

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Fast and Furious Roundtable with Katie Pavlich and Matthew Boyle

Katie Pavlich from Townhall.com and Matthew Boyle from The Daily Caller join Cam Edwards in studio for a Fast and Furious Roundtable - NRA News.

September 21, 2011

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Katie Pavlich - Latest on Fast and Furious: ATF Director Moved to Office of Legal Policy

Cam Edwards talks to Katie Pavlich from Townhall.com - NRA News

August 30, 2011

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THP Videos - Fast and Furious - Designed for Gun Control

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, questions Attorney General Eric Holder during the full committee hearing "Fast & Furious: Management Failures at the Department of Justice" on February 2, 2012.

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Jeannie DeAngelis - ‘Fast and Furious’: What if Eric Holder is Telling the Truth?

Originally posted at Big Government

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In light of the “Fast and Furious” fiasco, the Obama administration is embarrassing itself whenever it tries to convince the public that on issues like healthcare and immigration reform, the government is well equipped to ensure the safety of the American people.

Presently, a scandal surrounding the White House alleges that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) purposely allowed Mexican drug cartel gang members to gain possession of illegal weaponry on the US side of the border. Despite his denials, Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice are suspected of knowing about the effort whose intent was to track gunrunning kingpins by way of a “tactic known as ‘letting guns walk.’”

Gun walking involved the feds standing by and doing nothing while weapons such as “an antiaircraftmachine gun, a sniper rifle and a grenade launcher” were loaded into trunks by suspected Mexican straw purchasers. The illegal acquisition of the weapons was overlooked, with the intent to use the guns as a pseudo-GPS system to track down and overtake dangerous Mexican drug cartels.

The problem is, those same guns eventually turned up at murder scenes alongside the bodies of two dead Border Patrol agents, Jamie Zapata and Brian Terry, not to mention the innumerable Mexicans killed in drug wars with guns smuggled in from Arizona.

In a letter to members of Congress, Eric Holder defended his lack of familiarity with the controversial undertaking, maintaining that he had “no recollection of knowing about the operation, called ‘Fast and Furious,’ or of hearing its name prior to the public controversy about it.”

Some members of Congress believe Eric Holder had prior knowledge of the gun-walking operation. If the Attorney General continues to maintain he was unaware of the debacle, it must be because he believes that plausible deniability protects and benefits the political future of both himself and the President of the United States.

But Mr. Holder is misguided, because while it would be horrifying to find out he possessed foreknowledge of the failed operation, what would be even worse for big government progressives would be to find out that the Attorney General is actually telling the truth.

Holder not knowing about “Fast and Furious” proves that an Obama appointee’s poor administrative oversight cost the lives of two Americans who died in service to their country, which underscores the potential for massive bureaucratic failures now and in the future.

Both Obama’s and Holder’s attempts to deny complicity serve to verify that every endeavor this administration undertakes threatens more and more innocent people, either through outright incompetency or shameless disregard for human life.

Eric Holder’s actions and denials may be an attempt at feigning innocence, but such efforts undermine Obama’s unrelenting attempts to convince and reassure the nation to entrust government bureaucrats with even larger life-and-death decisions.

Think about it: How can an administration vow to be competent enough to handle the administrative oversight of health care reform for a population of 300 million people if it can’t monitor a small number of guns?

Whether the Attorney General gave his approbation or he didn’t, to track criminals by employing the harebrained idea that murderers could be traced when dead bodies float up in the Rio Grande ultimately affects the credibility of Obama’s future big government plans for America.

The felonious lunacy of “Fast and Furious” exposes the Obama administration’s pervasive impotence on every level. Regardless of how President Obama tries to give surety to the American public, it’s obvious that a group unable to tie their own shoes is in no position to run a health care program slated to cost trillions and affect hundreds of millions Americans over the next 10 years.

Add to the President’s refusal to address dangerous open borders; his favoritism toward illegal aliens living unlawfully in America; and the pursuit of repeated lawsuits against states trying to defend themselves against hostile invasion, and the situation gets still more precarious.

Holder and Obama testifying to being clueless about a poorly thought-out, relatively small-scale yet incredibly dangerous operation indicates that any Obama endeavor larger than “Fast and Furious” could eventually end up exponentially costing more lives. So how can this administration vouch for immigration reform involving 13 million illegal aliens when they were unable to maintain control over 2,000 illegal guns?

Thus, as Darrell Issa (R-CA) presses Eric Holder to explain the tragedy of how two American border agents ended up in body bags, he may not realize he is doing the nation an even greater service. By getting to the bottom of the “Fast and Furious” controversy, Congressman Issa is reaffirming for a country under siege by an administration whose actions mimic those of armed enemies, that everything the Obama administration touches turns to disaster and one way or another ultimately ends up threatening our lives.

Judging by the numbers alone, “Fast and Furious” proves that an administration who failed to control a program that involved a couple of thousand guns should not be trusted with the healthcare oversight for 300 million Americans. Nor should Obama continue to be allowed to falsely assure the American public that 13 million illegal aliens pose little or no danger to our nation or its people. Lest we forget, gun walking was supposed to prevent crime, not cause it.

If the good intentions surrounding the giving of guns to criminals failed so miserably, it stands to reason that extending government largesse in the form of health care and immigration reform also carries with it the explosive potential to result in the “Fast and Furious” destruction of the entire nation.

Jeannie DeAngelis

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Darrell Issa Talks Fast and Furious Fallout

Chris Wallace Interviewed Darrell Issa on 'Fast and Furious'.

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WALLACE: Congressman, I understand that you are going to issue a new set of subpoenas to the attorney general this week. About what?

ISSA: About "Fast and Furious" and basically, at this point, about why are they denying knowing about something that they were briefed on? Exactly when the American people want to know how did it happen? Understand, we didn't start off going after the attorney general or Lanny Breuer or anyone else in justice. We started off knowing that Brian Terry was dead, that a lot of --

WALLACE: The U.S. border patrol agent.

ISSA: The U.S. border patrol agent. And that a lot of weapons have been let to walk.

After that, we started being told things like by the Justice Department designated official that we never let weapons walk.

Now, we have literally e-mails in which they are concerned about so many walking and you said something and I don't mean to correct you -- but to expand. We didn't just have a few not be tracked. The whole program was about not tracking them until they were found in the scene of crimes. And they didn't just allow. They facilitated just one guy buy, one straw buy, over 700 weapons.

WALLACE: So, specifically, what are your subpoenas about?

ISSA: We want to know what and when they knew it. But more importantly, we have to understand -- at what level of the authorization really come? It wasn't an ATF operation. They were part of that. It was a joint operation in which DEA knew more than ATF.

October 9, 2011

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Breaking News - 10/09/11
Forty high-powered assault weapons — apparently lost under the 'Fast and Furious' gun surveillance program — are reportedly found in the Mexican home of the alleged leader of one of the largest drug cartels in the world.

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Ten Arizona Sheriffs Call for Special Counsel to Probe Fast and Furious

Ginny Simone talks to Pinal County, Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu - NRA News.

Special Prosecutor must be appointed.

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Doug Giles - The Top 10 Signs Eric Holder Might Be Lying about Fast and Furious

During last Thursday’s White House press conference, President Obama was asked a cruel question regarding whether or not Attorney General Eric Holder knew anything about the ATF deliberately moving thousands of U.S. guns to Mexican drug lords in a nefarious op from hell called “Operation Fast and Furious.” Obama, without batting an eye, forcefully responded, “Who’s Eric Holder?”

After 45 minutes of grilling from the press corps and showing President Obama pictures of himself on vacation with Holder and YouTube vids of the two of them driving bumper cars together at the Chicago Fairgrounds, Barack finally admitted that he did know of an Eric Holder and that he believed that this Holder gentleman, whom he barely knows, was completely ignorant of the details regarding a huge ass gun running project carried out by our federal government across our southern border which placed firearms into the multitudinous hands of many wannabe Mexican Tony Montanas.

Y’know, sometimes it gets so hard to tell if folks are lying to us that we have to look for telltale signs of deception. Since it’s getting so difficult to determine the facts regarding Holder’s complicity and knowledge of the Fast and Furious scandal, I jotted down ten observations I’ve gleaned from Mr. Holder that make me think he might possibly be reconstructing the truth.

Herewith are the top 10 signs, in David Letterman fashion, that Eric Holder might have lied to congress and to America about Operation Fast and Furious:

10. His greyhound dog is named “Fast” and his Chihuahua is named “Furious.”

9. His voice cracks like Justin Bieber’s whenever he discusses the topic.

8. When he’s constipated, Fast & Furious is his go-to laxative.

7. Every Halloween he dresses like Paul Walker.

6. His right eye violently twitches every time Darrell Issa walks into the room or his name gets mentioned.

5. Roger Clemens tweeted, “Holder’s good. Real good …”

4. His nose grew 19 inches when he claimed no prior knowledge.

3. When he said he didn’t know about F&F his pants burst into flames. It’s true.

2. He keeps trying to change the subject to Solyndra.

1. King Samir Shabazz just stated on his blog, “Of course he knew, you stupid white cracker b*tches!”

Doug Giles

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Are More Damaging Findings from 'Fast and Furious' About to Surface?

"Well, I would say there have been some pretty incredible developments in the past week. Also, documents we haven't even had time to report on all of them.

They are very sensitive documents and allegations going around. Many of them we haven't reported yet because we need to get more confirmation of them.

But what you see on the surface that we do report in our stories is really only a part of what may be going on and we may be reporting the future when we can get confirmation."
Sharyl Attkisson - CBS News Investigative Reporter

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Arizona Sheriff Explains Fast And Furious

"It is insanity that they [ATF/DOJ] could try and rationalize this and still withhold and try to cover up information that implicates them. What I learned just as a regular police officer is that any body who is involved in assisting other people in crimes, that drive the get away car or give guns to people who know they’re going to commit crimes, and even if they didn’t know they would end up killing somebody, guess what we call those people? Accomplices, and they’re charged as well with the same crimes as the people who pulled the trigger."
National Sheriff of the Year, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu

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Up to this point, senior officials within the Obama Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Arizona U.S. Attorney's office have denied knowing about or authorizing Operation Fast and Furious until March of 2011. In fact, they have done everything possible to cover up the operation in order to avoid responsibility for the lethal consequences of the program.

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September, 2011

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Eric Holder's Hell Week - More Fast & Furious Fallout

Cam Edwards talks to Michael Walsh from the New York Post - NRA News.

If Darrell Issa hands the 'Fast and Furious' case over to a 'Special Prosecutor' the Congressional Oversight Committee will be effectively shut down.

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GrenadeGate - Cam Edwards talks to Katie Pavlich from Townhall.com

Katie Pavlich was on NRA News' Cam & Company last night (September 6, 2011) to discuss the latest developments in the Arizona U.S. Attorney's Office, ATF and the Obama Justice Department.

September6, 2011

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White House Cover-up Makes Continuation of Fast and Furious Investigation Imperative

Cam Edwards talks to Dr. AWR Hawkins from BigGovernment.com - NRA News

September 6, 2011

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Darrell Issa - Still Many 'Fast and Furious' Questions

Rep. Darrell Issa sounds off on reassignments and firings tied to the botched gun-running program.

August 30, 2011

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