Holder, Blago, Richardson: Triangle of Sleaze by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 It was a rough week for the corruptocracy. White House officials better ho-ho-hold on tight because the sleigh ride isn't going to get any smoother. On Wednesday, disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, D-Ill., received a 14-year prison sentence for scheming to sell...
Read MoreBusy day in Washington today. If you're not near a TV, you can watch the Eric Holder live testimony re. Fast and Furious and other matters here. Here's how C-SPAN previews: New RNC ad blasts F&F cover-up: Update: 10:05am Holder will NOT be sworn in under oath as requested by Rep. Issa. Rep. Smith argues...
Read MoreThe Eric Holder Resignation Bandwagon is growing, and apparently, Eric Holder is upset about it. Matthew Boyle at the Daily Caller has done nice work chronicling the EHRB movement on Capitol Hill. Holder chewed out the publication yesterday. No dice. Boyle reports today that GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia is the first in the...
Read MoreThe Accountability Charade by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 You can't spell "accountability" without "A," "C" and "T." But in Washington, government officials routinely get away with "taking personal responsibility" by mouthing empty words devoid of action. Heads nod in collective agreement that mistakes were made. But heads never roll. The Obama administration has...
Read MoreAttorney General Eric Holder's status as the most shameless corruptocrat in the Obama administration has now been RE-confirmed. Fox News (h/t Christian Adams) reports on the DOJ's cynical exploitation of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and his family that will leave you speechless (or using the most profane speech in your vocabulary): Holder doesn't just...
Read MoreNope, you are not off the hook, AG Eric Holder. Not by a long shot. No way in hell. GOP Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley are back with a new letter demanding more information about the murder of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata and the tactics used while conducting surveillance on...
Read MoreWe first mentioned blog reports on a Project GrenadeWalker scandal last month. (See here). CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson is out with a new report on grenades crossing the border to Mexico. Government officials shrugged at the breaches because they deemed grenades "novelty items." Details: CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, who has reported on this...
Read MoreQuestion the timing. You betcha.
Oh, the cynicism of it all. It reeks. But I'm not fooled. Are you? Via ABC News: Here's the DOJ press release. Note the Mexico connection: The criminal complaint alleges that, from the spring of 2011 to October 2011, Arbabsiar and his Iran-based co-conspirators, including Shakuri of the Qods Force,
Eric Holder is on the hot seat, and GOP Rep. Darrell Issa's cranking up the temperature. Sent this morning: WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa today sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder responding to his letter of October 7. The text of Chairman Issa’s letter to...
Read MoreThe other night on Hannity, I said we need an "Occupy Justice" campaign to protest the deadly corruption and incompetence that have infested our Justice Department from Day One of the Obama administration (vid here). A friend on Twitter wrote back that what we really need is a "Liberate Justice" movement to free Americans of...
Read MorePresident Obama will meet the press at 11am Eastern to peddle his "jobs" bill again. Yes, I hope the reporters bombard him with questions about Solyndra, LightSquared, the green jobs racket, and the union slush funds masquerading as economic recovery. But with so much Fast and Felonious news breaking, this is a prime opportunity to...
Read MoreQuestion: Why does Eric Holder still have a job? Answer: Because he has thrived on incompetence, stonewalling, and corruption his entire career. Why would the outcome of Fast and Furious be any different than all the rest of the scandals that make up his long track record of putting political interests of the public interest...
Read MoreTomorrow, a bombshell book the Obama DOJ doesn't want you to read will be released. Injustice, by former DOJ attorney J. Christian Adams, exposes the "racial agenda of the Obama Justice Department." As I write in my endorsement of the book (published by Regnery): “Christian Adams is a truth-teller, whistle-blower, and American patriot. With great...
Read MoreJust came down: A mixed ruling from a federal judge in Alabama over the state's tough immigration enforcement law. You can read the full decision and analysis here. The parts of the law she upheld can be read here. Also upheld: The provisions authorizing local police to inquire about detainees’ immigration status. Alabama didn't wait...
Read MoreBloodier and bloodier it gets. America, please pay attention. This is the deadliest, most dangerous scandal of the scandal-plagued Obama administration. GOP investigators and House and Senate watchdogs are doing all they can. Whistleblowers inside ATF and gun shop dealers across the country have risked their lives and livelihoods to tell the truth. They need...
Read MoreThe truth is still seeping out, despite Team Obama's best efforts to cover up and shut up the Fast and Furious whistle-blowers. Last week, we noted the latest evidence that the scandal went straight to the top and chronicled the desperate dance of the lemons. In discussing the quiet resignation of U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke...
Read MoreWe've heard from day one of this scandal that it went straight to the top. We've heard nothing but denials. Now, that there's e-mail proof that it did, the White House insists they knew nuttin', absolutely nuttin', about how bad Fast and Furious was. The Los Angeles Times reports today (h/t William Amos): The three...
Read MoreDance of the lemons.
Doin' the Melson shuffle... Both Fox News and the WSJ are out with breaking news about the corruptocracy's latest dance of the lemons. In the wake of the ongoing Fast and Furious scandal, ATF acting head Kenneth Melson will be shuffled around until the heat dies down... Looks like another case
I've been red-flagging this most explosive homeland security scandal for you for more than a month. Independent citizen journalists, inside whistleblowers, and relentless GOP watchdogs on Capitol Hill led by GOP Rep. Darrell Issa and GOP Sen. Charles Grassley have kept up the pressure on the Obama administration to come clean on this deadly, stimulus-funded...
Read MoreYesterday, I brought you up to speed on GOP Sen. Charles Grassley's fight with DOJ over its Project Gunrunner stonewalling. Today, GOP Rep. Darrell Issa warns that DOJ's intransigence could lead to contempt proceedings. He released a letter this morning to acting ATF chief Kenneth Melson. You can read the PDF version here. The key...
Read MoreTick, tick, tick. Another Project Gunrunner disclosure deadline approaches for the Obama Department of Justice. And GOP watchdogs are hammering away at yet another stonewall erected by corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder. Late last week, Sen. Charles Grassley roasted the DOJ for failing to produce documents he requested in February -- and released his own...
Read MoreScroll for updates... Buzz out of Washington this morning is that the Obama administration has signaled it will end efforts to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian trial and instead will use the Gitmo military tribunal system pursued by, yes, George W. Bush. AG Eric Holder is reportedly holding a 2pm Eastern...
Read MoreStop ATF's anti-gun zealots by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 For 30 years, Chicago banned handguns. The crime rate skyrocketed. Murders soared. Gangs blossomed. Desperate city officials even considered calling the National Guard to combat the out-of-control violence that all the "community organizing" in the world couldn't curb. The Supreme Court struck down Chicago's...
Read MoreGraphic via CBS News I've been tied up on other things, but have been following the Project Gunrunner scandal closely -- and delve into the basics in my syndicated column today. To its credit, CBS News gave this deadly Obama culture of corruption nightmare mainstream coverage last month. But it's been brewing on the blogs...
Read MoreWe, the Unhyphenated Americans: Meet My People by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 My fellow Americans, who are "your people"? I ask because U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase "my people" in congressional testimony this week. It was an unmistakably color-coded and exclusionary reference intended to deflect criticism of...
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