Philosophers and poets have argued for at least three millennia about who is more valuable. Poets claim they tell tales that inspire men to do things they would otherwise never accomplish. But philosophers argue that this requires the acceptance of obvious fantasies, thus leading men away from the truth. Judging by what Attorney General Eric Holder has been asking Congress and the American people to believe regarding what and when he knew about Operation Fast and Furious, we think he is telling tales that lead away from the truth.
Fast and Furious is the Justice Department program that allowed thousands of weapons to be sold in 2009 to known buyers for Mexican drug cartels in the hope that the tainted guns would show up at future crime scenes. The department’s cockeyed theory was that the “walked” weapons would enable authorities to tie the drug bosses to specific crimes in the United States and Mexico. Unfortunately, the bureaucrats lost track of the weapons until it was too late.
Now Holder wants Americans to believe an obvious fantasy, namely that he didn’t know about Fast and Furious until witch-hunting House Republicans made it a highly charged partisan issue a few months ago. But after reviewing new emails made public by the Justice Department last Friday, it seems clear that accepting Holder’s claim at face value would be credulous in the extreme.
He is scheduled to appear Thursday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The first question for Holder will concern a series of emails sent in the immediate aftermath of the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry on Dec. 15, 2010. The emails make clear that Monty Wilkinson, then Holder’s deputy chief of staff, was informed by U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke of Terry’s death, and that weapons found on the scene were bought in Phoenix and were among those in “the investigation we were going to talk about.”
Other documents obtained by the committee make clear that the investigation in question was Fast and Furious. The emails also establish that Wilkinson and other senior Justice Department officials in Washington were briefed on the program shortly after Terry’s murder. In other words, within days, if not hours, of Terry’s death, it was known at the highest levels of the Justice Department that he was killed by guns sold with the full knowledge of federal officials who then lost track of them.
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Obama’s Executive Cabinet members:
also CFR info & short list of notable members
In the news – Haley Barbour(CFR)
• Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi Is Criticized on Wave of Pardons New York Times – Jan 10 07:08am
• Haley Barbour pardons nearly 200, including killers, in final days as Mississippi
In order of succession to the Presidency:
Vice President of the United States
Joseph R. Biden CFR/88
Department of State
Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (Pres.) BB/CFR/RS/TC – See Hillary’s speaches at CFR meeting on Youtube
Department of the Treasury
Secretary Timothy F. Geithner BB/CFR/TC/09
Department of Defense
Secretary Leon E. Panetta? Need to research his background
Department of Justice
Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. CFR
Department of Agriculture
Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack CFR
Department of Commerce
Secretary John E. Bryson CFR/TC/88
Department of Veterans Affairs
Secretary Eric K. Shinseki CFR
Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Janet A. Napolitano CFR
More positions filled by CFR:
White House Chief of Staff
Bill Daley CFR
Florida Representative and DNC Chair
Debbie Wasserman Schultz. CFR
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Ambassador Susan Rice CFR
Source: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/cfrall1.htm#d
http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/roundtable/CFRA-Elist.html
The CFR fancies itself to represent a diverse range cultural and political interests, but its members are predominantly wealthy males, and their policies reflect their elitist biases. The CFR attempts to maintain the charade of diversity via its Non-Attribution Rule, which allows members to engage in “a free, frank, and open exchange of ideas” without fear of having any of their statements attributed in public. The flip side of this, obviously, is a dark cloud of secrecy which envelopes the CFR’s activities.
CFR meetings are usually held in secret and are restricted to members and very select guests. All members are free to express themselves at meetings unrestrained, because the Non-Attribution Rule guarantees that “others will not attribute or characterize their statements in public media forums or knowingly transmit them to persons who will,” according to the Council on Foreign Relations’ 1992 Annual Report.
The report goes on to forbid any meeting participant “to publish a speaker’s statement in attributed form in any newspaper; to repeat it on television or radio, or on a speaker’s platform, or in a classroom; or to go beyond a memo of limited circulation.”
The end result is that the only information the public has on the CFR is the information they release for public consumption, which should send up red flags for anyone who understands the immense effect that CFR directives have on America’s foreign policy. The public knows what the CFR wants the public to know about the CFR, and nothing more. There is one hole in the fog of secrecy, however: a book entitled Tragedy and Hope, written by an “insider” named Dr. Carroll Quigley, mentor of Bill Clinton
Holder is a serial perjurer who has been afforded unprecedented opportunities to amend his lies before Congressional committees. If any one of us “common” Americans had perpetrated the lies that he has we would be getting outfitted for our prison jumpsuits by now. I hold Congress responsible for allowing this reprehensible contempt for their branch of government to persist.
The Obama administration has made congress irrelevant, he has passed executive orders that are paramount to a dictator, he has lied incessantly to the American people, and had spent $millions for vacations and demands that the taxpayers scale back. He has the liberal press fauning all over themselves, and has exacerbated the war between the have’s and have not’s. He has refused to obey a judge’s order to lift the oil drilling moratorium, and is solely responsible for killing 20,000 plus jobs directly and spawning thousands more indirectly in the interim. The same goes for the pipeline that would in the long run reduce our oil dependence from countries that use our money to build up an arsenal against us. If Canada sells the oil to China, as rumored then it is projected gas will exceed $5.00 gallon. Talk about your “High crimes and misdemeanors,” huh!!!