What is the FBI thinking? The obvious stonewalling going on over the Gun Runner scandal is terribly shortsighted of them. The proper response is to disinfect the whole thing with sunlight, purge the folks that came up with the boneheaded manuever, no matter how high it goes, and start to heal their severly injured credibility. This is asinine that obstruction occurred for more than a week or two. What are they thinking? More and more people are going to be suspicious and uncooperative.
Add this to the depravations of decades by the ATF (now a subsidiary of the DoJ, which controls the FBI).
Add this to the execution of a CCW guy outside a Costco by the local 5-0
Add this to the Canton Ohio patrolman threatening to promote himself to an angry, roidy, version of Judge Dredd (and Stallone was pretty roidy...)
Add this to the serial molesters at the TSA, not even kissing us first before having their way with us.
At the very least, the FBI should be concerned about their carefully cultivate PR going down the terlet. Why aren't the honest FBI types up in arms over this fiasco? If I were them I'd offer up a few scapegoats in the Bureau, including the AG, and then sell the majority of the ATF down the river just to preserve my rep. If I was an FBI cynic, at least.
UH, I wouldn't put the FBI on a Pedestal. Remember Ruby Ridge? And who sent the Tanks into the Waco Compound? Federal Police Forces have a nasty tendency to claim "We were Just Following Orders, Mein Herr", when the Politicians appoint Scumbags as their Bosses.
ReplyDeleteKinda like the way the Canton, Ohio P.D. is run.
Or the Pima County Sheriff's Office.
I'm not putting them on a pedestal, but I do assume that they would want themselves put on a pedestal. They didn't take the lessons of J Edgar to heart.
ReplyDeleteTo me, this dogged resistance to the investigation is the most obvious sign that Fast and Furious goes all the way to the Oval Office. They CANNOT cooperate because the President will go down if they do. They have no choice but to circle the wagons and fight to the last man.
ReplyDeleteThere is no other reasonable explanation for why the DOJ is being so unreasonable...
Ah... The Fibbies are pretty well locked down. Even giving an off the record interview is grounds for an IA investigation.
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