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Fast and Furious focusing on feds in Arizona
Accusations against Sheriff Joe timed to divert attention?
WND
Jerome R. Corsi
1/23/2012
Excerpt:
"This is the first of a two-part series of articles on accusations that the corruption at the heart of Fast and Furious traces back to Eric Holder’s office and the Arizona branch of the U.S. Department of Justice."
"Evidence is mounting that responsibility for the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal traces back to corruption in the Arizona branch of the U.S. Department of Justice, which reports to Attorney General Eric Holder.
On Friday, the House Oversight Committee was shocked when Patrick J. Cunningham, the head of the criminal division of the U.S. attorney’s office in Arizona, announced he would take the Fifth Amendment rather than testify regarding Fast and Furious.
Under the operation, the Obama administration allowed weapons to be sold to suspected Mexican drug operatives so they could be traced to the higher echelons of the cartels. But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which ran the operation, lost track of hundreds of weapons and many have been linked to crimes, including the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
The Fast and Furious focus on Arizona comes at a time when Holder’s Justice Department has alleged the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, under the direction of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has engaged in a systematic policy of denying Hispanics their civil rights under federal law.
With Cunningham’s refusal to testify before Congress, it now appears any prosecution of Arpaio will be complicated by the Obama administration’s need to defend a suspect Arizona DOJ operation.
Ultimately, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez, who directs the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, will have to show that he has more than anecdotal evidence to substantiate his charges against Arpaio. At the same time, Holder will have to explain why U.S. attorneys in Arizona appear to be running for cover rather than defending their part in Fast and Furious.
WND previously has reported that Perez’s Civil Rights Division appears to have launched a political campaign against Arpaio in retaliation for the sheriff’s decision to constitute a Cold Case Posse to investigate Obama’s eligibility to be president under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution.
Now, some critics see Perez’s allegations against Arpaio as an effort to relieve the heat that top DOJ brass in Washington knew was about to descend on the department’s Arizona branch under Patrick Cunningham and Dennis Burke.
Burke was the first U.S. attorney in Arizona to become a casualty in the Fast and Furious investigation."
View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/fast-and-...ds-in-arizona/
Accusations against Sheriff Joe timed to divert attention?
WND
Jerome R. Corsi
1/23/2012
Excerpt:
"This is the first of a two-part series of articles on accusations that the corruption at the heart of Fast and Furious traces back to Eric Holder’s office and the Arizona branch of the U.S. Department of Justice."
"Evidence is mounting that responsibility for the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal traces back to corruption in the Arizona branch of the U.S. Department of Justice, which reports to Attorney General Eric Holder.
On Friday, the House Oversight Committee was shocked when Patrick J. Cunningham, the head of the criminal division of the U.S. attorney’s office in Arizona, announced he would take the Fifth Amendment rather than testify regarding Fast and Furious.
Under the operation, the Obama administration allowed weapons to be sold to suspected Mexican drug operatives so they could be traced to the higher echelons of the cartels. But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which ran the operation, lost track of hundreds of weapons and many have been linked to crimes, including the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
The Fast and Furious focus on Arizona comes at a time when Holder’s Justice Department has alleged the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, under the direction of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has engaged in a systematic policy of denying Hispanics their civil rights under federal law.
With Cunningham’s refusal to testify before Congress, it now appears any prosecution of Arpaio will be complicated by the Obama administration’s need to defend a suspect Arizona DOJ operation.
Ultimately, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez, who directs the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, will have to show that he has more than anecdotal evidence to substantiate his charges against Arpaio. At the same time, Holder will have to explain why U.S. attorneys in Arizona appear to be running for cover rather than defending their part in Fast and Furious.
WND previously has reported that Perez’s Civil Rights Division appears to have launched a political campaign against Arpaio in retaliation for the sheriff’s decision to constitute a Cold Case Posse to investigate Obama’s eligibility to be president under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution.
Now, some critics see Perez’s allegations against Arpaio as an effort to relieve the heat that top DOJ brass in Washington knew was about to descend on the department’s Arizona branch under Patrick Cunningham and Dennis Burke.
Burke was the first U.S. attorney in Arizona to become a casualty in the Fast and Furious investigation."
View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/fast-and-...ds-in-arizona/