J. Patrick Cunningham took the 5th and is now running away to the private sector. Congressman Darrell Issa is now turning his attention to Federal Prosecutor Michael Morrissey to testify just prior to Eric Holder once again coming before Congress to answer for the deadly debacle that was Fast and Furious.
Morrissey worked directly under the supervision of now-outgoing U.S. Attorney J. Patrick Cunningham. The swift departure of Cunningham – a man the Eric Holder DOJ indicated should be the primary point-man for any and all questions pertaining to Fast and Furious, has only added to the appearance of some serious and ongoing cover-up manipulations by Attorney General Holder. If Michael Morrissey were to plead the 5th as well instead of answer questions from the Congressional committee, this appearance would most certainly be further solidified.
Eric Holder is scheduled to appear again before Congress on Fast and Furious next Tuesday.
Remember what White House Insider stated on record with Ulsterman back in May, I believe? He said something along the lines of~~
We’ve got Holder! He’s GONE or He’s FIRED! It’s just a matter of time.
Also WHI stated at some point that this Fast and Furious case will all trickle out and will heat up around Obama’s campaign for the presidency.
So far, WHI has been right on this!
Keep slugging those balls out of the park, WHI!
As this F and F fiasco plays out along with the eligibility issue of Obama in the Georgia courts … I find Soros” three interviews in the last three days to be the back drop story that should worry us…
Are his interviews the gleeful told-you-so-cackle of the devil before our dollar will collapse as the Marxist globalist have worked so diligently for in their quest to kill capitalism,the free enterprise system, along with liberty and the USA…
I would really like the WSI to have a cogent, less cryptic conversation with UM.
Buy storage food and ammo folks.
I’ve wondered similar to your thinking America the Beautiful on Soro’s. He is out there warning of possible civil unrest leading to violent riots. The threat of EU’s demise and what else was there? Something evil this way comes, yet trying to determine exactly what that is, is in itself thought provoking. What I have garnered thus far is, the preparation for violent protest brought on by a global economic meltdown. I think Soro’s will cause this as he has done so before. He will intentional do so in order to bring about the violent protest in order for Obie One to declare Martial Law right before Election Day. At this point and time could he call off elections due to national security threat? Say if Iran were to shut oil off to EU or close the Strait of Hormuz or both? The comment he made in his campaign speech (SOTU) has disturbed me greatly. He said, “That’s why I’ve asked this Congress to GRANT ME THE AUTHORITY to CONSOLIDATE THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY so that our Government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the American people.” What does that mean?
Soros wants the dollar to crash and everyone to panic and he’s foaming at the mouth waiting with glee to cash in on the destruction.
…and the fema camps are staffed. imho
Nobody staffing nothing doesn’t make a staff.complete.
I’m not making this up.
http://gulagbound.com/23848/fema-camps-the-seeking-of-contractors-and-personnel-to-staff-and-confine/
By the way, a huge convoy of armored personnel carriers passed North to South in CA around 01/19.
That was very strange.
Aside from that, LA had a military exercise last night.
That is almost unheard of, as far as I remember.
I saw the video of the APCs too. Weird. Regarding L.A., are they practicing for something they suspect or know is coming? One wonders. Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgtcUxrX_x0
A preliminary to Chinese invasion, or anticipating retaliation by the angry Mexican hordes the administration ushered across the borders last year?
I could use some help with packing , shipping and errands for my business but while he seems capable of the work frankly, I don’t trust the man.
Keep an eye on the “John Adams Project” cover-up as well. Holder appointed U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to once again protect him and his pals.
ACLU and the Gitmo Leak of CIA Agent Photos
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/aclu_and_the_gitmo_leak_of_cia_agent_photos.html#ixzz1kcncirCt
Tony West confirmed in March 2009. His wife, Maya Harris – Executive Dir at ACLU. Look up “maya harris” in youtube. She announced suit against Boeing subsidiary for providing transportation for waterboarding.
May I ask why the excessive, for no good reason, censorship (in my view)??
Whistleblower, I pay attention. You get it. This takes us back to Chicago. Again, look into the Fitzgerald appointment. Who gained by Sen Fitzgerald’s unexpected retirement? Who appointed US Attorney Fitzgerald? The foot in the door to inflame the country against GW and scooting libby under the bus…
January 26, 2012
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January 26, 2012
ACLU and the Gitmo Leak of CIA Agent Photos
By Lee Cary & Marty Watters
In a May 22, 2010 letter to President Obama, Congressman Todd Akin (R.-2nd Dist, Missouri) called for a “full and thorough investigation” into how the identities of two CIA covert operatives were leaked to the ACLU.
Forty-seven other members of Congress co-signed Congressman Akin’s letter.
After one year of the DOJ seemingly taking no action, and then two years of investigating, on January 23, 2012, former CIA employee John Kiriakou was charged with leaking the identities of two CIA officers to three journalists, who then gave the information to an investigator working in the ACLU’s John Adams Project.
Photographs of the CIA officers were obtained and inserted into a group of non-CIA personnel photos, and then given to detainees. The detainees were to pick out the faces of their interrogators whom they recognized.
So does Kiriakou’s arrest end the investigation? Not for Congressman Akin. He believes there are more concerns attached to this case.
When, on January 24, 2012, Akin’s office was contacted for a comment concerning the arrest of John Kiriakou, Press Secretary Steve Taylor responded, “Bottom line: Congressman Akin does not believe all of the concerns have been addressed.”
Here’s a brief review of the story to refresh your memory.
It began when the ACLU started a program to provide legal assistance to Gitmo detainees. Here’s how the ACLU defined their initiative:
[T]he American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers have taken on the task of assembling defense teams to be available to assist in the representation of those Guantánamo detainees who have been charged under the Military Commissions Act, subject to the detainees’ consent. More than 30 lawyers have agreed to work on this important endeavor[.]
The ACLU efforts on behalf of Gitmo detainees became national news in mid March 2009.
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has tapped the Justice Department’s most feared prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, to lead a sensitive investigation into whether defense lawyers at Guantánamo Bay compromised the identities of covert CIA officers. The probe was triggered by the discovery last year of about 20 color photographs of CIA officials in the cell of Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, an alleged financier of the 9/11 attacks, say three current and former government officials who asked not to be identified talking about an ongoing case.
You can read the 26-page Criminal Complaint, dated January 23, 2012, issued from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, here. It offers a clear and straightforward telling of the story.
Among the most sensitive information leaked concerned the CIA’s Rendition, Detention and Interrogation Program, and the capture and interrogation of Abu Zubaydah.
After 32 pages of photographs, which included those of the CIA officers, were found in the spring of 2009 in the possession of “certain high value detainees” held at Gitmo, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald was, on March 8, 2010, appointed as special attorney to “supervise the investigation.”
The ACLU’s goal was to identify the CIA personnel involved in the interrogations of their Gitmo clients, in order to discover how information from the detainees was obtained. According to the ACLU’s website:
The military commissions’ authorization of the use of coerced evidence possibly derived from torture, secret evidence, and hearsay is unconstitutional and counter to American traditions of fairness and justice.
Following the arrest of Kiriakou, other questions remain, including:
Why did journalists pass information to an ACLU investigator?
Have these journalists been interviewed by federal investigators?
Who are the journalists, and for what news outlet(s) do they work? (Note that New York Times reporter Scott Shane revealed the identity of CIA employee Deuce Martinez in this June 22, 2008 article.)
Are we to believe that, as the Criminal Complaint document states, “the [government] investigative team found no evidence the defense attorneys transmitting the photographs were aware of, much less disclosed, the identities of the persons depicted in particular photographs or otherwise disclosed any classified matters associated with certain of those [CIA] individuals to the detainees”? So the ACLU attorneys gave double-blind photo lineups to Gitmo detainees without knowing which pictures displayed the CIA officers? Really? How would they know if the detainee chose a CIA officer if they didn’t know which were their photos?
Did Kiriakou pass any classified information directly to any ACLU attorney(s)?
Who tasked the ACLU investigator to secure photos and personal information concerning the CIA officers? And were any laws broken in that endeavor?
Were the identities of any other CIA personnel leaked to the ACLU?
And, lastly, does the apprehension of Kiriakou end this investigation?
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