{"id":10607,"date":"2011-07-22T13:53:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10607"},"modified":"2011-07-22T13:53:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T17:53:48","slug":"holder%e2%80%99s-justice-department-seeks-distraction-from-atf-gun-scandal-in-news-corp-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10607\/holder%e2%80%99s-justice-department-seeks-distraction-from-atf-gun-scandal-in-news-corp-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Holder\u2019s Justice Department Seeks Distraction from ATF Gun Scandal in News Corp. Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid calls for more information about its failed oversight of a <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1074-operation-castaway-another-atf-gun-scandal- \" target=\"_blank\">growing number of deadly \u201cgun walking\u201d schemes<\/a>, the Department of Justice has found <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111903461104576460393481721896.html\" target=\"_blank\">a new reason to stonewall<\/a> congressional investigators: DOJ needs to divert manpower and resources to investigating Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corp. for possible criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>Even though all of the alleged criminal activity attaching to News Corp. is in the United Kingdom, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is sparing no time in making a public show of his department\u2019s willingness to discover some stateside.<\/p>\n<p>Those investigating the Fast and Furious, Gunrunner, and Castaway scandals \u2013 Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) chief among them \u2013 shouldn\u2019t let Holder lessen the pressure for answers by changing the topic.\u00a0 The message to Holder should be clear: Investigate if you must, but comply with the next information deadline or be in contempt of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid calls for more information about its failed oversight of a growing number of deadly \u201cgun walking\u201d schemes, the Department of Justice has found a new reason to stonewall congressional investigators: DOJ needs to divert manpower and resources to investigating Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corp. for possible criminal charges. Even though all of the alleged criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2613,475,150,1453,498,2902,2900,2901,2642,2641],"class_list":["post-10607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-atf","tag-chuck-grassley","tag-darrell-issa","tag-department-of-justice","tag-eric-holder","tag-news-corp","tag-operation","tag-operation-castaway","tag-operation-fast-and-furious","tag-project-gunrunner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10610,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607\/revisions\/10610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}