{"id":9636,"date":"2011-05-12T12:17:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T16:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9636"},"modified":"2011-05-12T12:17:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T16:17:18","slug":"atf-agent-says-obama-holder-knew-about-gunrunner-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9636\/atf-agent-says-obama-holder-knew-about-gunrunner-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"ATF Agent Says Obama, Holder Knew About Gunrunner Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s no John Dean, but ATF Agent Jay Dobyns is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-seattle\/gunrunner-atf-agent-tells-fox-news-violation-of-our-mandate-took-place\" target=\"_blank\">flatly contradicting<\/a> the President of the United States and the U.S. Attorney General on what they knew and when. \u00a0The controversy involves ATF&#8217;s Project Gunrunner and its offshoot, Operation Fast and Furious. \u00a0Both initiatives deliberately allowed military style firearms to &#8220;walk&#8221; into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, some of which were used to <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/58-immigration\/984-gunrunner-scandal-beating-a-path-to-ag-holders-door-\" target=\"_blank\">kill American citizens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <em>Fox News<\/em>&#8216; Andrew Napolitano, Dobyns said that despite Attorney General Eric Holder&#8217;s congressional testimony that he only found out about the programs &#8220;a few weeks ago,&#8221; both he and the president were aware of the recklessness of each program.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dobyns also made the startling assertion that \u201cthe president and the attorney general are aware of the conclusions that those guys (Newell and Gillett) operate ATF\u2019s business in a reckless and dangerous way, and they did nothing about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During questioning by both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees last week,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-seattle\/holder-on-gunrunner-i-frankly-don-t-know\">Holder insisted <\/a>he did not know about Project Gunrunner\u2019s problems until only \u201ca few weeks ago.\u201d However,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-seattle\/obama-on-border-today-can-he-explain-holder-s-gunrunner-discrepancy\"><strong>this column <\/strong><\/a>reported Tuesday that Sen. Grassley personally delivered two letters about Gunrunner to Holder at a meeting Jan. 31 in his office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The more details that emerge about these programs, the less likely it seems Eric Holder will be back for a second tour of duty at the Justice Department. \u00a0If so, thank goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s no John Dean, but ATF Agent Jay Dobyns is flatly contradicting the President of the United States and the U.S. Attorney General on what they knew and when. \u00a0The controversy involves ATF&#8217;s Project Gunrunner and its offshoot, Operation Fast and Furious. \u00a0Both initiatives deliberately allowed military style firearms to &#8220;walk&#8221; into the hands of [&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":[2613,143,2667,1453,1251,498,2319,2645,2666,1304,2641],"class_list":["post-9636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-atf","tag-barack-obama","tag-cartel","tag-department-of-justice","tag-drugs","tag-eric-holder","tag-firearms","tag-guns","tag-jay-dobyns","tag-mexico","tag-project-gunrunner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636","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=9636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9640,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions\/9640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}