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The City of Phoenix taxpayers money was used trying to keep this information out of the hands of Judicial Watch.
JW had to sue Phoenix to get this information, and Phoenix vigorously defended its right to keep the information away from us, and from Issa's committee.
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The top deputy to Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation on Thursday amid revelations that Operation Fast and Furious scandal guns were used to harm Americans in Phoenix in 2013, a development top congressional
Republicans say President Obama’s administration sought to cover up.
Documents released by conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch—and put forward by Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)—show that an assault rifle purchased as part of Fast and Furious was used in a Phoenix-area crime in July 2013 that left two people wounded.
Part of a police report shows the rifle’s serial number, 1977DX1654. Judicial Watch obtained the documents from a lawsuit it filed against the city of Phoenix, Judicial Watch v. City of Phoenix, to get officials to release the documents.
But, but , but Obama received a Transparency Award. Perhaps the award for for Obama's in your face lies?
EH's deputy left not because of F&F, but because he wanted to spend more time with his family!
from huff po
"WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama accepted an award for making the government more open and transparent – presented to him behind closed doors with no media coverage or public access allowed. The discrepancy between the honor and the circumstances under which it was delivered bothered open-government advocates in attendance, they said Thursday. They were even more perturbed when they discovered later that the meeting hadn't even been listed on Obama's public schedule, so there was no way for anyone to know about it. "To have such a meeting not be transparent is the height of irony. How absurd can that be?" said one participant, Gary Bass, executive director of OMB Watch, which keeps tabs on the White House Office of Management and Budget."
Eric's having a little whine fest now about the Texas voter ID law decision. That darn Supreme Court getting in way of the O administration agenda again!
Still collect that fat pension. Even the Nazis knew to have the cooperation of the Vichy French Civil Service you let them have their pensions.
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