No Outcry

No Outcry by Bill Wilson

Does anybody remember the ex president's Attorney General Eric Holder? You know, the AG who refused to enforce the laws?

It started with refusing to allow off shore drilling, a law that Congress passed to open up energy exploration off the Gulf Coast.

Then there was the Defense of Marriage Act that the president and the AG decided not to enforce or defend.

Also call to memory that Black Panthers were allowed to intimidate white voters from casting their Constitutionally guaranteed vote.

And there was the contempt of Congress by Holder for refusing to testify on his gun running scheme that ended up getting border agents killed.

Nothing to see here. No one could get the media interested.

On September 7, 2011 Holder told reporters that reports were untrue linking his department and the White House with the decision to sell guns to Mexican drug runners through Operation Fast and Furious.

He claimed they were politically motivated, saying, "The notion that somehow or other this thing reaches into the upper levels of the Justice Department is something that. ... I don't think is supported by the facts. It's kind of something I think certain members of Congress would like to see, the notion that somehow or other high-level people in the department were involved."

This is an outright denial that he (Holder) or any other high official knew about the operation, but it was boasted about even on the DOJ website.

On April 2, 2009, Holder gave a speech to the Mexico/United States Arms Trafficking Conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico. His remarks at the time were actually posted on the US Department of Justice's website. He said, "Last week, our administration launched a major new effort to break the backs of the cartels. My department is committing 100 new ATF personnel to the Southwest border in the next 100 days to supplement our ongoing Project Gunrunner..."

Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious were synonymous. CBS News, for example, reported on February 23, 2011 the murder of border agent Brian Terry by a drug cartel thug using an assault rifle traced to Holder's operation.

I detailed several reports of Holder's illegal/unethical antics.

Didn't hear a peep from the mainstream news media calling for his resignation.

Today AG Jeff Sessions has recused himself from 2016 campaign investigations because he met with the Russian Ambassador as part of his job as Senator.

Democrats used this fake news story to call for Sessions' ouster.

Romans 16:18 describes these people: "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple."

Indeed they are deceiving the hearts of the simple.

There must be more to the Democrats and Russia that Democrats fear will come out with Sessions on the job. Meantime, the news media is showing its inability to report real news, a failure of its First Amendment right.