Obama's Enforcer (26 page)

25
.  Ian Swanson and Kevin Bogardus, “As Champion of the Black Farmer, Obama Could Win Southern Votes,”
Hill
, Sept. 19, 2007.

26
.  “Department of Justice and USDA Announces Historic Settlement in Lawsuit by Black Farmers Claiming Discrimination by USDA,” Press Release, U.S. Department of Justice, Feb. 18, 2010.

27
.  LaFraniere, “U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination.”

28
.  Ibid.

29
.  Ibid.

30
.  Ibid.

31
.  “Senators Urge Settlement in USDA Discrimination Lawsuit by Hispanic Farmers,” Press Release of Senator Robert Menendez, June 20, 2009.

32
.  Joe Garofoli, “Obama Power Broker New Face of Black Politics,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, March 1, 2008.

33
.  LaFraniere, “U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination.”

34
.  Ibid.

35
.  For a discussion of this, see Conor Friedersdorf, “How Did Progressive Journalists Get Pigford So Wrong?,”
Atlantic
, May 2013.

36
.  “Oversight of the United States Department of Justice,” Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, May 15, 2013.

37
.  “Pigford II Settlement,” Government Accountability Office, GAO-13-69R, Dec. 7, 2012, pp. 2–3.

38
.  LaFraniere, “U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination.”

39
.  Rich Lowry, “The Obama/Clinton Reparations,” National Review, April 13, 2013.

Chapter 6: The Holder Rule of Ignorance and Deceit

  
1
.  “DOJ's
Quid Pro Quo
with St. Paul: How Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez Manipulated Justice and Ignored the Rule of Law,” Joint Staff Report, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, April 15, 2013.

  
2
.  Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Serial No. 113-43, May 15, 2013, p. 35.

  
3
.  Ibid., p. 36.

  
4
.  Ibid., p. 110.

  
5
.  Ibid., p. 111.

  
6
.  Matthew Boyle, “Emails Reveal Justice Dept. Regularly Enlists Media Matters to Spin Press,”
Daily Caller
, Sept. 18, 2012.

  
7
.  Jeff Poor, “CBS Reporter: White House, DOJ Reps ‘Yelled' and ‘Screamed' at Her over ‘Fast and Furious' Scandal,”
Daily Caller
, Oct. 4, 2011.

  
8
.  Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Serial No. 113-43, May 15, 2013, p. 107.

  
9
.  “Eric Holder's Long History of Lying to Congress,”
Investor's Business Daily
, May 31, 2013.

10
.  Andrew McCarthy, “Eric Holder Misled Congress? Surely You Jest . . . ,”
National Review
, May 29, 2013; see also “Justice Undone: Clemency Decisions in the Clinton White House,” House Committee on Government Reform, Report No 107-454, May 14, 2002.

11
.  
U.S. v. Clarendon Ltd.
, 1:35CV00780

12
.  Andrew McCarthy, “Unpardonable: Holder's Marc Rich Shuffle,”
National Review
, Jan. 21, 2009.

13
.  Ibid.

14
.  “Budget Hearing—Department of Justice—Attorney General,” House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, March 1, 2011, p. 66 or hour 2:49.

15
.  
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S.
, Civil Action No. 10-851 (D. D.C. July 23, 2012), p. 13.

16
.  H.Res. 711 (June 28, 2012).

17
.  Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Serial No. 113-43, May 15, 2013, p. 39.

18
.  Letter from Deputy Attorney General James Cole to John Boehner, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, June 28, 2012.

19
.  Letter of Sen. Charles E. Grassley to Ronald C. Machen, Jr., U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia, June 29, 2012.

20
.  Jennifer Rubin, “Holder Is At It Again: Do These Guys Ever Tell the Truth?”
Washington Post
, May 17, 2013.

21
.  Ibid.

22
.  “United States Department of Justice,” Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Serial No. 112-127, May 3, 2011, p. 45.

23
.  “Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice,” Hearing Before the Committee on Justice, U.S. Senate, Serial No. J-112-50, Nov. 8, 2011, p. 9.

24
.  “Fast and Furious: The Anatomy of a Failed Operation,” Joint Staff Report, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Part II of III, Oct. 29, 2012, p. 11.

25
.  Ibid., p. 103.

26
.  Ibid.

27
.  Ibid., p. 9.

28
.  “United States Department of Justice,” Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Serial No. 112-152, June 7, 2012, p. 423.

29
.  Ibid.

30
.  Interview with Andrew McCarthy, Dec. 19, 2013.

Chapter 7: Fast and Furious

  
1
.  “Primer on the Fast and Furious Scandal,” CBS News, Feb. 12, 2013.

  
2
.  Press Conference of Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Department of Justice, Feb. 25, 2009.

  
3
.  Matthew Boyle, “Fast and Furious Product of Deliberate Strategy,”
Daily Caller
, Oct. 29, 2012.

  
4
.  Mark Landler, “Clinton Says U.S. Feeds Mexico Drug Trade,”
New York Times
, March 25, 2009.

  
5
.  Katie Pavlich,
Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up
(New York: Regnery, 2012).

  
6
.  Ryan Mauro, “Where Drug Cartels Really Get Their Arms,”
FrontPageMag
, April 12, 2011.

  
7
.  William La Jeunesse, “The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.,” Fox News, April 2, 2009.

  
8
.  Speech by Attorney General Eric Holder at the Mexico/United States Arms Trafficking Conference, April 2, 2009.

  
9
.  Catharine Evans, “Fast and Furious Traced to White House,”
American Thinker
, July 29, 2011.

10
.  Testimony of Secretary Janet Napolitano Before Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, March 25, 2009.

11
.  Speech of Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden at the ATF Firearms Trafficking Summit, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 30, 2009.

12
.  “The Department of Justice's Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents,” Joint Staff Report for Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley, June 14, 2011.

13
.  John Dodson,
The Unarmed Truth: My Fight to Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2013).

14
.  Sari Horwitz and James V. Grimaldi, “U.S. Gun Dealers with the Most Firearms Traced over the Past 4 Years,”
Washington Post
, Dec. 13, 2010.

15
.  Letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley to Kenneth E. Melson, Acting Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Jan. 27, 2011.

16
.  Letter from Senator Chuck Grassley to Kenneth E. Melson, Acting Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Jan. 31, 2011.

17
.  Letter from Office of Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice, to Sen. Chuck Grassley, Feb. 4, 2011.

18
.  “Agent: I Was Ordered to Let U.S. Guns Into Mexico,”
CBS Evening News
, March 3, 2011.

19
.  Matthew Boyle, “Holder Less than Candid on Fast and Furious,”
Daily Caller
, Oct. 4, 2011.

20
.  Matthew Boyle, “Holder Personally Named in New Fast and Furious Documents,”
Daily Caller
, Oct. 3, 2011.

21
.  Ibid.

22
.  “Rep. Blake Farenthold on the Latest Fast and Furious News,” NRA News, Oct. 5, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nccW4wKhfUk&feature=youtu.be.

23
.  “Rep. Raul Labrador Calls for Resignation of Attorney General Holder Over ‘Fast and Furious' Testimony Discrepancies,” Press Release, Oct. 6, 2011.

24
.  Matthew Boyle, “Congressman to Holder: ‘We're Not Interested in Kumbayah, Drop Your Rhetoric and Resign Immediately,' ”
Daily Caller
, Oct. 8, 2011

25
.  Matthew Boyle, “Congressman: Obama May be Accessory to Murder with Fast and Furious,”
Daily Caller
, Oct. 5, 2011.

26
.  Boyle, “Holder Less Than Candid on Fast and Furious.”

27
.  Matthew Boyle, “Holder Claims His Testimony Was Accurate, Pushes Back Against ‘Inflammatory Rhetoric,' ”
Daily Caller
, Oct. 7, 2011.

28
.  Matthew Boyle, “Rep. Joe Walsh to Eric Holder: Resign Immediately and Take Responsibility for Operation Fast and Furious,”
Daily Caller
, Oct. 26, 2011.

29
.  Matthew Boyle, “Rep. Pete Olson: If Holder Refuses to Leave We'll Force Him to Resign Through Impeachment,”
Breitbart News
, Nov. 13, 2011.

30
.  Tim Mak, “Issa Subpoenas Holder on Fast and Furious,”
Politico
, Oct. 22, 2011.

31
.  Matthew Boyle, “During Senate Testimony Holder Changes Misleading Testimony from May Hearing,”
Daily Caller
, Nov. 8, 2011.

32
.  “Justice Withdraws Inaccurate Fast and Furious Letter It Sent to Congress,” NPR Blog The Two Way, Dec. 2, 2011.

33
.  Matthew Boyle, “Issa to Obama: Either You're Involved in Fast and Furious or Your Executive Privilege Claim is Unjustified,”
Daily Caller
, June 26, 2012.

34
.  Alan Silvereib, “House Holds Holder in Contempt,” CNN, June 29, 2012.

35
.  Matthew Boyle, “Grassley: Politics in US Attorney General Holder's Decision,”
Daily Caller
, June 29, 2012.

36
.  Josh Gerstein, “Judge Won't Allow Holder Appeal Now in Contempt Case,”
Politico
, Nov. 18, 2013.

37
.  
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform v. Holder
, Case No. 12-1332 (D. D.C. Nov. 18, 2013).

38
.  498 F.2d 725 (D.C. Cir. 1974).

39
.  Hans von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery, “Packing the D.C. Circuit,”
Human Events
, Oct. 31, 2013.

40
.  Todd F. Gaziano, “Executive Privilege Can't Shield Wrongdoing,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, June 22, 2012.

41
.  Matthew Boyle, “Grassley: Federal Judge Should Overturn Obama's Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim,”
Daily Caller
, Aug. 29, 2012.

42
.  Matthew Boyle, “Darrell Issa Vows Fast & Furious Justice on Brian Terry Murder Anniversary,”
Breitbart News
, Dec. 15, 2013.

43
.  Evan Perez, “Fast and Furious Gun Turns Up After Mexican Resort Shootout,” CNN, Dec. 31, 2013.

44
.  Hunter Stuart, “Fast and Furious Gun Linked to Murder of Mexican Police Chief, Bodyguard,”
Huffington Post
, July 6, 2013.

45
.  Gerardo Reyes and Santiago Wills, “Fast and Furious Scandal: New Details Emerge on How the U.S. Government Armed Mexican Drug Cartels,” Fusion.net, Sept. 28, 2012.

46
.  Matthew Boyle, “Gowdy: Fast & Furious Deaths, Consequences Will ‘Last for the Rest of Our Lives,”
Breitbart News
, Dec. 19, 2012.

47
.  “Gun From Botched Fast and Furious Operation Turns Up After Mexican Resort Shootout,” Fox News, Jan. 2, 2014.

48
.  Matthew Boyle, “Issa Says Holder Should Apologize to Mexico: Justice Has Blood on Their Hands,”
Daily Caller
, Jan. 26, 2012.

49
.  Katie Pavlich, “Grassley and Issa Send Letter to ATF: We Are Appalled by Agents Lack of Judgment,” Townhall, Jan. 10, 2014.

50
.  Boyle, “Darrell Issa Vows Fast & Furious Justice on Brian Terry Murder Anniversary.”

Chapter 8: Protecting National Security

  
1
.  Huma Khan, “Shoe-Bomber Reid Was Read His Rights ‘Within 5 Minutes of Being Removed from the Aircraft': Obama Administration Continues Pushback on National Security Criticism,” ABC News, Feb. 3, 2010.

  
2
.  “Mukasey: ‘Amateur Night' at Justice Department Over Terror Trial Confusion,” Fox News, Feb. 2, 2010.

  
3
.  Diane Sawyer, “9/11 Mastermind to Be Tried at Gitmo,” ABC News, April 4, 2011.

  
4
.  Josh Meyer and Tom Hamburger, “Eric Holder Pushed for Controversial Clemency,”
Los Angeles Times
, Jan. 9, 2009.

  
5
.  Joseph F. Connor, “Terrorists Killed My Dad,”
Los Angeles Times
, Jan. 16, 2009.

  
6
.  Ron Kolb, “Hillary, Terrorism and the FALN,”
RealClearPolitics
, May 29, 2008.

  
7
.  Huma Khan, “More on Holder and FALN,” ABC News, Jan. 16, 2009.

  
8
.  Joseph Connor, “Eric Holder: Incompetent or Malfeasant Ideologue?”
Breitbart
, Oct. 9, 2011.