Wasn't Burke the big jerk who has been trying to get the court to reject "victim" status for the family of murdered Border Agent Brian Terry? Being granted victim status would give them the right to speak at the killer's sentencing hearing.....and there is no doubt that they would use the opportunity as a pulpit to name names and point out how it came to be that a known narco-terrorist came to be found with an illegally sold gun in his possession which was known to have walked across the border under the auspices of Fast & Furious...........which Burke oversaw as the local Justice Dept representative.RPB wrote:ALSO
U.S. Attorney for Arizona resigns in wake of Fast and Furious investigation
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Holder, Obama? Y'all gonna follow suit?Dennis Burke, the United States Attorney for Arizona since 2009, resigned Tuesday morning.
Burke's resignation, effective immediately, is one of several personnel moves made in the wake of a federal gun-trafficking investigation that put hundreds of rifles and handguns from Arizona into the hands of criminals in Mexico. Burke's office provided legal guidance to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on the flawed initiative called Operation Fast and Furious.
The news comes on the same day as a new acting director was named...
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Unless the judge is a gun-grabbing commie, he would have likely disallowed Burke's weak attempt to cover his rear.
On the flip side, all of these yahoos acted with the direct knowledge of both Holder and Obama. Maybe Holder is canning them all to cover his rear. But my sense is that Senators Issa and Grassley have got ahold of this like a big dog on a bone, and they aren't going to let go of it so easily.
Just so that we are clear that Fast & Furious goes all the way to the top, start paying attention at about the :40 mark in the following video:
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