CBS reporters start acting like journalists

[LK Day]

CBS reporters start looking into the curious case of Operation Fast and Furious and elicit screaming and yelling responses from the white house and the dept. of justice :

Via Ed Driscoll

“CBS Reporter Says WH Screamed at Her Over Fast and Furious,” blogger JammieWearingFool notes, quoting from Sharyl Attkisson’s appearance on Laura Ingraham’s radio show:

6:05 – Laura: So they were literally screaming at you?
Attkisson: Yes. Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. [Laura: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?] Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House.”

7:33 – Laura: Do we know the exact number [of guns] that went over to Mexico?
Attkisson: We know more than 2,000 in Fast and Furious and I will soon be reporting on the fact that that is not the only case. 2,000 for that operation according to the agents involved.

8:28 – …Is it sort of a drip, drip. And I’m certainly not the one to make the case for DOJ and White House about what I’m doing wrong. They will tell you that I’m the only reporter–as they told me–that is not reasonable. They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I’m the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I’m unfair and biased by pursuing it."

They're feeling the heat and starting to panic. Holder has been caught in the lie that he didn't know about Fast and Furious and there is a trail of communications between the ATF field agent in charge and the White House. It's time for a special prosecutor.

[LK Day]

The story is spreading fast:

REPORTERS: HOW REASONABLE CAN THEY GET?
This almost made me laugh out loud: via Mark Hemingway at the Weekly Standard, reporter Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News, who is covering the Fast and Furious scandal, is being screamed at by the White House because she isn’t helping to cover it up.

Here's the link: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2 ... ey-get.php

[toad857]

still with the guns story? this happened like half a year ago

[LK Day]

That's true, until recently all media outlets have aggressively ignored what happened and why. I mean the U.S. government actually paying for and helping to run guns to the Mexican drug cartels and nobody thinks it's a story worth reporting on? WTF? As a result, those responsible have not been held accountable. It appears that CBS has decided to break ranks. We now know that Eric Holder perjured himself to a congressional committee investigating Fast and Furious. The White House claims to have been in the dark about the whole thing, and now it comes out that there are records of constant communication between the White House and agents in charge of Fast and Furious. At last a major news organization seems to have made the decision that they can best serve themselves by serving the interests of the American people. Very interesting.

[toad857]

I mean the U.S. government actually paying for and helping to run guns to the Mexican drug cartels ....

do you really see it like this, though?

[LK Day]

No, this has nothing to do with the way I "see it". The known facts of the case are absolutely incredible, almost beyond belief. More than 2,000 guns were allowed to walk over the border and into the hands of the Sinaloa sp? cartel with absolutely no effort to trace, track or interdict. Field agents were appalled at what they were ordered to do. At first they thought they were setting up some sort of elaborate sting, but over and over again they were ordered by their supervisors to stop surveillance and let guns go over the border with no way of tracking them from there. In at least one case an ATF agent actually purchased guns with agency funds, sold them to suspected smugglers and to his disbelief was ordered not to track the guns from there. ATF agents were raising hell internally, but only blew the whistle after two officers were killed on this side of the border. The death toll in Mexico from Fast and Furious guns recovered at crime scenes exceeds 200. Until CBS got on the case nobody but bloggers were interested in the story. Bob Owens has probably done more to pull together the known facts of the case than anyone else. I'll see if I can provide a link.
Here's the link to a report by Sharyl Attkisson at CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/ ... redPost-PE

Here's Attkisson's report on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvRzrSXota8

[toad857]

to legalize pot = the end of cartels



i know you've got a 4:20 sticker on your bumper, right?

[LK Day]

Well, it ain't just pot that the cartels are at war over. But for a long, long time I've been of the opinion that just about everything the feds have done in the "war on drugs" has been a hugely expensive, miserable failure. I doubt very seriously that legalization would somehow be worse than what we have now. If legalization doesn't work we could always pass a law against it, right? Just like the feds pass laws against almost everything, every day.

That said, I have the sneaking suspicion that "Fast and Furious" wasn't about catching drug dealers at all. The cat is out of the bag now. I think we might find out what exactly it is the administration has been trying to cover up. The feds say it was just a botched investigation. As long as they refuse to open up, I'm not buying that.

[Crankmas]

This operation had one goal, an excuse for gun control revisited, just as obama told Brady's wife that his administration would pursue gun control behind the scenes, this was the way they did it. Unfortunately the operation was bungled from the beginning like just about everything else these inept assholes have touched. The death of the US Border agent as well as significant instances of the weapons being used in murderous cartel actions have been the price of the operation. Now, the obvious attempts to cover-up knowledge by holder and the attempt to disengage the turd in the white house are considered nonprofessional actions by a journalist? This stinks to high heaven and the entire obama administration are just of bunch of radical chicago commie fags.

[toad857]

...........when did conservatism become so radical?