GOA... Ask, No, DEMAND that your Senators Oppose The Cover-up Protection Act Concerning The BATFE's Actions On "Project Gunrunner"..."Fast and Furious"

[Lone Star State Sentinal]

June 20, 2011 GOA Alert	Gun Owners of America
	Oppose the Cover-up Protection Act -- Vote could come as early as Tuesday   As we reported to you on Friday, House Republicans got a royal “drop dead" from Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich when he testified before Rep. Darrell Issa’s committee last week.   Weich had earlier written Congress to deny wrongdoing by ATF in connection with allegations that it was intentionally allowing firearms to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. This Justice Department denial by Weich turned out to be false.   Weich had also refused to respond to repeated congressional demands for documents, and documents which he did provide were frequently nothing more than jet-black pieces of paper.   At the committee hearing, Weich told Chairman Darrell Issa and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that he would continue to withhold documents from Congress.   He also refused to answer questions from committee members such as Utah's Jason Chaffetz and South Carolina's Trey Gowdy.   And, incidentally, Weich refused to provide any information to Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley, on the sole excuse that Grassley was a mere “Republican." If Republicans wanted to exercise their constitutional oversight functions, intoned Weich, they would have to go begging to liberal anti-gun Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy.   So imagine our surprise that the Senate is poised to take up S. 679 -- “bipartisan" legislation which would exempt Weich, his successors, and 203 other similarly situated federal officials from Senate confirmation.   One would think it’s important that federal officials who are responsible for telling Congressmen what documents they can or can't review should be first approved with the “advice and consent" of the Senate.   But for Republican Senator Sue Collins, it’s apparently no big deal. After all, she is a sponsor of S. 679, the legislation to exempt hundreds of officials from Senate scrutiny.   Gun owners who have watched Weich cover up ATF's anti-gun policies -- policies which have intentionally flooded Mexican gun cartels with guns and resulted in the murder of federal law enforcement officers -- realize why it is important that the Senate should be able to block liars like Weich.   One strategy note: We do not expect to defeat the Cover-up Protection Act in the Senate where, sadly, Republican leader Mitch McConnell is a cosponsor. But if we do “respectably” well -- say, we get 20 votes or so against the bill -- it will give us the strength we need to ask that the bill be killed in the House.   The Senate could vote on this bill as soon as Tuesday.   ACTION: Please demand that your senators oppose this act.
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[Catherine Linton]

Sooner or later we've got to clean house.

[Lone Star State Sentinal]

More like immediately if not sooner than later. Holder and the ENTIRE laundry list's heads must roll on this despicable and blatant treacherous act that has cost the lives of innocent civilians and MOST enraging, two of our own LEO's.....the ICE agent who was ambushed in Mexico and Border Patrol Agent in Arizona!

[M]

There was a quick blurb on the news this morning about this, I missed the name but it said that an official would be forced to quit because of this. FRorced to Quit?????? what would they do to anyone else? They would put them away for years is what they would do. This was a crime with deadly consequences. I don't understand why people are not in the sterrts with ntheir pitchforks and torches so to speak protesting this entire Government. Of coures that could be what the Government wants as an excuse to suppress us completely. I just don't know.

[Lone Star State Sentinal]

I'd turn that "OFFICIAL WHO WAS FORCED TO QUIT" and the rest of the laundry list responsible over to the victims families and let them deal with the scumbags as they saw fit.....case closed!!

[M]

I would rather put thyem in a cell with Charles Manson and make sure he knew where they recently worked. Of course I would check up on him monthly to make sure everytrhing was ok. LOL! Seriously, I would like to see a very loud very messy Public trial where everything comes out even the stuff the Dept. of (in)Justice wants to keep away from the public. I still can't believe that there are people who actually that the Obama Crime family er Administration is doing the right things for the Country.

[Catherine Linton]

The ATF should be a convenience store, not a government agency.

[Lone Star State Sentinal]

That is what I say too.