{"id":10629,"date":"2011-12-03T06:05:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=10629"},"modified":"2011-12-03T06:06:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T11:06:17","slug":"the-dog-ate-my-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=10629","title":{"rendered":"The Dog Ate My Homework"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">In the Friday night document dump by the Obama administration this week, you will find all sorts of documents related to Operation Fast and Furious.<\/div>\n<p>Late last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D9RCPRFG0&amp;show_article=1\">Big Government<\/a>\u00a0reported on the document dump. The letters are supposed to show how the Department of Justice accidentally gave Senator Grassley on the Senate Judiciary Committee\u00a0inaccurate information on Operation Fast and Furious.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>In a letter last February to <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.breitbart.com\/Charles+Grassley\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Charles Grassley,<\/a> the ranking Republican on the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.breitbart.com\/Senate+Judiciary+Committee\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Senate Judiciary Committee,<\/a> the Justice Department said that the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.breitbart.com\/Bureau+of+Alcohol%2C+Tobacco+and+Firearms\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms<\/a> had not sanctioned the sale of <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.breitbart.com\/assault+weapons\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">assault weapons<\/a> to a straw purchaser and that the agency makes every effort to intercept weapons that have been purchased illegally. In <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.breitbart.com\/Operation+Fast\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Operation Fast<\/a> and Furious, both statements turned out to be incorrect.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The Justice Department letter was responding to Grassley&#8217;s statements that the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.breitbart.com\/Senate+Judiciary+Committee\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Senate Judiciary Committee<\/a> had received allegations the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.breitbart.com\/ATF\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">ATF<\/a> had sanctioned<\/strong> <strong>the sale of hundreds of assault weapons to suspected straw purchasers. Grassley also said there were allegations that two of the assault weapons had been used in a shootout that killed customs agent <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.breitbart.com\/Brian+Terry\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brian Terry.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When asked about the weapon used to kill Brian Terry, former U.S. Attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/lingows.appspot.com\/link\/?@li2=2171&amp;is_lhid=1&amp;key=SVKEJENJ&amp;ps_id=fkMm7rKBUV&amp;q=QQ:lqOTqjptCQHGPDA:B{DORJJOHGUOHUSVOqptJ:pnCDOqmj_J:pnCASO4aJm8CZAURA:GSSBKVV&amp;section_key=&amp;site_id=breitbart.com&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftopics.breitbart.com%2FDennis%2BBurke%2F&amp;url_key=_TaCUO0CA{::[D:[DK&amp;v=1&amp;~boot=1322907219500\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dennis Burke<\/a>\u00a0stated in an email that the weapon was purchased in a Phoenix gun shop before Operation Fast and Furious began. That was later shown to be false.<\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D9RCPRFG0&amp;show_article=1\">Big Government<\/a>\u00a0to read the entire article. Also keep in mind that had Operation Fast and Furious not been uncovered and made public, the Obama administration would have used &#8216;the amount of American guns used in crimes in Mexico&#8217; as an excuse to take away the rights of law-abiding gun owners. It wasn&#8217;t the gun owners who broke the law in Operation Fast and Furious&#8211;it was the federal government.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=de86ba55-dc88-422d-94ad-86bdaac28979\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Friday night document dump by the Obama administration this week, you will find all sorts of documents related to Operation Fast and Furious. Late last night, Big Government\u00a0reported on the document dump. The letters are supposed to show &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=10629\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[267,691,416,269,453,68,1455],"class_list":["post-10629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives","tag-chuck-grassley","tag-fast-furious","tag-justice-department","tag-operation-fast-and-furious","tag-united-states-department-of-justice","tag-united-states-senate-committee-on-the-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10636,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10629\/revisions\/10636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}