Sponsored Content









































« Shock: Media Distorts Mitt Romney's Wa-Wa Statement, Which Was Actually a Parable About the Innovation and Efficiency of the Private Sector as Compared to the Public | Main | Breaking: First Black President, It Turns Out, Was Ronald Reagan »
June 18, 2012

National Border Patrol Council, Which Represents All 17,000 Non-Supervisory Border Agents, Calls For Holder's Resignation

Holder lied, Brian Terry died.

Council President George E. McCubbin III, a 25-year Border Patrol veteran, described Mr. Holder’s actions in the case as “a slap in the face to all Border Patrol agents who serve this country,” adding that the attorney general showed “an utter failure of leadership at the highest levels of government.”

...

Mr. McCubbin said Border Patrol agents are indoctrinated from day one of their training that “integrity is their most important trait and that without it, they have little use to the agency.” He said agents who lie or show a lack of candor are disciplined quickly.

“The standard that applies to these agents should at a minimum be applied to those who lead them,” Mr. McCubbin said. “If Eric Holder were a Border Patrol agent and not the attorney general, he would have long ago been found unsuitable for government employment and terminated.”

Meanwhile, the whistleblower who alerted the nation that American border agents were being killed with American guns delivered to Mexican drug-dealers at the order of the American ATF remains on leave -- still being retaliated against, for the crime of telling the truth.

More than a year after ATF Special Agent John Dodson first blew the whistle on the scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, Dodson says he is "disheartened and disappointed" by the congressional investigation and Attorney General Eric Holder’s handling of the botched gunrunning probe.

The Terry family has brought suit against the government over Brian Terry's death. And Dodson says the government cannot claim it wasn't warned.

Because he warned them.

...

I asked them [his supervisors] if they were prepared to go to the funeral of a Border Patrol agent over this or Cochise County deputy – if they were prepared to watch that widow accept that folded flag because that’s exactly what was going to happen. So they can't claim that was an unforeseen consequence," he said.

The man who the press should be protecting as a whistleblower is instead thrown under the bus.

Even though Attorney General Eric Holder admitted Fast and Furious was a mistake and ordered the agency to stop walking guns, Dodson says the ATF never acknowledged it did anything wrong. His former chain of command filed a complaint against Dodson for lying. Despite a mountain of evidence and testimony to the contrary, he remains on leave, rendered ineffective by the claims against him.

...

"The Secret Service scandal that just happened. Did we have to wait on an OIG report? No. In three weeks 10 guys were gone," he said. "The GSA scandal? Dealt with and gone. We shouldn't have to wait a year on a OIG report."

This report is more difficult, of course. Unlike the Secret Service scandal, this report is designed to protect the guilty -- a harder thing to do.


digg this
posted by Ace at 05:55 PM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
IrishEi: ">>> because he had people like John Solomon and Sa ..."

micky: "Jan Hook as Tammye Faye was hilarious in a torrent ..."

BignJames: " The stuff is dangerous. Deadly even. Posted by ..."

Daddy, why do muffin pans have 12 spaces instead of five?: "Tango hahahaha ..."

Rick67: "I will cut Macron slack for this. Partly because p ..."

IrishEi: " Just made some Tang...don't think I've had any si ..."

Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie: "265 Speaking of, I don't know her name but the lad ..."

humphreyrobot : "Remember the Jesus lady on TV, she cried on live t ..."

BignJames: "They just wanted to be able to visit their loved o ..."

sven: "263 Posted by: Nightwatch at March 27, 2023 09:52 ..."

Nightwatch: "Anyone... LADYL's son. Status? ..."

Daddy, why do muffin pans have 12 spaces instead of five?: "This all started with the fight for GEY Marriage a ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64