I just saw this and haven’t had time to fully review as it’s a long article. Dennis K. Burke was a counsel for the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee and was instrumental in writing the assault weapons ban during the Clinton Administration. Burke has held high positions under Janet Napolitano, first when she was Attorney General of Arizona and then became her chief of staff when she was elected governor. Next stop was the White House working for Eric Holder. It goes on and on. Burke apparently ran Fast & Furious.
(CNSNews.com) – Dennis K. Burke, who as a lawyer for the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the 1990s was a key player behind the enactment of the 1994 assault-weapons ban, and who then went on to become Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano’s chief of staff, and a contributor to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential primary campaign, and then a member of Obama’s transition team focusing on border-enforcement issues, ended up in the Obama administration as the U.S. attorney in Arizona responsible for overseeing Operation Fast and Furious.
When Obama nominated Burke to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, Burke told the Arizona Capitol Times he believed he understood what the president and his attorney general wanted him to do.
“There’s clearly been direction provided already by President Obama and Attorney General Holder as to what they want to be doing, and this is an office that is at the center of the issues of border enforcement,” said Burke.
Over the course of several days, CNSNews.com left multiple telephone messages with Burke for comment on this story. He did not respond.
Dennis K. Burke has had a long career working as an aide and political appointee to Democratic elected officials. From 1989 to 1994, he was a counsel for the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, working in that capacity for several years on an assault-weapons ban, which was finally enacted on Sept. 13, 1994 as the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. That act expired on Sept. 13, 2004. (See NYT: Dennis Burke, Sen. DeConcini, Weapons Ban.pdf)
From 1994-95, Burke served in the Clinton Justice Department in the Office of Legislative Affairs, and in 1997-99, he was an assistant U.S. attorney in Arizona.
From 1999 to 2003, Burke was chief deputy and special assistant to Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano.
In 2003, when Napolitano became governor, Burke became her chief of staff. He stayed in that job until the fall of 2008, when he left to help Democratic political campaigns, including then-Sen. Obama’s presidential campaign.
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It was in July 2010, after his nomination as U.S. attorney, that Burke told theArizonaCapitol Times that he had “been working on homeland security and border enforcement issues” during the transition, and that there had “clearly been direction provided already by President Obama and Attorney General Holder as to what they want to be doing.”
“What I hope to do, if confirmed by the Senate,” Burke told the paper, “is to ensure that those plans and strategies are being implemented and we’re moving quickly on prosecutions.”
After the nomination, former Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.) had high praise for Burke’s work in getting the assault weapons ban through Congress back in the 1990s.
This is a long article so please read the rest of it here.
Obama Contributor, Who Helped Enact Assault-
Weapons Ban, Ran ‘Fast and Furious’
Horrendous Revolver was just on FOX’s Hannity show defending Holder’s stonewalling. He said “I’m a Republican.” News to me, did anyone know this?
My bad, it was on O’Reilly’s show. Laura Ingraham was hosting so I forgot whose show I was watching.
@ Rancher:
The hell he is. I’d like to see his voter registration in New York. I don’t believe for a minute that he voted for either Bush or McCain. And I know he voted for Clinton.
The loss of integrity.
Lies will always be with us.
There was a time when lies meant something. And especially when Leaders were caught in them. There was a time when that happened a common nobility kicked in and those in power who were held to a greater standard understood the morality that went with the office.
That time has passed and in my opinion slouched downward further with Wet Willie. Here was a man who was impeached for right reasons and suggested the action was below the scope of his duty. He set the precedent and now we have Holder holding fast to his office and making light of the contempt vote.
Hello… Has anyone read the above article? This Dennis Burke character was Janet Napolitano’s chief of staff when she we the AZ Attorney General and then was her chief of Staff when she was governor. HE RAN FAST & FURIOUS!
@ huckfunn:
chickens coming home to roost
rain of lead wrote:
The top turds of the Obama Regime are all in this up to their necks. And Issa knows more than he’s saying.
@ huckfunn:
The lies and deception of this administration has eclipsed the misdeeds of the Nixon White House. If this were a White Republican, the cries of impeachment would be loud and strong throughout the mainstream media. But in the case of this administration, all is couched in terms of racism.
The media, which vested every last shred of its credibility in propping up what is being revealed as a true criminal enterprise and getting this unqualified Marxist elected in the first place, is sounding more and more desperate as they try to get the American public to ignore what they know to be true.
Carolina Girl wrote:
You better believe that. also every time the Dems bring up Katrina, the Repubs need to bring up B.P.
Carolina Girl wrote:
The Missus and I were just talking about it. This makes Watergate look like a day at the park.
There is a cancer growing on the presidency and its name is Eric Holder.
@ huckfunn:
If this doesn’t impress upon the GOP Senators the importance of vetting and rejecting candidates such as this nothing will. Holder and “Big Sis” should never ever have been permitted positions of power in government.
As someone aptly put it, “No one died during Watergate.”
Drip… drip… drip…
Issa, Grassley release details about Fast and Furious whistleblower retaliation, cover-up
I hope they eventually prosecute Janet Incompetano for her malfeasance in the whole thing!
Bordm wrote:
As someone else put it, this is Watergate with over 300 dead bodies.
I often wonder what Obama’s approval numbers would be if the press reported as accurately about him as they reported inaccurately about the TEA Party.
Carolina Girl wrote:
If Obama’s real poll numbers ever got out, the Kenyans would start claiming he was born in the USA!!
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Indeed. His real poll numbers are no were near what the press is printing. I am just not seeing the obama love-fest at all. Oh sure there is the occasionally pro-obama sticker out there (although I have yet to see EVEN ONE). But others have claimed to see them.
Hell while on the interstate I saw VW Van with a peace sticker on the back. But no pro-obama stickers on it anywhere. The love for obama just isn’t there anymore. Although I am not going to take for granted that the election in November will be a shoo-in for Romney. Obama just doesn’t play by the rules and actually double-downs on not playing by the rules.
Oh dear I have killed another thread, again.
Lily wrote:
It’s not dead…it’s pining for the fjords.
Lily wrote:
No, just a really s l o w night.
Most Americans agree with him…this man is awesome..he has no problem with ACTUALLY telling the truth.
Rep. Allen West on Friday called Nancy Pelosi “somewhat delusional” for refusing to say that the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act constitutes a tax, and likened the mandate to forcing people to “buy a 9mm Glock.”
“I think that former Speaker Pelosi is somewhat delusional,” West said on Fox News. “You have to remember that this is the person who said that we have to pass this bill in order to find out what is in his bill. So there has been a deception against the American people from the onset.”
After the Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law Thursday, Republicans pounced on the president and Democratic lawmakers for having argued during the health care debate that the individual mandate was not a tax. The high court said in its decision that Congress could require almost all Americans to buy health insurance through its authority to tax.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/06/29/allen-west-nancy-pelosi-is-delusional/
@ lobo91:
@ Da_Beerfreak:
So there is still *life* on this thread after all!!!
The Wise Rabbi
The only cow in a small town in Ukraine stopped giving milk. The people did some research and found that they could buy a cow
from Moscow for 2,000 rubles, or one from Minsk for 500 rubles.
Being frugal, they bought the cow from Minsk.
The cow was wonderful. It produced lots of milk all the time, and
the people were amazed and very happy. They decided to acquire a
bull to mate with the cow and produce more cows like it.
Then they would never have to worry about the milk supply again.
They bought a bull and put it in the pasture with their beloved cow.
However, whenever the bull came close to the cow, the cow would
move away. No matter what approach the bull tried, the cow would
move away from the bull and he could not succeed in his quest. The
people were very upset and decided to ask their wise Rabbi what to do.
They told the Rabbi what was happening. They explained:
“Whenever the bull approaches our cow, she moves away.
If he approaches from the back, she moves forward.
When he approaches her from the front, she backs off.
An approach from the side and she just walks away to the other side.”
The Rabbi pondered this for a while and asked, “Did you buy this cow from Minsk?”The people were amazed and dumbfounded, since they had never mentioned where they had the cow from.
“You are truly a wise Rabbi,” they said.
“How did you know we got the cow from Minsk?”
The Rabbi answered sadly, “My wife is from Minsk …”
@ lobo91:
Pining for the fjords!? What kind of talk is that?
Finally home. Son’s new implants on his eyes are working at break-neck speed.
/plus hubby said he doesn’t miss Houston traffic not one bit!!!
@ yenta-fada:
@ Lily:
That’s awesome news!
Bumr50 wrote:
What he said…
Lily wrote:
SO HAPPY for your family! Your son must be excited.
Lily wrote:
Just ‘somewhat delusional’, Rep. West?
Re: forcing people to buy a 9mm Glock. Change that to ‘force taxpayers to provide a suitable handgun to all law abiding Americans’, and I’d be all in favor!
@ Bumr50:
Yes it is and so glad it’s over. It’s been one l-o-n-g week I tell you! Not to mention the results were better than expected.
All I can say do is *sigh* finally done and am so exhusted. Glad to be home.
@ mfhorn:
Well he couched his words but got the message across none the less.
@ lobo91:
I’m missing Leia! A long time to go without a blog mascot….
@ mfhorn:
True. I don’t have much use for a 9mm anything. We don’t really have a rodent problem.
@ yenta-fada:
Yes he is! He is showing them off to everyone! Plus now he has calmed down..all last week he was a nervous wreak! So worried about this week. As for me …got home, went to see grand-baby, unpacked 1/2 of our stuff and went straight to bed for a much needed nap…now just killing time till I go back to bed. Still awfully tired.
But all in all…excellent news and an answer to our prayers!
mfhorn wrote:
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Watch these geniuses.
@ yenta-fada:
Plus {yenta} I kept my promise to update you through out the week!
/the lap-top was a saving grace inbetween doc appointments. Kept me from being bored.
Also got to see Calo, my best friend who lives in Houston, and my neice and nephew…so it was a busy week with times of just waiting for the next appointment.
lobo91 wrote:
Talk about a classic.
@ yenta-fada:
We can only thank the Lord they are so ignorant. Apparently they forgot Louisiana who has most of their parishes named after Saints.
San Jose the most important city/town in California???
Lily wrote:
I’d be happier if the West would wake up about the enemy.
yenta-fada wrote:
We have to deal with the domestic enemy first.
Whatever could go wrong with this??? I swear obama is complete idjit.
/but a master at tearing down our country. Peace talks with the Taliban..if it wasn’t making the United State look like idiots I would laugh. The Taliban doesn’t want peace just us out of their country so they can get back to their stone age ways.
FOX News) — The Obama administration is considering a new gambit to restart peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan that would send several Taliban detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a prison in Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan officials told The Associated Press.
Under the proposal, some Taliban fighters or affiliates captured in the early days of the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and later sent to Guantanamo under the label of enemy combatants would be transferred out of full U.S. control but not released. It’s a leap of faith on the U.S. side that the men will not become threats to U.S. forces once back on Afghan soil. But it is meant to show more moderate elements of the Taliban insurgency that the U.S. is still interested in cutting a deal for peace. . . .
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/06/29/obama-regime-contemplates-handing-taliban-detainees-over-to-afghanistan/
lobo91 wrote:
I agree we need to clean house at home before doing anything else.
The insanity is reaching a screeching point here.
@ lobo91:
I’ve got a Taurus 9mm that I really enjoy, but I would like to upgrade a bit somewhere along the line. I have way too many bills to worry about first. Credit cards, the heart surgery from Christmas, paying for the assorted cats, the better half’s student loans… Maybe in 2-3 years. Maybe if I get a real job that actually pays something. But hey, thank God I have SOME job. A hell of a lot better that many people can say.
@ yenta-fada:
Good blog to send around re islam.
http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2011/05/key-to-your-listeners-inability-to.html
@ yenta-fada:
So many classics from that show.
Dead Parrots. Silly Walks. ‘Bruce’. Cheese. ‘Pepperpots’. Elections. What a warped group. Gotta love ‘em!
@ mfhorn:
The old ‘Black Adder’ series was pretty funny as well. Several great British comics such as Hugh Laurie from ‘House’ were in the ensemble cast.
@ mfhorn:
I forgot you had that major surgery. Lots of discipline on your part to recover.
Good night, good people.
@ mfhorn:
Glad you have recovered well. Didn’t know you had that surgery.
@ yenta-fada:
Nite {yenta}!
Sweet dreams!
http://patriotupdate.com/25137/why-obama-erased-his-white-girlfriends
If he had any girlfriends besides Michelle they sure have kept quiet.
@ mfhorn:
I’m BACK mf, about a month after my surgery to fix my heart …. and ready for our challenge to keep us in shape.
Are you ready? I’m up to 30 minutes 3x’s a week of CV exercise.
Let me know how you are doing please.
on topic
so, it wasn’t SB1070 which caused Obama and Holder and the rest of their cohorts to come after AZ at all. They took office with AZ in their gunsights (pun intended). SB1070 was just a convenient excuse. Sort of like Zimmerman turning out to be innocent later this summer -- that will be an excuse to attack whites just in time for the election. These people are evil beyond the comprehension of any normals.
Lily wrote:
bastard would probably like to erase all white people. mofo would have to erase half of himself.
@ yenta-fada:
bwaaahahahah! no “S” in espanol? no “S” is espana? no “S” sound in pan dulce? no “s” in cabo san lucas? no “S” in puerto penasco? how stupid can a moslem get??? we should start a game!
@ yenta-fada:
Heh.
@ Calo:
I had a productive day. Broke into my dad’s apartment, stole his wallet, keys and checkbook. Then I raided his P.O. Box.
mfhorn wrote:
Upgrade? Upgrade in 9 mm or to a larger cartridge? If in 9 mm, I can recommend the Beretta M 92 FS (which is essentially the service issue M 9.) I’m sure the Kimbers in 9 mm are nice, because their .45s sure are. Never fired one, but I’ve also heard good things about the Beretta PX4 series of pistols. The Ruger LC9 with the extension baseplates on the magazines is the smallest 9 mm that lets me get 3 fingers on the grip. Not as nice as the Berettas, but smaller and a lot cheaper. DA only, so a longer trigger pull, though. The Kimbers and Rugers are American-made, of course. My particular M 92 is Italian-made (a birthday prezzie), but they make them here in America as well.
@ Mike C.:
I need a gun thread to take my mind off a rather bad political week.
Hallelujah, Europe is saved!!!! (again)
////
For real?
Was it under the sofa?
@ mfhorn:
If you want to upgrade from 9mm, a Glock 21 SF is pretty nice. The SF stands for “Slim Frame”, and it fits the hand better than the older Glock 21s. They are, in case you didn’t know, in .45 ACP. They have a 13 round magazine, which I’ll take 13 rounds of .45 over 15 rounds on 9mm any day of the week. Recoil is very manageable. I only have two complaints about the Glock. I don’t like the trigger (I prefer a 1911 trigger), and I don’t like the stock sights. I’m going to replace the sights on mine with some Trijicons, so that isn’t a big deal. The trigger on a Glock seems a little mushy to me, though. I don’t want to lighten it, I just don’t like having so much slack to take up. My favorite handgun is still a 1911. The magazine capacity is a little limited, but pother than that it is damn near perfection. I’ll bet they are still making 1911s 200 years from now. It’s a hard design to improve on.
Good morning Comrades, I bring you greetings from the
Dear Leader.
Due to your efforts and our cadres in the congress and
the Court we will soon control every spect of health
care. We will decide who gets treatment and how much.
The reactinary , counter-revolutionaries will not do
well.
continue with our talking points that Republicans
hate Grandma
Glorious Revolution is almost complete.
@ Lily:
Пелоси isn’t “somewhat” delusional. She is TOTALLY delusional!
And good morning to everyone!
Obama is floating a plan. It would involve transfer
of prisoners from Gitmo to Afghanistan in order to
get talks with the Taliban.
Great plan , because ptrisoners never escape from
Afhanistan jails./
@ Calo:
Awesome news! Glad to hear you’re back & in recovery. I’ve kind of fallen down on this lately, but will start back up on Monday- 5 days a week @ 30 minutes.
@ Iron Fist:
Glocks just don’t fit my hands. And I demand a positive manual safety for carry with a round in the chamber. Yes, I know cops carry Glocks with a round in the chamber, but I’m not as well-trained as even Barney Fife, and I’d rather not shoot my balls off or something.
I also don’t give much credence to the endless 9 mm v .45 ACP argument. According to FBI statistics every year, the deadliest rounds are .22 LR and .25 ACP. Put a 9 mm round where it belongs and your problems are solved. Miss with a .50 BMG round and nothing is solved. Hell, I’m waiting to get my hands on an LCR in .22 to see if the DA trigger pull is short enough for the old lady, who is both recoil-sensitive, but also hates long trigger pulls, and nothing on earth is simpler to operate than a DA revolver. 8 rounds of .22 LR beats the crap out of nothing. Ideal combat round? No. But if that doesn’t work, I have to think about seeing if a .380 semi-auto like the Beretta Cheetah might do -- expensive, and yet another caliber to have to stock up on, and not a particulaly cheap one, either.
@ yenta-fada:
What brought ‘Hussein’ to California? Were there pigs & goats for him to bugger? Little girls?
@ Mike C.:
Now here’s a new carry piece in .45. It was supposed to have been released back in March, but it’s out now. The Springfield Armory XDS. Capacity is 5 + 1, but if you’re looking for that extra thump, this would be the one.
Big Sis has totally declared war on her home state of Arizona. Border Patrol Agents instructed to runaway and hide when confronted by a shooter.
@ huckfunn:
Those are nice little pistols. The next pistol I get is likely to be a Glock 30,though. It is a bit thicker than the Springfield Armory pistol, but it has a 10great round capacity. Once I accepted the utility of a plastic frame Flocks became kind of my default pistol. I still like a 1911 best, though.
@ Iron Fist:
I’ve lugged my trusty Colt .45 literally from coast to coast but that sucka’s just too big to carry and it’s now my bedroom pistol. I haven’t had any experience with Glock, but they’re undoubtedly a good piece. My next favorite is my Springfield XD Sub Compact 9mm. The trigger pull is perfect and it’s ergonomically designed as a natural extension of the hand when pointing it at a target. I also like the idea of having 17 rounds available.