Operation Gunwalker

Whistleblower ATF Agent John Dodson Exposes Deadly "Operation Gunrunner"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvRzrSXota8

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/breaking-new-evidence-show-hillary-a-mastermind-behind-gunwalker
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Last week it was reported that the State Department and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were deeply involved in the scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, or Project Gunwalker. Today, however, new evidence has surfaced indicating that not only was Hillary deeply involved in the scandal but was one of the masterminds behind it.

According to investigative citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh, sources close to the development of the Gunwalker scheme state that early on, Hillary and her trusted associated at State, Andrew J. Shapiro, devised at least part of the framework of what would later become Operation Fast and Furious. It was Shapiro who first described the details of the proposed scheme early in 2009 just after the Obama Administration took office.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_J._Shapiro

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1) After law school, Shapiro took a job as an associate attorney at the Washington, D.C. office of Covington & Burling. He left Covington & Burling after a few years to become counsel to the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee of the United States Department of Justice.

2 )Shapiro then became a legislative assistant for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D–NY). In 2005, Clinton appointed him as her senior defense and foreign policy adviser. In this capacity, he was Senator Clinton's liaison with the Pentagon and worked closely with her in connection with her work as a member of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services. According to The New Republic "it is Shapiro, Hillaryites say, who is in the room for most of her important foreign policy decisions" as senator.^[1] Shapiro has been described as a hawk on defense and Israel,^[2] and was reportedly influential in Clinton's decision to vote in favor of the Iraq Resolution in 2002^[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff
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Since leaving government service, Chertoff has worked as Senior Of Counsel at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling.^[2]

http://www.carlyle.com/team/item9902.html
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Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Marchick was a partner and Vice-Chair of the international practice group at Covington & Burling. He is an expert on foreign investment and national security issues.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/11/06/insidertrading-lawfirms-idUSN0515033820091106
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Ropes & Gray law firm gets insider case black eye

Thu Nov 5, 2009 7:12pm EST

* Other lawyers sympathize, say can happen anywhere* Ropes & Gray clients likely to see case as one-off
By Paritosh Bansal
NEW YORK, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A Ropes & Gray lawyer's arrest in an insider trading case has embarrassed the corporate law firm in the latest scandal to cast a harsh spotlight on legal partnerships that oversee billions of dollars in deals each year.
U.S. prosecutors alleged on Thursday that Arthur Cutillo, in Ropes & Gray's litigation department, gave out inside information about deals by the law firm's clients.

 

http://www.brandweeknrx.com/2007/09/covington-burli.html
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Covington & Burling, one of the largest white-shoe law firms in the country, representing AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Novartis, Schering-Plough and Pfizer, just got caught very red handed deleting Wikipedia entries about the firm like crazy. Seems like them lawyers aren't that smart after all . . .
[Update, here is another Pfizer law firm we found doing hilarious edits: Ropes & Gray, yet another Pfizer law firm caught changing Wikipedia. Click on link to learn about their  "epic parties," "phenomenal dining," "summer of ecstacy," and even "cool summer associates" like Seth Piken and his office-mate, "the jerk."]
If you want to see for yourself what the glorious lawyers at Covington & Burling have been up to, go here. If you just want the facts, keep on reading:
One entry deleted was the connection between Covington & Burling and secret societes:

There have been many connections drawn between Covington & Burling and the Skull & Bones or Illuminati. One notable connection is William P. Bundy who started out his career in 1947 working for Covington & Burling. In 1951 Bundy quit Covington & Burling to begin openly working for the CIA as an analyst, and then as assistant to the deputy director of the CIA.

                                                          

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickstein_Shapiro

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Notable lawyers and employees

Wendell H. Ford, former U.S. Senator from Kentucky, currently senior advisor to the firm's Public Policy & Law practice.^[5]

Seymour Glanzer, former Watergate scandal prosecutor, is now senior counsel to the firm.^[6]

Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, currently senior advisor to the firm's Public Policy & Law practice.^[7]

Pete Hoekstra, former U.S. Representative for Michigan's 2nd congressional district, currently a senior adviser to the government relations group.^[8]

Tim Hutchinson, former U.S. Senator from Arkansas, currently senior advisor to the firm's Public Policy & Law practice.^[9]

Ira Lee Sorkin, American attorney best known for representing Bernard Madoff, the American businessman who has pleaded guilty to perpetrating the largest investor fraud ever committed by a single person.^[10]

Joseph Tydings, former U.S. Senator from Maryland, currently of counsel to the firm.^[11]

Albert Wynn, former U.S. Representative for Maryland's 4th congressional district, currently senior advisor to the firm's Public Policy & Law practice.^[12]

Joseph H. Gale, judge on the United States Tax Court, first openly gay man appointed to the Federal bench.
Lewis Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
Floyd McKissick, Jr., North Carolina State Senator.

[edit] Notable Clients

Bernard Madoff^[13]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20108240-10391695.html
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September 19, 2011 12:53 PM

Secret recordings raise new questions in ATF 'Gunwalker' operation

By

Sharyl Attkisson

(Credit: CBS/AP)

Updated 5:09 pm, Sept. 19, 2011 with comment from the Office of the Inspector General
WASHINGTON - CBS News has obtained secretly recorded conversations that raise questions as to whether some evidence is being withheld in the murder of a Border Patrol agent.

MORE: ATF Fast and Furious secret audio recordings
ATF whistleblower called 'toxic' on secret tapes
(Scroll down to listen to the audio)
The tapes were recorded approximately mid-March 2011 by the primary gun dealer cooperating with ATF in its "Fast and Furious" operation: Andre Howard, owner of Lone Wolf Trading Company in Glendale, Arizona. He's talking with the lead case ATF case agent Hope MacAllister.
The tapes have been turned over to Congressional investigators and the Inspector General.

As CBS News first reported last February, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allegedly allowed thousands of weapons to "walk" onto the streets without interdiction into the hands of suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels in its operation "Fast and Furious."
The conversations refer to a third weapon recovered at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Agent: I was ordered to let guns into Mexico
Court records have previously only mentioned two weapons: Romanian WASR "AK-47 type" assault rifles. Both were allegedly sold to suspects who were under ATF's watch as part of Fast and Furious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hutchinson
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Family
Hutchinson's younger brother, Asa, succeeded him as U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 3rd congressional district. Tim and Asa Hutchinson are both graduates of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, Class of 1972.
Hutchinson's identical twin sons, Jeremy and Timothy Hutchinson, were the first twins to serve alongside each other in the Arkansas General Assembly, both as members of the House of Representatives. Hutchinson is also the brother-in-law of Arkansas State Senator Kim Hendren who married Hutchinson's sister, Marylea, in 1958. Hendren was a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in the 2010 election. On May 18, he lost the primary to John Boozman.

Kim Hendren
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Education and family
Hendren graduated in 1960 with a degree in engineering from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He is an Independent Protestant who has been active since 1963 in the Gideons International, the men's group which distributes Bibles in such public places as hotel rooms. He is also active in Kiwanis. Hendren is married to the former Marylea Hutchinson,^[1] a sister of former U.S. Senator Tim Hutchinson and former U.S. Representative and former head of the D.E.A. Asa Hutchinson. In 2002, Tim Hutchinson lost his reelection bid to Mark Pryor for the other U.S. Senate seat from Arkansas. Asa Hutchinson lost a Senate race in 1986 to Dale Bumpers and the gubernatorial campaign in 2006 to Mike Beebe. Hendren is an engineer and holds investments in an automobile dealership, real estate, and poultry interests. The Hendrens have four children, Mark, Jim, Gayla, and Hope.^[2] His daughter, Gayla, owns the radio station KBVA which carries political advertising for her father's campaigns.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/02/02/idUS238160+02-Feb-2009+PRN20090202
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              ADDENDUM
    The following people have been appointed or promoted to positions within
Foley Family Wines:
     Steve Mann, Northeast Zone Sales Manager
     Donna Hutchinson, New England Regional Sales Manager, reporting to Steve
     Mann
     Seaboard Brokers, reporting to Steve Mann

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jan/02/huckabees-liberal-problem/
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Arkansas, where tight-fisted Sam Walton started the Wal-Mart empire and where Tyson Foods is the world's largest chicken processor, Republican State Sen. Kim Hendren thinks Democrat Bill Clinton and Huckabee were both good governors of Arkansas.
"America didn't do too badly when [Clinton] served those eight years in Washington," Hendren adds. Even allowing for some Arkansas pride, that's not something you hear from Republicans very much.
It's a sign that there is something different about a lot of Arkansas Republicans.
Mike Huckabee among them. Huckabee has built his political career on a prairie populism more reminiscent of Bible-thumping common man William Jennings Bryan or activist reformer Theodore Roosevelt a century ago than tax-cutting Ronald Reagan.
Huckabee's campaign for lieutenant governor in 1993 was intentionally populist, says his adviser at the time, Dick Morris, who was also a key political adviser to Clinton. "