To: steve harris who wrote (63 ) 10/29/2011 12:43:35 PM From: joseffy Respond to IG Schnedar’s investigation: Gunwalker’s “Little Bighorn? bob-owens.com A string of damning emails and testimony has laid waste to the Obama Administration’s planned defense in depthJanet Napolitano , and repeated comments from President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, it has become apparent that the last, perhaps only defensive card the Administration has to play is to invoke the investigation into the gun-walking scheme being run by acting DOJ Inspector General Cynthia A. Schendar. By claiming that they do not want to talk because of the on-going OIG investigation, the President and appointees buy themselves both time and a plausible reason to avoid making comments that may come back to haunt them in the event of impeachment or a criminal trial.But who is acting Inspector General Schnedar, what role does she have to play in investigating her boss and her boss’s boss? Is there any reason to suspect she can be trusted Inspector General Gerald Walpin fired for his investigation into an ally of President Obama Eric Holder is well known to be a key ally of the President, in addition to being the head of the Agency that employs Schnedar . It is reasonable for Schnedar to suspect that if she finds the Obama Administration or its high-level appointees responsible for their apparent roles in walking guns, that she would find that she is no longer needed as acting Inspector General, nor would her services as a lawyer be in great demand in the private sector, having turned against a President heavily favored by the legal profession.old friend Eric Holder?It turns out that Ms. Schnedar has long and close ties to Mr. Holder. Justice Department website , she became assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. in 1994. Eric Holder had become the U.S. attorney in Washington the previous year, so he in effect was Schnedar’s boss from 1994 until 1997 , when he left to become President Clinton’s deputy attorney general. Holder would become a key player in the scandalous pardons of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich and members of the Puerto Rican nationalist terrorist group known as FALN.they had ended up working a number of cases together . According to the LexisNexis website, there were at least fourteen of them, co-filed legal briefs .The ethical conflict of interest faced by acting IG Schnedar She is tasked with investigating a former colleague who is currently her employer For these reasons, an ethical Inspector General would have recused herself from the investigation immediately, something that Schednar has steadfastly refused to do, raising the specter of impropriety and cronyism, undermining the system she is sworn to protect.Secret tapes recorded by the gun dealer at the heart of the government’s gun-walking operation were turned over to the Congressional investigators working the case. Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa turned over copies of the tapes to Schendar, who immediately turned them over to the very people she is supposed to be investigating, The Obama Administration is heavily invested in hiding behind acting Inspector General Schendar’s investigation , and certainly depends upon it as their last rhetorical stand defending themselves in the media. No wonder the President has ignored a growing chorus of calls from law enforcement officers and Congress to take Schnedar off the case and appoint an indepedent special prosecutor.
