A Journalist's Guide to 'Project Gunwalker'-Part Eight

Examiner.com article character limits preclude adding more updates to the initial and subsequently-posted Journalist's Guides to Project Gunwalker. This is a continuation of updates from this column and Sipsey Street Irregulars beginning December 19, 2011, and ending January 26, 2012.  It also includes contributions from regional Gun Rights Examiners.

Click here for the Part One chronology from Dec. 28, 2010 through March 8, 2011. Click here for Part Two, beginning on March 9, 2011 and ending on April 15, 2011. Click here for Part Three, beginning on April 17, 2011 and ending on June 19, 2011. Click here for Part Four, beginning on June 20, 2011 and ending on July 27, 2011. Click here for Part Five, beginning July 28, 2011 and ending September 8, 2011. Click here for Part Six, beginning September 9, 2011 and ending on October 22, 2011. And click here for Part Seven, beginning October 23, 2011 and ending on December 18, 2011.

December 19:

• New York Times stacks deck so Holder can play race card
• The Rashomon effect? Or just the complexity of human beings and life? Hero? Villain? Both? An alternate view of "Fed of the Year" Tom Brandon.
• Eric Holder wants a pass on responsibility for the functional racism of stacking up hundreds of Mexican bodies as an excuse for more gun control in the Gunwalker Scandal because if we try to blame him we're racists because he's black.
• "After Fast and Furious, I have no choice but to know that they will lie." Darrell Issa on Mexico's Univision Sunday show with Jorge Ramos.

December 20:

• Next Holder hearing scheduled for 24 January.
  
• Interesting new ATF internal document generated the day before the 4 February "withdrawn" (lying) DOJ letter to Grassley.
  
• "Now, 90 congressmen have ‘no confidence’ in Holder or believe he should quit."
  

December 21:

• M. Catherine Evans: "Even Before Fast and Furious, They Had Guns on Their Minds."
  
• ‘Bloggers’ continue to beat media at their own game on ‘Gunwalker’
  

December 22:

• Gun owners should tell White House what they would do with $40
  
• There's that old Texas connection again. . . LA Times: "Reputed Mexican cartel chief charged in killing of U.S. agent."
  
• Could be a big day for political-side stories.
  
• Liker birds of a feather, perjurers stick together. With Eric Holder's DOJ, it is 'Perjury for me, but not for thee.'
  
• "Maybe it is time for him to get another job.” Bombs continue to fall on Holder Ridge. This latest one is a blockbuster. The Second Front is here.
  
• The Monty Python defense. My goodness. Joltin' Joe Lieberman announces a Senate Homeland Security investigation on F&F "inter-ageny miscommunication" and the head of Border Patrol runs away the very same day.
  

December 24:

• Armed American Radio producer posts Gunwalker interview with Gun Rights Examiner
  

December 26:

• "Things will most likely get ugly." The selective leaks go on apace, trying to convince us that Gunwalker was all the fault of Melson & below.
  
• Well, well. All you Utahns who are a little bit miffed about the Gunwalker Conspiracy. One of the conspirators is coming to a neighborhood near you.
  

December 27:

• Holder’s OIG ’Gunwalker’ investigation passes historic milestone today
  
• Wonderful! George Soros continues to waste his money on limp d!ck Media Matters. And Rachel Madcow still obsesses over me. I'm touched.
  

December 28:

• Administration/media collaboration continues Gunwalker misdirection
  
• Sipsey Street Exclusive: "Personnel is policy." Part One. Who Dennis Burke is and why he was sent to Phoenix.
  

December 29:

• ATF management to treat Gunwalker crimes as personnel policy violations
  
• This smells of clandestine gunwalking. There's a federal government snitch somewhere in this, I'd bet a bottle of Bushmill's Irish Whiskey on it.
  

December 30:

• Light posting this morning. Moving some of my papers to the BPL archives.
  

December 31:

• Well, it seems I am one of the "Fabulous Fifty Bloggers"
  
• Taking Stock. Two losers for 2011 -- the Brady Bunch and the Mexican people.
• KUHNER: Will Obama steal the 2012 election? "When democracy turns to tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote."
  
• Reality Check.
  

January 1:

• AP ‘top 10’ list confirms media still ignoring Fast and Furious story
  
• Supporter of "assault weapons bans" criticizes Eric Holder's clandestine operation to achieve a new one.
  

January 2:

• An insult to honest penguins everywhere.
  
• The Fifth Estate. "The biggest little story of 2011."
  

January 3:

• Attention Fibbies! Sipsey Street $10,000 Reward Offered for Whatever Blackmail Photos the FBI has on Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff.
  

January 4:

• Attorney General Holder to testify Feb. 2 on Fast and Furious
  
• Breaking: ATF reportedly relieves Fast and Furious managers prior to OIG report
  
• Well, isn't this a fine pickle? Holder hearing shifted to 2 February.
  
• SSI Exclusive: The Cover-up Stonewall Continues. Eric Holder's ATF Kabuki Play in advance of the February hearing designed to deflect blame from higher ups, including himself. Hoover, Chait and McMahon among the designated sacrificial goats.
  

January 5:

• Reuters reports on ATF 'Gunwalker' reassignments day after GRE, SSI
  
• Sipsey Street Exclusive: "Personnel is policy." Part Two: Dennis Burke's Powerful Friends and How They Are Still Paying Him Dividends in His Disgrace.
  
• Reuters a day late and a scoop short.
  
• White House still pimpin' the "Bush made us do it" meme.
  

January 6:

• Open letter to Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley on anticipated gunwalking report (GRE)
  
• "The latest shakeup was first reported by the website Sipsey Street Irregulars."
  
• Lighting candles and cursing the darkness. "Politically speaking, the 'gun control movement' is an elitist exercise in limp-d!ckery." How this explains the Gunwalker Conspiracy. "We had a plan."
  
• Open letter to Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley on anticipated OIG Fast and Furious report (SSI).
  
• Breaking News by way of a Sipsey Street Exclusive: ATF Chief Counsel Rubenstein retiring 31 January. Another rat leaves the sinking ship. Plus, they're all acting now.
  
• Perjurers' Row. Gunwalkers of a feather flock together. Holder & ATF's McMahon at Agent John Capano's Funeral.
  

January 7:

• When Gunwalker finally threatens Obama, it will be Rahm Emanuel who takes the chop for it.
  
• Eric Holder, Time to Pay Your Trentadues?
  
• Sipsey Street mentions in the media.
  
• David Codrea to speak tonight in Montgomeryville PA to Tea Party group.
  

January 9:

• Why are Holder and McMahon shoulder-to-shoulder after sidelining?
  
• Another F&F weapon used in the killing of an American law enforcement officer?
  

January 10:

• Can administration rely on Guatemalan STD defense against ‘Gunwalker’ claims?
  
• Remember, Utahns, Gunwalker Conspirator Eric Holder's coming to SLC on Friday. Lickspittle Mark Shurtleff is already pre-orgasmic.
  
• This just in from Sean: Closeout on Gunwalker Teeshirts.
  

January 11:

• Some records in the Terry murder case could be unsealed. Some, maybe, if. . .
  

January 12:

• Coming soon -- under oath -- to a theater near you.
  
• The Gunwalker Conspirators' Lame Excuse #3: The NRA made them do it.
  

January 14:

• Holder in Salt Lake City. As a Threeper does some guerrilla picketing, Eric thanks his lickspittle Shurtleff.
  
• Black-robed scoundrels strike again, upholding Demand Letter #3.
  

January 16:

• "Fast & Furious, From A Law Enforcement Perspective."
  

January 18:

• Excellent article from the Foreign Policy Blogs by Kathleen Millar. Brian Terry, Jesus Diaz, Dakota Meyer: Justice in 2012?
  

January 19:

• Breaking: Issa subpoenas AZ US Attorney Criminal Division Chief
  

January 20:

• AZ US Attorney Criminal Division Chief to plead the Fifth
  
• FINALLY. Fifth Amendment Time in the Gunwalker Scandal. FOX breaks the story I knew was coming yesterday: "Federal official in Arizona to plead the fifth and not answer questions on 'furious'" But, is the fix in? Issa staff reported to have witheld information from Grassley. "The roach motel of press inquiries."
  
• Never let a good crisis go to waste, even if you have to manufacture one.
  
• Panhandling for DC.
  
• Patrick Cunningham training video
  

January 21:

• About bloody time.
  

January 24:

• Ask Obama about Gunwalker
  
• Issa on Cunningham: 'We are still going to bring him forward'
  

January 25:

• What have been effects of politics and new media on 'Gunwalker'?
• Ignorant or lying? An open letter to Rep. Hank Johnson
• Sipsey Street Exclusive: Fifth Amendment Theater. A Whole Flock of Designated Goats. The Issa Committee will have an announcement in the morning.

January 26:

• Breaking: Issa demands access to second 'Fast and Furious' US Attorney
• I can understand why he wants to get out of town. Darrell Issa flies off to Davos to hobnob with the global elite, leaving us to wonder just what the hell he has in mind for Eric Holder.

From other Gun Rights Examiners:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Holder plays race card in NY Times profile
• BREAKING! Issa asks Holder to testify in January
• Gowdy and Greta: Who is Holder protecting in Fast & Furious?
  
• BREAKING: Border Patrol commissioner leaving; Lieberman blasts process
  
• Looking back on 2011 and its biggest stories, Pt. I
  
• Why the silence from WA congressional delegation on Fast & Furious?
  
• New Year’s Resolution? Follow Fast & Furious to the end
  
• BREAKING: Holder to testify Feb. 2 before House Oversight Committee
  
• Speculation rampant on reported ATF moves involving key Fast & Furious players
  
• Grassley: New docs prove Admin knew about gun walking
  
• Correction and apology…and some questions about Fast & Furious
  
• Some Fast & Furious documents relating to Terry murder could be released
  
• Groan..not again! Operation ‘White Gun’ another ATF foul-up?
  
• Issa subpoenas Phoenix DOJ official over Fast & Furious
  
• Fast & Furious follow-up: Cunningham to take Fifth!
  
• The earthquake irony of ‘Taking the Fifth’ in Fast & Furious
  
• What NOT to expect from State of the Union message
  
• New term for gun prohibitionists doesn’t change their agenda
  
• Issa to Holder: ‘Major escalation of DOJ’s culpability’ in Fast & Furious
  
• Obama coming to Seattle: Maybe someone will ask about F&F
  
• BREAKING: Issa demands access to another US Attorney in F&F probe
  

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Brady Campaign defends 'never letting a (manufactured) crisis go to waste
• Holder still believes U.S. a 'nation of cowards,' counts on it
  
• CSGV demands information from gun industry; not from Holder, Clinton
  
• Brady Campaign underpants gnome Dennis Henigan missing the news?