The Right to Know

As of Thursday, June 28, 2012

In North Carolina and other states, we have what is known as the “open meetings” law. This law is in place to keep the people informed of their business, and the honesty and integrity of their elected officials.

Any violation of this law, no matter how small, brings on screaming and gnashing of teeth by the press, which in most cases is justified.

However, we now have in Washington a situation known as “Fast and Furious,” which involves the selling of weapons to drug cartels south of the U.S. border to track the whereabouts of these cartels. As a result of this operation, a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed with one of these weapons. The parents of this young man justifiably want answers to what happened.

The Attorney General of the U.S., even though subpoenaed, has failed to turn over the requested documents. The president could solve this problem by requiring the attorney general to simply turn over what was requested. Instead of doing this, the president has invoked “executive privilege,” which indicates they both have something to hide.

The biased liberal press thus far has conveniently swept this matter under the rug with very little coverage. If the president and the attorney general were Republican, I guarantee you they would be all over it.

I say to my friends in the press, the people have the right to know, and where are you on this one?

A. C. Robertson

Aberdeen

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jimt 10 months, 3 weeks ago

"..we now have in Washington a situation known as “Fast and Furious,” which involves the selling of weapons to drug cartels south of the U.S. border to track the whereabouts of these cartels."

That is simply not true. Fast and Furious was not created to send weapons to drug cartels in Mexico in order to track the whereabout of these cartels. You might be interested in reading the entire article about Fast in Furious in the current edition of Fortune Magazine, which I posted in response to an earlier letter that The Pilot published a few days ago. The letter is: "Obama is Acting More Like A Despot." I think you will find that it is worth the investment of your time given your very real concern about misdeeds that took place during Fast and Furious.

You'll also read, if you decide to do so, that critics of the Administration immediately ape the usual party line that the Article is written as part of a liberal conspiracy, that Fortune is owned by CNN, which has a liberal agenda, and so on. Read and judge for yourself, which none of the Article's critics botherd to do.

dustyrhoades 10 months, 3 weeks ago

The biased liberal press thus far has conveniently swept this matter under the rug with very little coverage.

This is all you need to read to realize that the writer is living in a fantasy of his own deranged creation. This story's been on the news every single night.