The Sgt. Schultz defense: "I know nothing!"

Anyone remember the TV show, Hogan's Heroes? It was about Ally prisoners in a German POW camp in WWII. Sgt. Schultz was a camp guard who often stumbled upon the espionage and sabotage done by the POWs. However, Schultz didn't want to be transfered to the Eastern Front, didn't want to rock the boat. So whenever he came upon some plan the POWs had cooked up, he just shut his eyes and walked away. His standard lines were: "I know nothing! I see nothing!"

That used to be funny. Such cowardice and corruption.

Now it's the hallmark of the US Dept. of Justice and especially its director, Eric Holder.

So Holder and his people apparently were informed about Fast & Furious, a program whereby agents of Mexican drug cartels were allowed to buy all kinds of high-powered weaponry in the USA and ship it to the criminal drug gangs in Mexico. Apparently about 1,500 guns -- maybe more, I've heard a range of numbers -- were allowed to "walk" across the border into the welcome arms of the drug lords.

The BATF and other agencies received complaints from gun dealers. The dealers reported that a host of shady characters were milling around their stores with wads of money. The BATF and apparently FBI as well told the gun dealers, "Go ahead. Make the sales." In one or two cases, the agents even videotaped the sales with a hidden camera in a gun shop.

The federal agents seemed to believe the guns would be tracked in Mexico and would lead them to the gang members and encampments. Maybe. Who knows?

The result was, the feds lost track of the guns. However, one weapon did show up next to the dead body an ICE agent. Apparently it was used by a drug runner to kill the ICE agent, Brian Terry. So at least the feds found one of the guns, huh?

So Rep. Darryl Issa (R-CA) is running a congressional investigation into this whole affair. Eric Holder, head of the Dept of Justice, and the ultimate boss of the FBI and the BATF, has testified twice in front of Issa's committee.

The first time, Holder took the Sgt. Schultz defense: "I know nothing." He whined that the DoJ is big operation and he can't, after all, be expected to know what his employees are doing.

My queston at the time: So what is this dumb ass getting paid for?

Well, then a bunch of emails and memos have turned up, documenting the fact that Eric Holder had been informed about the Fast & Furious program. Holder says he doesn't read the information his deputies and agencies send to him.

My question again: So what is this dumb ass getting paid for?

Furthermore, there's documentation that indicates that Eric Holder is lying through his teeth. He calls these lies "inaccuracies." Yeah. That they are. Deliberate inaccuraces? That would make them "lies" wouldn't it?

So what is this dumb ass getting paid for?

Meanwhile, since Fast & Furious first came to the public's attention -- largely via the murder of Officer Brian Terry -- it's been suggested that Holder et. al. advanced the whole program to deliberately get American-made weapons into Mexico. Why? So that a case could be made to clamp down harder on US gun manufacturers, dealers, and eventually gun owners.

And guess what? A few democrats in congress are pointing to Fast & Furious and claimng: "See? Now we have to clamp down harder on US gun manufacturers, dealers, and eventually restrict gun ownership rights."

Funny how that how all works out, isn't it? Create a freakish mess, blame the victims, and use it as a reason to tighten the government's reach and control.

Gee.... where do we see that scenario played out... over and over and over again?

And apparently following Eric Holder's brilliant strategy, John Corzine, former US Senator and former Governor of New Jersey, former head of Goldman Sachs fnancial firm, is also using the Sgt. Schultz defense in a unhappy situation of his own.

When Corzine left as Gov. of New Jersey, he became part of a firm called MF Global, an investment company that seems to have sunk lots of money into European ventures -- many of which are currently spiraling the drain.

So the feds apparently launched some sort of investigaton into his activities. And as it turns out, there's something like $1.2 BILLION of investments that Corzine and MF Global have simply lost track of.

Look, investors aren't all fat cats. There are, for example, "institutional investors" that buy all kinds of bonds and stocks and such to support various programs -- often county or municipal pension funds and things like that. There also are private investors, people who maybe saved $200,000 over their lifetimes and invested it to fund their retirement.

So these are the investors in MF Global. With the missing $1.2 BILLION.

On the show The Five, Kimberley Guilfoyle wondered exactly how you could misplace $1.2 BILLION dollars. She noted it's not like quarters falling out of a hole your pocket.

When asked about these missing funds, Corzine told congress: "I don't know what happened to it."

I know nothing! I see nothing!

Corzine admits he was responsible for MF Global's business operations, but he doesn't seem too interested in figuring out what happened to all that money -- or in making any kind of reparations for it. He just might end up in jail. We can only hope. He could share a cell with Bernie Madoff.

And these are the people who are running things?

Good God...

Save the Republic.