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As society once again debates gun control legislation the Department of Justice is preparing to release documents related to a government gun trafficking scheme that started with the Bush Administration and continued for several years into the Obama Administration. The scheme allowed criminals linked to drug cartels to purchase thousands of weapons destined to be smuggled into Mexico.

Reuters reports, "The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday it has reached an agreement with congressional investigators to hand over confidential records about a failed gun trafficking investigation during the Obama administration known as “Operation Fast and Furious.”

Guns tracked by the ATF have been found at crime scenes on both sides of the Mexico–United States border, and the scene where the United States Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in December 2010. The "gunwalking" operations became public in the aftermath of Terry's murder. According to Humberto Benítez Treviño, a former Mexican Attorney General, related firearms were found at crime scenes in Mexico where at least 150 Mexican civilians were maimed or killed. Revelations of the scheme led to controversy in both countries, and diplomatic relations were damaged.

As a result of a dispute over the release of Justice Department documents related to the scandal, Attorney General Eric Holder became the first sitting member of a US Cabinet to be held in contempt of Congress on June 28, 2012, and earlier that month, President Barack Obama invoked executive privilege for the first time in his presidency over the same documents.

In a statement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department is “committed to transparency” and will agree to share documents with the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that had previously been withheld before President Donald Trump took office.

 

A former Democrat turned the latest token Black spokesperson for the NRA and Republicans got her 15 minutes of fame by making an absurd claim that the NRA was founded as a "civil rights" organization that "armed and trained" Black people to protect them from the KKK. Most people, except for the most gullible among us know this is nonsense and represents blatant lying on her part. If her goal is to recruit Black people to the defense of the NRA, she is failing miserably.

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Shonda Rhimes an American television producer, screenwriter, and the author has had an influence on the modern programming of American television is best known as the creator, head writer, executive producer the political drama show Scandal which airs on ABC.

The show Scandal which has a history of creating buzzes in the media is buzzing again after publishing a powerful anti-slavery prison reform scene on its Facebook page that has been viewed almost 2 million times. The scene consists of an attorney making an argument to SCOTUS that slavery was never abolished and racism is rife in the criminal justice system which feeds profits to the private prison owners.  Although the 13th Amendment was not mentioned by name. it is the amendment that legalized slavery and involuntary servitude for all "duly convicted" of crimes. Systemic 6th Amendment issues concerning speedy trials and how racism preventing a just process for non-white defendants are also made.

The powerful and education performance was delivered by Viola Davis, the star of the popular tv program "How To Get Away With Murder".

Sources: How To Get Away With Scandal, https://www.facebook.com/ScandalABC/videos/2040449452651493/?t=2

Scandal and HTGAWM Crossover: Annalise and Olivia Go to the Supreme Court, http://www.tvguide.com/news/scandal-how-to-get-away-with-murder-crossover-recap-annalise-olivia-supreme-court/

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"When Lamonte McIntyre was exonerated for a double murder in October, he walked out of a Kansas prison with a clean record – but not a dime to his name, reports CBS News' Dean Reynolds. After losing 23 years of his life behind bars, the state is offering him nothing."

Sources: CBS https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kansas-man-wrongfully-imprisoned-23-years-no-compensation-from-state/

CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS http://www.kssos.org/other/pubs/KS_Constitution.pdf

Innocence Project https://www.innocenceproject.org/

The Black Talk Media Project seeks to reverse the damaging impact of the 1996 Telecommunications Act on Black radio, the heartbeat of the Black community. Help us create New Black Media For The New Millennium. You can support the Black Talk Media Project in three ways.

1. Make a donation via Paypal or by sending a check or money order made out to the US-based non-profit media organization Black Talk Media Project.

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Checks or money orders made out to Black Talk Media Project, PO Box 65, Mt. Holly, NC 28120.

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