{"id":4178,"date":"2011-07-08T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/07\/08\/quote-of-day_08-3\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:15:22","slug":"quote-of-day_08-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4178","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17311,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/armsandthelaw.com\\\/archives\\\/2011\\\/07\\\/acting_director.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260215042721\\\/https:\\\/\\\/armsandthelaw.com\\\/archives\\\/2011\\\/07\\\/acting_director.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 08:05:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 01:26:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 01:26:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/armsandthelaw.com\/archives\/2011\/07\/acting_director.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Hardy at Of Arms and the Law has an excellent analysis<\/a> of Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson&#8217;s interview with House Oversight Committee investigators&nbsp;and the timing of it. What makes Melson&#8217;s actions even more remarkable is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I&#8217;ve never heard of an agency head defecting, as it were. Closest think I can think of is John Dean, counsel to the President, meeting secretly with investigators during Watergate, and maybe &#8220;deep throat,&#8221; Mark Felt, who was Associate Director of the FBI, leaking to the press. And Watergate involved quite a bit less than running thousands of guns to the most violent criminals on earth with fatal results. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIt is important to remember that both Watergate and Project Gunwalker involved the subversion of constitutional rights. The former involved the&nbsp;subversion of elections and the latter&nbsp;is an attempt to build support for the subversion of the Second Amendment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No one died because of Watergate. I wish we could say the same about Project Gunwalker.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Hardy at Of Arms and the Law has an excellent analysis of Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson&#8217;s interview&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[425,544,3734],"class_list":["post-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dave-hardy","tag-project-gunwalker","tag-watergate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6939,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions\/6939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}