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Operations Fast & Furious

MeeMie said:
Operations Fast & Furious - the Gunrunner Scandal




Back in February, American Thinker reported:

Death in the Desert: Project Gunwalker and the ATF Cover-Up


On December 14, 2010, a firefight erupted in the Arizona desert. When the smoke had cleared, Customs and Border Protection Agent Brian Terry was dead, and the seeds of a scandal had been sown. Some of the rank and file of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), often referred to as the ATF, began to grow concerned that a new development in Project Gunrunner probably had resulted in the death of Agent Terry.

First word of the incident began to appear on CleanUpATF.org, a whistle-blower website dedicated to "returning the integrity, accountability and decency to the ATF." Two Second Amendment advocates, Mike Vanderboegh of the blog Sipsey Street Irregulars and David Codrea, a writer at Gun Rights Examiner.com, became immediately aware of the posts, and their interest pushed them to collaborate and use their own sources within the ATF to confirm the allegations being made.

The pair independently corroborated the existence of a deviation from Project Gunrunner which they began to sardonically refer to as Project Gunwalker. Sources told them of the unstated policy to provide assault weapons to straw buyers, who would walk the guns over the border and sell them to members of the Mexican drug cartels for the purpose of manufacturing evidence.

One source of resistance to this development came from Darren Gil, then ATF attaché to Mexico, who felt strongly that the Mexican authorities should be made aware of the change in tactics. Gil brought his concerns to Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Office William D. Newell. Despite Gil's insistence, Newell refused to inform Mexico of the Bureau's intent. Frustrated and considering Newell's refusal to be a significant international policy error, Gil went to Newell's superiors in Washington. One can only speculate as to the conversations that took place, but Gil has since retired from the ATF.

With no further objections, the cynical plan allegedly was put into effect, and a string of subsequent events were unleashed. If played right, however, the Obama administration would get their "evidence," and the ATF could count on increased resources to pursue the very problem they were facilitating. That did not take into account the events that unfolded on the night of December 14 -- events which resulted in the death of Agent Terry.

Vanderboegh and Codrea relentlessly pursued the facts as presented to them by numerous and separate sources. They recognized that if true, the allegations would spell a serious breach of the public trust and the prospect of criminal activity within the ATF.

Finally, with facts in hand, they sought protection for their sources before going public. They approached several staff members on the Senate Judiciary Committee. They were directed from one person to the next. It was a struggle to ensure the safety of the agents putting their lives and careers on the line to expose the actions of the ATF. Eventually, Vanderboegh and Codrea obtained assurances that their informants would come under the whistle-blower protections offered by Senator Grassley of Iowa, ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.


What follows is an excerpt of a letter from Grassley to Acting Director of the ATF Melson:

Members of the Judiciary Committee have received numerous allegations that the ATF sanctioned the sale of hundreds of assault weapons to suspected straw purchasers, who then allegedly transported these weapons throughout the southwestern border area and into Mexico. According to the allegations, one of these individuals purchased three assault rifles with cash in Glendale, Arizona on January 16, 2010. Two of the weapons were then allegedly used in a firefight on December 14, 2010 against Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents, killing CBP Agent Brian Terry.​




On January 30, 2011, there came word that the ATF in Phoenix, instead of helping Senator Grassley get to the bottom of the allegations, had begun to exert retaliatory pressure against agents suspected of blowing the whistle on the operation.

The following is an excerpt from the subsequent letter sent from Grassley to Acting Director Melson upon hearing of the retaliation:

As you know, I wrote you on Thursday, January 27, regarding serious allegations associated with Project Gunrunner and the death of Customs and Protection Agent Brian Terry. Although the staff briefing I requested has not been scheduled, it appears that the ATF is reacting in less productive ways to my request. I understand that Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) George Gillette of the ATF's Phoenix office questioned one of the individual agents who answered my staff's questions about Project Gunrunner.​



Mike Vanderboegh is now reporting that the answer to this letter from Senator Grassley has been the January 31 promotion of William D. Newell to Darren Gil's previous position of Mexican attaché to the ATF. Theoretically, this would leave Gillette -- a person already alleged by the whistle-blowers to be deeply involved in coercion of the informants -- in charge of the Phoenix office.
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The Mexican drug violence is a fraud being exploited by the government as a means of restricting gun rights and enacting tougher gun laws. There is even evidence that the US government itself (FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF) is behind the Mexican drug war as a whole.
 
The failed war on drugs is the driving force in the Mexican drug wars, that and the incompetent corruption of their Hacienda Government...
 
I have always figured that enough of the Right People were getting paid so that the War on Drugs was doomed to failure out of the gate.



If Capone had only filed his taxes . . . .
 
Frisco_Slug_Esq said:
Mark Steyn
NRO

Now if this was Reagan...
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...then nothing. The Teflon Don sold cocaine to American kids while his wife made an international splash with her "Just say no" crap. It's all documented and everyone knows it, but no one ever talks about it.
 
Peregrinator said:
...then nothing. The Teflon Don sold cocaine to American kids while his wife made an international splash with her "Just say no" crap. It's all documented and everyone knows it, but no one ever talks about it.
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Plausible deniabity, if I recall.

It was wrong then.

It's wrong now.

I'm all for letting the sun shine on this.
 
Peregrinator said:
...then nothing. The Teflon Don sold cocaine to American kids while his wife made an international splash with her "Just say no" crap. It's all documented and everyone knows it, but no one ever talks about it.
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can ANYONE actually link teh reality to me on this please?

THX
 
But almost a decade later, in 1998, Kerry's trailblazing investigation was vindicated by the CIA's own inspector general, who found that scores of Contra operatives were implicated in the cocaine trade and that U.S. agencies had looked the other way rather than reveal information that could have embarrassed the Reagan-Bush administration.

Even after the CIA's admissions, the national press corps never fully corrected its earlier dismissive treatment. That would have meant the New York Times and other leading publications admitting they had bungled their coverage of one of the worst scandals of the Reagan-Bush era.





And



On April 17, 1986, the Reagan Administration released a three page report acknowledging that there were some Contra-cocaine connections in 1984 and 1985, arguing that these connections occurred at a time when the rebels were "particularly hard pressed for financial support" because U.S. aid had been cut off. The report admitted that "We have evidence of a limited number of incidents in which known drug traffickers have tried to establish connections with Nicaraguan resistance groups." The report tried to downplay the drug activity, claiming that it took place "without the authorization of resistance leaders."[6]
 
Here's a thought: When your operations are being named after idiot kid's movies, there is a good chance that the people planning your operations are ....... idiot kids. At heart/mind, if not in chronological age.

I can't wait to hear about Operation Wedding Crasher... Well, yes I can.
 
Wat_Tyler said:
I have always figured that enough of the Right People were getting paid so that the War on Drugs was doomed to failure out of the gate.
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The War on Drugs was doomed from its inception. By people who failed to learn the lesson of history from Prohibition.

Anything that helps ugly people get laid is not going away.

Imagine what Viagra, Cialis, et al would cost if they declared a war on those drugs!
 
White House Still Won’t Say When Obama Learned About DOJ’s Gun-Running Scheme…


It’s almost like they’re hiding something.

(CNS News) – White House Spokesman Jay Carney has failed to follow-up on a statement he made at the June 27 White House briefing that he would get back to a reporter with the exact date that President Barack Obama first became aware of “Operation Fast and Furious,” a botched sting operation in which U.S. officials knowingly allowed smugglers to buy guns at licensed U.S. firearms dealers.

On June 27, CNSNews.com asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, “Could you tell me what is the exact date that the president learned about the Justice Department ATF operation to allow guns to flow into Mexico?”

Carney apparently had trouble understanding the question, saying, “I mean, I think I’ve answered this question a bunch about — about what he learned?”

CNSNews.com said, “What is the exact date that he learned about it?”

Carney apparently still did not understand. “The exact thing that he learned?”

CNSNews.com again clarified, “Exact date — date.”

Carney finally responded, “I’ll have to get back to you. I don’t have an exact date for you.”

The White House has since not responded to questions about an exact date or approximate date when Obama learned about the operation.

The next day, June 28, CNSNews.com sent a follow-up e-mail to Carney. Then on July 6, CNSNews.com e-mailed Carney and the White House press office, and called the White House press office to ask for the exact date the president became aware of “Operation Fast and Furious.” In lieu of a precise date, CNSNews.com said an approximate date of a month and year would be helpful.

Neither Carney nor another White House spokesperson replied.
 
Flashback – March 24, 2009. Announcement of Operation Fast and Furious.


“The President has directed us….. “
 
Nixon had no intention of resigning until his own informed him they were against him on Watergate.

RE: Project Gun Runner and Operation Fast and Furious...

...this administration has lied to Congress (and, ie, to the People), has intentionally misled Congress, has intentionally interfered with at least one witness desiring to testify to Congress, and has intentionally been uncooperative with the current Congressional investigation into the murder of one United States citizen, who knows how many Mexican murders, and all the while abetting an infamously lethal criminal enterprise.

Yet...

...as long as President Obama's pollsters stroke him with positive, supportive numbers within his own camp, I have no doubt he'll aim to ride it out just like Nixon did.

Nixon betrayed the American people...

...I just wished he would've hung on to be impeached and then removed from office; resignation - the first one in the history of America - was too easy of a way out for a President who certainly was "a crook".

President Obama has betrayed the American people...

...he either needs to take total responsibility and completely clear the air on this issue - putting himself at the great mercy of the American people - or he needs to be impeached.

Sadly, though...

...his own supporters, unlike Nixon's, will be the ones giving him a free pass.
 
eyer said:
...he either needs to take total responsibility and completely clear the air on this issue - putting himself at the great mercy of the American people - or he needs to be impeached.

Sadly, though...

...his own supporters, unlike Nixon's, will be the ones giving him a free pass.
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Kind of reminds me of the mindless morons who idolized that paperhanging son of a bitch.
 
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