Operations Fast & Furious

For two years, the mainstream media has been hustling the government line that federally regulated firearm dealers are the virtual sole source of firearms acquired by the multi-billion dollar Mexican drug cartels. But the truth is those vast, ruthless criminal enterprises obey no laws. As U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said during congressional hearings, the cartels are “incredibly rich—with billions of dollars of drug money. … to buy anything they want anywhere in the world in vast quantities.”

With black market surplus full-automatic AK’s and Vietnam-era M16s easily available, combined with master gun-running criminals on the level of the cartels, the notion that cartels are arming themselves from average gun stores is nuts.

To show that murder weapons in Mexico could originate in U.S. gun shops, superiors at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) made it happen through “Operation Fast and Furious.” Over the objection of gun dealers who reported suspected criminal activity, BATFE refused to allow street agents to make arrests of actual criminals and gun smugglers. All of this was done so that those guns would “walk,” thus ending up in Mexico to be traced from the scenes of bloodletting back to dealers who did everything right.

In one of the best descriptions of “Fast and Furious,” Robert Farago wrote in the Washington Times that “ …The agency’s motive for creating a program that violated Mexican sovereignty and put innocent lives at risk: inflating the number of American firearms recovered at Mexican crime scenes. The more blood-soaked American guns in Mexico the ATF could identify for its congressional paymasters, the more compelling its case for increased federal funding and new agency-enforced gun-control regulations. In short, ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ was an anti-gun-running gun-running program.”

http://www.nrapublications.org/index.php/11324/standing-guard-18/

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BREAKING:
Document Makes Direct Link Between Holder and Fast and Furious Debacle




On May 3rd, 2011, Obama Attorney General Eric Holder testified UNDER OATH that he only just learned of the failed and deadly Fast and Furious operation that led to the death of a U.S. Border Agent and numerous civilians in Mexico.


CBS News is now reporting on a just-released document that confirms Attorney General Holder was sent a briefing on the operation as far back as July 2010.

Holder is now stating he did not fully understand the question put before him by the Congressional committee – saying he knew about Operation Fast and Furious but did not at that time know all the details.

The briefing though clearly contradicts Attorney General Holder’s newly revised position – as well as making a very strong case that he knowingly lied under oath.

Here is a portion of that memo sent to Eric Holder, which was given the very interesting title of “Media Exploitation Support…”:
http://media.hotair.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ff.jpg


"Eric Holder has to be brought before an investigative committee, and if those charges are warranted, he needs to be held accountable..."
Rep. Allen West (R-FL)
 
BREAKING:
Document Makes Direct Link Between Holder and Fast and Furious Debacle




On May 3rd, 2011, Obama Attorney General Eric Holder testified UNDER OATH that he only just learned of the failed and deadly Fast and Furious operation that led to the death of a U.S. Border Agent and numerous civilians in Mexico.


CBS News is now reporting on a just-released document that confirms Attorney General Holder was sent a briefing on the operation as far back as July 2010.

Holder is now stating he did not fully understand the question put before him by the Congressional committee – saying he knew about Operation Fast and Furious but did not at that time know all the details.

The briefing though clearly contradicts Attorney General Holder’s newly revised position – as well as making a very strong case that he knowingly lied under oath.

Here is a portion of that memo sent to Eric Holder, which was given the very interesting title of “Media Exploitation Support…”:
http://media.hotair.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ff.jpg


"Eric Holder has to be brought before an investigative committee, and if those charges are warranted, he needs to be held accountable..."
Rep. Allen West (R-FL)

In other words the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the US lied to Congress.
 
Holder is now stating he did not fully understand the question put before him by the Congressional committee – saying he knew about Operation Fast and Furious but did not at that time know all the details.


Question: "When did you first know about the program officially called, I believe, Fast and Furious? To the best of your knowledge what date?

Answer: "I'm not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."

Nothing in the question asks about any details other than the date. Nothing in the answer addresses any details other than a general estimation of the date being within "the last few weeks."

Simple question. Simple answer. No request to restate the question for clarification. What's to misunderstand?

Lying cocksucker.
 
Question: "When did you first know about the program officially called, I believe, Fast and Furious? To the best of your knowledge what date?

Answer: "I'm not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."

Nothing in the question asks about any details other than the date. Nothing in the answer addresses any details other than a general estimation of the date being within "the last few weeks."

Simple question. Simple answer. No request to restate the question for clarification. What's to misunderstand?

Lying cocksucker.


Eric Holder Attacking The Second Amendment To Help Mexico?

2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kugIWUxhHeY
 
2009

Atty. Gen'l Eric Holder, fresh from a visit to Mexico -- whose escalating drug war has spilled into the United States as well -- had said during his Senate confirmation hearing that he supports reinstatement of the assault weapons ban. But "he's been silent on the subject since,'' CBS News notes.

"Did someone tell you to back off?'' Evening News anchor Katie Couric asks the attorney general, in the second part of her interview of Holder airing this evening.

"No one's told me to back off,'' replies Holder, who goes on to make several more guarded statements on the subject. "I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment.''

ERIC HOLDER: Well, I think the thing we need to do is come up with those things we can do right away. And we're gonna be moving 100 ATF agents to the border. About 26 DEA agents to the border. And that will happen over the next 30 days or so. And I think that will have a pretty dramatic impact on reducing the flow of weapons into Mexico.

(TRACK) But the guns being purchased and used in the US has also become front and center, given that a recent series of mass shootings from southern Alabama sound up to upstate New York have killed 57 people. While The Attorney General said he supported reinstating the assault weapons ban during his confirmation hearing, he's been silent on the subject since.


http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/04/eric_holder_i_respect_2nd_amen.html
 
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