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Operations Fast & Furious

Day 469 - still no outrage from the general public.

Even AJ hasn't bumped this thread in months.
 
vetteman said:
Watchdog report says DOJ official retaliated against ‘Furious’ whistle-blower, lied about it
By William La Jeunesse
Published May 20, 2013
FoxNews.com

The former U.S. Attorney for Arizona could be disbarred, after an investigation found he lied to the Justice Department about his role in trying to discredit the federal whistle-blower who exposed the botched gun-running scheme known as Fast and Furious.

An Office of Inspector General report showed that Dennis Burke -- the former chief of staff for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appointed as U.S. Attorney for Arizona by President Obama in September 2009 -- lied when asked if he leaked sensitive documents to the press meant to undermine the credibility of ATF whistle-blower John Dodson.
The IG report also said Burke likely leaked the memo in retaliation for Dodson's whistle-blowing, and challenged the credibility of statements he made to congressional investigators. Dodson first went to Congress in 2010 after his own agency and the Justice Department refused to investigate his complaints that Operation Fast and Furious, an anti-gun-trafficking effort, was out of control.

"We also concluded that Burke's disclosure of the Dodson memorandum was likely motivated by a desire to undermine Dodson's public criticisms of Operation Fast and Furious. Although Burke denied to congressional investigators that he had any retaliatory motive for his actions, we found substantial evidence to the contrary," the IG report, released Monday, said.
Dodson appeared before Congress in June 2011. At the time, the Department of Justice denied his claim that the federal government approved a plan to knowingly assist criminals in smuggling thousands of guns to the Mexican drug cartels.

Dodson's credibility was crucial since nearly everyone above him denied the allegation. The report found that Burke leaked information that sought to undermine Dodson's story to a Fox News producer.

"The report brings into question, yet again, the treatment that whistle-blowers receive from this administration," Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said Monday. "Instead of examining the allegations that came forward, the Justice Department almost immediately began to attack the credibility and good name of a dedicated federal agent upset with what he was ordered to do."

Burke used his private email account to leak the information to a friend in Washington who then hand-delivered the information to the Fox producer. The IG said in its report it used an "administrative subpoena" to identify the personal email of relevant Department employees to confirm the leak.
Once contacted by IG staff, Burke admitted he was the source. The IG's office had asked 150 Justice Department employees to affirm they were not the leak.

But the report said he gave misleading information to congressional investigators. Asked about the issue by congressional investigators, Burke said: "I was under the impression that (the Dodson memo) had gone to the Hill and that I was basically giving (the Fox producer) a time advantage."
He also allegedly misled his own superior in Washington, Assistant Attorney General James Cole.

At the time, Cole had seen a New York Times story about Fast and Furious. In it, the paper published a picture which showed the document had been faxed from the U.S. attorney's office in Arizona. When confronted, the report said Burke told Cole, "I don't think we have a fax machine."

The IG report claims Burke was "admonished by Deputy Attorney General Cole for lying to him ... and had been put on notice such disclosures should not occur."

After speaking with Burke, Cole wrote "another horrible incident of bad judgment." The following day, Aug. 13, Burke resigned.

Fox News tried unsuccessfully to contact Burke, who recently formed a security and lobbying firm with former Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf and Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano's Chief of Staff Noah Kroloff.
The Office of Inspector General is an investigative arm that monitors the Justice Department. It tried to interview Burke, but he resigned.

The IG said Burke violated numerous federal and professional rules of conduct and it would forward a copy of its report to the Arizona State Bar Association for disciplinary conduct.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...e-blower/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn#ixzz2TsjH8wSS
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No one cares about dead mexicans except at election time.
 
Sean Renaud said:
Game over. Just admit you lost, we'll respect you much more.
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Is it really? Are we becoming the post Soviet Soviet?

Turn it into the "Game of Thrones" and everybody losses. And in case you've failed to notice, the is exactly what's going on.

Divide et Imperum.

Ishmael
 
^^^^^ This would be a good article if you were a pro-gun control liberal. As pro-gun conservative though it just shows your personal hatred for Obama and lack of reason.
 
vetteman said:
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Actually what it shows it the Obama/Holder killer team and their dumb ideas are still a threat to mankind everywhere. They're too incompetent to be responsible for the public safety.
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It shows no such thing. You constantly claim that gun control is a failure because criminals will find away to get guns. These are criminals and they found away to get guns. According to you it should be that simple. It's not because you want there to be something wrong with Holder and Obama.

Now if you're position was we need gun control and look these people would be alive if we had gun control that prevented guns from getting into the hands of criminals you'd have a point. Depending on where you believe the guns in Mexico are coming from (the US vs South America) you might have a point there that if it wasn't easy to get and transfer guns in the US that those men might still be alive and we should be ashamed of the program that killed Americans with the off chance of capturing criminals but that's not what happened.
 
Sean Renaud said:
It shows no such thing. You constantly claim that gun control is a failure because criminals will find away to get guns. These are criminals and they found away to get guns. According to you it should be that simple. It's not because you want there to be something wrong with Holder and Obama.

Now if you're position was we need gun control and look these people would be alive if we had gun control that prevented guns from getting into the hands of criminals you'd have a point. Depending on where you believe the guns in Mexico are coming from (the US vs South America) you might have a point there that if it wasn't easy to get and transfer guns in the US that those men might still be alive and we should be ashamed of the program that killed Americans with the off chance of capturing criminals but that's not what happened.
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These criminals were allowed to buy guns by the ATF. You are one stupid SOB. ;)
 
koalabear said:
These criminals were allowed to buy guns by the ATF. You are one stupid SOB. ;)
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They were allowed to buy guns without the ATF. The ATF attempted to track them but the gun sles were legal with or without them. Silly head.
 
Sean Renaud said:
They were allowed to buy guns without the ATF. The ATF attempted to track them but the gun sles were legal with or without them. Silly head.
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To track guns you have to be where the guns are sent.;) Yes the sales were illegal and approved by the ATF. You are arguing facts that they have already admitted to, MORON.
 
vetteman said:
The Obama/Holder Killer team racks up another one:


Police chief killed with rifle lost in ATF gun-tracking program


By Richard A. Serrano
July 5, 2013, 12:45 p.m.

WASHINGTON—A high-powered rifle lost in the ATF’s Fast and Furious controversy was used to kill a Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco earlier this year, according to internal Department of Justice records, suggesting that weapons from the failed gun-tracking operation have now made it into the hands of violent drug cartels deep inside Mexico.

Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, the police chief in the city of Hostotipaquillo, was shot to death Jan. 29 when gunmen intercepted his patrol car and opened fire. Also killed was one of his bodyguards. His wife and a second bodyguard were wounded.

Local authorities said eight suspects in their 20s and 30s were arrested after police seized them nearby with a cache of weapons — rifles, grenades, handguns, helmets, bulletproof vests, uniforms and special communications equipment. The area is a hot zone for rival drug gangs, with members of three cartels fighting over turf in the region.

A semi-automatic WASR rifle, the firearm that killed the chief, was traced back to the Lone Wolf Trading Company, a gun store in Glendale, Ariz. The notation on the Department of Justice trace records said the WASR was used in a “HOMICIDE – WILLFUL – KILL –PUB OFF –GUN” –ATF code for “Homicide, Willful Killing of a Public Official, Gun.”

Hundreds of firearms were lost in the Fast and Furious operation. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed illegal purchasers to buy the firearms at the Lone Wolf store in the Phoenix suburb and other gun shops in hopes of tracing them to Mexican cartel leaders.

The WASR used in Jalisco was purchased on Feb. 22, 2010, about three months into the Fast and Furious operation, by 26-year-old Jacob A. Montelongo of Phoenix. He later pleaded guilty to conspiracy, making false statements and smuggling goods from the United States and was sentenced to 41 months in prison.

Court records show Montelongo personally obtained at least 109 firearms during Fast and Furious. How the WASR ended up in the state of Jalisco, which is deep in central Mexico and includes the country’s second-largest metropolis, Guadalajara, remained unclear.

After the shooting in Jalisco, local officials said some of the suspects confessed to two other shootouts in the area, including one that left seven people dead, all part of the continuing feud by rival cartel members.

The ATF declined to discuss the matter; officials said they are still compiling an inventory of all the lost firearms for a complete account of the Fast and Furious operation.

Instead of being tracked, almost all the weapons were lost as they flooded across the border into Mexico. In all, some 211 people were killed or wounded by Fast and Furious weapons in Mexico, according to Mexican authorities. And on this side of the border, a Fast and Furious weapon was found at the Arizona scene where U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was slain in 2010.

Terry’s slaying set off a number of investigations in Washington into Fast and Furious. It led to the firing or demotion of many ATF officials, including the agency’s acting director, who stepped down. It ultimately prompted the GOP-controlled House to vote Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over a number of Fast and Furious records sought by the House Oversight Committee.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/...rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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They found the gun. They arrested the guys who had the gun. They found and sentenced the guy who bought and ran the gun.

Sounds like a success to me.
 
koalabear said:
To track guns you have to be where the guns are sent.;) Yes the sales were illegal and approved by the ATF. You are arguing facts that they have already admitted to, MORON.
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They admitted to no such bullshit. The sales were perfectly legal.

vetteman said:
Yeah dopey, they found guns, they found the ones the Obama/Holder Second Amendment Destruction Team, gave them.:rolleyes:

Go back to sleep.
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Yes they did. Guns they legally purchased and would have had anyway. You can't sit here and complain about the results of the 2nd Amendment while screaming about people trying to destroy it. You get to pick a side and show integrity.
 
Headlines Today



More Fast&Furious weapons keep showing up at Mexican crime scenes...

The Obama administration may have more blood on its hands than the Egyptian military.
 
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