Operations Fast & Furious

[4est_4est_Gump]

When a White House dumps documents late on a Friday, it’s not because they aren’t newsworthy. It’s usually because they’re embarrassing, or potentially incriminating. Yesterday we got an almost perfect example of the art when the Obama administration finally released selected documents on the Fast & Furious scandal that prove “extensive” communications between the ATF’s field office and the White House on the deadly project:

Late Friday, the White House turned over new documents in the Congressional investigation into the ATF “Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal.

The documents show extensive communications between then-ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office Bill Newell – who led Fast and Furious – and then-White House National Security Staffer Kevin O’Reilly. Emails indicate the two also spoke on the phone. Such detailed, direct communications between a local ATF manager in Phoenix and a White House national security staffer has raised interest among Congressional investigators looking into Fast and Furious. Newell has said he and O’Reilly are long time friends. …

Among the documents produced: an email in which ATF’s Newell sent the White House’s O’Reilly an “arrow chart reflecting the ultimate destination of firearms we intercepted and/or where the guns ended up.” The chart shows arrows leading from Arizona to destinations all over Mexico.

In response, O’Reilly wrote on Sept. 3, 2010 “The arrow chart is really interesting – and – no surprise – implies at least that different (Drug Trafficking Organizations) in Mexico have very different and geographically distinct networks in the US for acquiring guns. Did last year’s TX effort develop a similar graphic?”

In other words, the White House knew that the guns had gone over the border, and treated it like an academic exercise. O’Reilly apparently never asked in his capacity as a national security adviser, “What the hell were you thinking in allowing the guns to get across the border?” Instead, O’Reilly wondered if a similar operation in Texas produced a cool map, too.

It sounds as if the Obama administration was on board the idea to allow guns to transit the border, and at the very least shows that no one can claim surprise at the outcome. The White House’s lawyer tried to spin it anyway, writing to the Oversight Committee that “none of the communications between ATF and the White House revealed the investigative law enforcement tactics at issue in your inquiry, let alone any decision to allow guns to ‘walk.’” That may be true — at least as far the documents the White House released, but that’s not all of the communications:

However, the chief counsel to President Barack Obama, Kathryn Ruemmler, indicated that the White House was withholding an unspecified number of internal e-mails exchanged among three National Security Staff aides.

“These internal NSS emails are not included in the enclosed documents because the [Executive Office of the President] has significant confidentiality interests in its internal communications,” Ruemmler wrote in a letter to House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The letter, posted here, was obtained Friday by POLITICO.

The latest batch of 102 pages of records partially duplicated information previously sent to Congress and didn’t appear to include any smoking guns showing that White House officials were aware that the operation involved allowing hundreds or thousands of guns to flow essentially unimpeded from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels.

This is rather amusing. Three years ago, a Democratic House sued to get Karl Rove and Harriet Miers to testify over the termination of US Attorneys, who are political appointments that serve at the pleasure of the President, and rejected the notion that executive privilege applied to such executive-branch personnel decisions. Now we have an ATF operation that armed drug cartels and resulted in hundreds of murders from guns supplied by the US government, including the murder of a Border Patrol agent here in the US — and Democrats think that should be covered by executive privilege.

Something stinks at the White House, and the lawyers are circling the wagons to keep Congress from finding it.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/...ows-extensive-communication-with-white-house/

 

[miles]

Check out the coverage this story gets on the NBC, ABC, CNN, and CBS.

CBS is doing a good job investigating the scandal. NBC (MSLSD) hasn't mentioned it in more than ten days. ABC and CNN aren't doing much better.

Investigative broadcast journalism is dead.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Check out the coverage this story gets on the NBC, ABC, CNN, and CBS.

CBS is doing a good job investigating the scandal. NBC (MSLSD) hasn't mentioned it in more than ten days. ABC and CNN aren't doing much better.

Investigative broadcast journalism is dead.

They are beginning to hit hard on the green energy scandals.

Once that dam breaks, then they can't afford to ignore the scandals any more, after all, there are Pulitzers to be won man, and the quickest way to a Pulitzer is to take down hubris...

... nobody wants to be last in ratings.

 

[miles]

double

 

[miles]

They are beginning to hit hard on the green energy scandals.

Once that dam breaks, then they can't afford to ignore the scandals any more, after all, there are Pulitzers to be won man, and the quickest way to a Pulitzer is to take down hubris...

... nobody wants to be last in ratings.

Monkeys will fly out of Throb's butt before a Pulitzer is awarded for an anti-Obama story. Look at these winners. It's a Who's Who of Liberalism.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Monkeys will fly out of Throb's butt before a Pulitzer is awarded for an anti-Obama story. Look at these winners. It's a Who's Who of Liberalism.

Not if he is on the verge of discrediting Liberalism for a generation to come.

At some point, they will turn if only to protect the ideology and only to weed out those under him in the hopes that he can not run with the dignity of being the first black president intact while they offer up a cleaner, more viable variation on a theme such as the Hildabeast.

In short, they will provide him with an excuse as and explanation as to why he had to step down...
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A_J's corollary #9a, “When a Republican does it, an explanation is making an excuse, when a Democrat does it, then an excuse is the rightful explanation.”

 

[koalabear]

September 29, 2011
'Fast and Furious' Guns Found in U.S.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/l...-furious-guns-found-in-us/?playlist_id=164630

 

[koalabear]

With the Obama administration, a political bureaucracy has emerged that is unprecedented in its arrogant disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, and co-equal branches of government. Nowhere is that usurpation of power more glaring than in the Justice Department’s decree establishing a centralized registry of firearm owners in total violation of law.

Using the big lie that American firearm retailers are fueling Mexican drug cartels, the administration has demanded that in four states (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and California) personal information on law-abiding purchasers of two or more semi-automatic rifles (above .22 cal.) in a five-business day period will become part of a centralized database.

This is gun owner registration, pure and simple. Keeping a central registry of information on law-abiding Americans and the firearms we own or acquire is specifically forbidden in federal law and has been voted down in Congress.

It may be only four states and some firearm owners today, but as with all “gun control” it will never end until all Americans suffer under its yoke.

 

[koalabear]

This move by unelected bureaucrats is part of a plan that was hatched at the outset of the Obama administration with the full support of a host of media enablers. Those in the gun-ban crowd are ghouls, always in search of a “crisis” to feed on. And what they seek is the power to extinguish our rights and freedom.

With the extreme violence of the narco-anarchy in Mexico, they seized on that opportunity.

Try this from the Jan. 5, 2011, Los Angeles Times demanding the registration scheme: “Mexico has some of the strictest gun laws in the hemisphere. … for Mexico, however, its weapons management strategy is sabotaged by an accident of location—its residence next door to the gun capital of the world.” That’s us. That’s our freedom.

 

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[koalabear]

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/

 

[koalabear]

I keep hoping somebody will burn their ass out.

It's getting closer, just watch the media start trashing the NRA for mentioning it.

 

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[koalabear]

They won't be getting a virgin when they do, the NRA has been trashed by better than the Times and it's power and numbers are untouched for the most part.

Americas oldest and most trusted civil rights organization, libs hate it.

 

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[koalabear]

Yep, and with a membership bigger than the Red Chinese Army as well.

They hate that too.

Well to be fair the libs have an army too. They just spend their time in line waiting for Government handouts.

 

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[koalabear]

They do have an army:

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g79/jbravo688/Wimps/Canadian-Special-Forces.jpg

 

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[koalabear]

Liberal discovering the existence of an effective U.S. military:

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g79/jbravo688/Wimps/wimp.jpg

I figured that would be a toilet seat.

 

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[koalabear]

New Fast and Furious docs released by White House


WASHINGTON - Late Friday, the White House turned over new documents in the Congressional investigation into the ATF "Fast and Furious" gunwalking scandal.

The documents show extensive communications between then-ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office Bill Newell - who led Fast and Furious - and then-White House National Security Staffer Kevin O'Reilly. Emails indicate the two also spoke on the phone. Such detailed, direct communications between a local ATF manager in Phoenix and a White House national security staffer has raised interest among Congressional investigators looking into Fast and Furious. Newell has said he and O'Reilly are long time friends.

PDF here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/WH_F&F_000001-000102_To_Hill.pdf

More here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20114184-10391695.html

Time to fall on the sword for Oblamer.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Wright bus is about to hit some speed bumps...

 

[koalabear]

The Wright bus is about to hit some speed bumps...

It was full of illegals, I hear it crashed in Alabama.