Operations Fast & Furious

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/gunwalker-smoking-gun-email/


PJM’s Bob Owens has long speculated that the primary reason for Operation Fast and Furious was to perpetuate the lie that 90 percent of illegal firearms in Mexico were from the United States.


That, too, has been given as the whole purpose of the program ... and it ties in to the recent gun controls moves.

Is there any surprise that ObamaMedia is now heralding:
"Obama To Unveil Gun Control Reforms In Near Future"

What starts as a Department of Justice mandate (which was not voted on) is largely expected to mirror ways to use these administrative changes to obtain the results that the gun control advocates are pressuring for.


‘Fast and Furious’ Investigator Issa Responds to Team Obama’s New Gun Regulations


Rep. Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley respond to the Obama Administration’s latest move to regulate guns that they were selling to cartels and foreign gang members in their “Fast and Furious” and gunwalking programs.

There is now evidence that the Obama Administration was looking for anecdotal cases to support their regulations on long gun multiple sales.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLn04WZN6hk&feature=player_embedded

From the video:
Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, discusses the Justice Department’s latest rule on reporting sales of certain semi-automatic weapons to federal authorities, as related to Operation Fast & Furious and changing gun laws.


Senator Charles Grassley released this statement yesterday:

Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, gave the following comment after it was announced by the Justice Department that Federal Firearms Licensees along the Southwest Border would be required to report multiple long gun sales. The Judiciary Committee has primary jurisdiction over policy related to the Justice Department. Grassley is also leading an investigation into the risky strategy employed by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to allow guns to be sold to straw buyers and then watch the guns be transported to third parties without following the guns.

“We’ve learned from our investigation of Fast and Furious that reporting multiple long gun sales would do nothing to stop the flow of firearms to known straw purchasers because many Federal Firearms Dealers are already voluntarily reporting suspicious transactions. In fact, in just the documents we’ve obtained, we are aware of 150 multiple long guns sales associated with the ATF’s Fast and Furious case, and despite the fact that nearly all of these sales were reported in real time by cooperating gun dealers, the ATF watched the guns be transported from known straw purchasers to third parties and then let the guns walk away across the border. This makes it pretty clear that the problem isn’t lack of burdensome reporting requirements. The administration’s continued overreach with regulations continues, and is a distraction from its reckless policy to allow guns to walk into Mexico.
 
Read my last post in the Doom and Gloom thread and you will see I use the term based on sound medical advice...




;) ;)
 
What about the scandal where all of the most powerful people in the world (including presidents and prime ministers) perform bloody satanic rituals?
 
President Obama told a Univision interviewer in late March, "Well, first of all, I did not authorize it. Eric Holder, the attorney general, did not authorize it."
 
When the reporter asked if he had even been informed, Obama replied, "Absolutely not, this is a pretty big government, the United States government. I got a lot of moving parts."

Further, Obama later quipped, "There may be a situation here in which a serious mistake was made. If that`s the case, then we`ll find out and we`ll hold someone accountable."
 
During a late March 2009 visit to Mexico, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued an American super
mea culpa, expressing collective guilt for the Mexican-on-Mexican drug cartel carnage in that nation:
"Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians," Clinton said.

But, as more is learned about Fast and Furious, the reverse of that statement is proving true. Perhaps Clinton should issue a correction: It is the administration she serves—not the Second Amendment freedom of the American people—that has directly contributed to bloodshed south of the border.
 
The truth is that after three years and tens of thousands of man-hours, BATFE`s tracing has not produced a single prosecution of a "trafficking organization in Mexico." How could they? BATFE, according to the Justice Department OIG, had virtually no presence in Mexico, and few of the large pool of agents involved in Project Gunrunner had any Spanish language skills. Furthermore, how could leads to Mexican organizations be followed if the Mexican authorities were totally in the dark?
 
Fast And Furious Scandal: A Watergate For Obama?



A 2-year-old video shows a high Justice official saying "the president has directed us," including the attorney general, to speed up Project Gunrunner and the offshoot that got a border agent killed.

http://hw.libsyn.com/p/f/0/2/f02cb9...344471228b2a&l_sid=17947&l_eid=&l_mid=2652013


The video shows Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, who would resign nine months later after less than a year's service, telling reporters at a Department of Justice briefing of major policy initiatives to fight the Mexican drug cartels.

"The president has directed us to take action" Ogden begins, "Attorney General Holder and I are taking several new and aggressive steps as part of the Obama administration's comprehensive plan."

At the president's direction, Ogden said, the administration's plan included DOJ's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives "increasing its efforts by adding 37 new employees in three new offices, using $10 million in Recovery Act funds and redeploying 100 personnel to the Southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify its Project Gunrunner," of which Operation Fast and Furious would be a part.



As we have noted, Attorney General Eric Holder himself gave a speech to Mexican authorities in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on April 2, 2009, taking credit for Gunrunner as well as Fast and Furious for himself and the Obama administration.

Holder told the audience: "Last week, our administration launched a major new effort to break the backs of the cartels. My department is committing 100 new ATF personnel to the Southwest border in the next 100 days to supplement our ongoing Project Gunrunner."


Agent Brian Terry lost his life in the administration's obsessive pursuit of gun control.

In addition to Agent Terry, Immigration Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata was also killed in a separate incident by a weapon allowed to "walk" into Mexico from the U.S. as part of the administration's third-rate alleged attempt to track and catch gun traffickers.



Shortly after taking office, both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and AG Holder made a point of putting forth what we and others have called "the 90% lie" at the same time the administration was advocating "sensible restrictions" on gun ownership.



The effort included releasing a report claiming that 90% of the weapons used by the Mexican drug cartels were purchased from or originated from the U.S. The actual number was found to be closer to 8%. But it perpetuated the myth that "easy access" to guns cause crime.



Last Thursday, some six months after the Tucson shootings that killed six and wounded 13, including Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the White House announced it was working on "common-sense measures" to improve public safety.

"The process is well under way at the Department of Justice," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced.


Of course, this is the same DOJ that pushed Gunrunner and Fast and Furious.


Common sense has nothing to do with it. It is part of the administration's agenda to push gun control and chip away at our Second Amendment rights.


After funneling some 2,500 guns to criminals and drug lords, the DOJ announced it is requiring gun stores in Arizona, California, Texas and New Mexico to report individual purchases of multiple rifles of greater than .22 caliber by law-abiding American citizens to the ATF because — get this — such guns are "frequently recovered at violent crime scenes near the Southwest border."

Really?

Does that include the administration-supplied weapons that killed Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata?

Where's the public apology for their deaths?

"Brian Terry's loss was preventable," said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chair of the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee investigating this operation. "It was regrettable and preventable."



And now the trail leads directly into the Oval Office.
 
What all this has actually produced in the interim is a whole lot of extra taxpayer funding for BATFE—to the tune of $80 million in tax dollars allocated for emergency "stimulus funding."

In the final analysis, there is indeed something tangible produced by BATFE`s secret operation. Project Gunrunner and its spawn, Fast and Furious, may have stimulated untold violence, death and mayhem for Mexican citizens and for individual federal agents as a result of this Obama administration malfeasance.
 
If you can convince the American people that gun store sales are fueling the murderous cartels in Mexico, and that the "favorite weapon" of your run-of-the-mill Mexican mass murderer is available to law-abiding Americans at those retailers, then you can claim that peaceable Americans should not be able to buy those kinds of firearms. The logic? We sacrifice our freedom to force Mexican criminals to stop murdering people in their country and selling drugs in ours.
 
Yet the administration and the media would have you believe the cartels buy their guns from u.s. gun shops, one background check transaction at a time.

Compare the retail price for a semi-automatic version of the AK-47 in the u.s. to the price on the black market—about $55 per rifle. A Bout competitor commenting on AKs told PBS "Frontline," "It`s a cheap weapon. Go to Lebanon and you can buy it everywhere. Go to Yemen, the world`s biggest stock is in Yemen … maybe 10 to 12 million."

And still the theory is our Second Amendment supplies guns to Mexico?

No, the present administration supplies them.
 
suprisingly few libs want to have this discussion. They'd rather talk about News of the World and Murdoch. Silly libs so easily distracted.
 
suprisingly few libs want to have this discussion. They'd rather talk about News of the World and Murdoch. Silly libs so easily distracted.

The important question is, what was Palin wearing, while the Obama administration was helping the cartels kill off Mexicans.
 
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