Gunwalker: It Must Have Been Eric Holder
Now that the debt ceiling debate is over and done, let’s turn our attention back to Operation Fast and Furious and its alleged sister operations. The multi-agency operation (or operations) of the U.S. government allowed thousands of guns to be supplied to Mexican drug cartels, while American federal law enforcement effectively provided the straw purchasers and smugglers with the cover to operate with impunity.
Despite the tens of thousands of words of outrage written about the Obama administration’s botched Operation Fast and Furious, most of the focus has been on the horrific impact of the program as measured by the number of firearms smuggled over the border and the number of lives lost. Some attention has been consequently paid to the potential political and criminal impact of the operation and cover-up within the Department of Justice.
Sadly, the media has focused very little attention on the probable origins of the plot, or why Gunwalker was created as an adjunct of the longer-running and more successful Gunrunner campaign.
Of course, that may not be entirely true. The crack investigative reporters of print, network, and cable news organizations may very well have done the research and followed the various clues about the origins of Gunwalker to their logical conclusion, and then simply decided that the most probable story was one they not dare tell.
The story is this: no competent federal law enforcement officer would ever have concocted an operation as obviously doomed to catastrophic failure as Operation Fast and Furious.
Let us count the reasons why:
- Federal law enforcement agents don’t let guns “walk.” A gun that is allowed to flow into criminal hands is a gun that could end up killing a fellow cop or citizen. As a result, all prior known operations under the long-running and successful Gunrunner program ended when a straw purchaser was allowed to make the purchase, and then arrested on the spot or shortly thereafter. Throughout the process of these stings, the suspects were under constant surveillance whenever they had firearms in their possession, and officers considered it catastrophic failure if surveillance was lost.
- Federal law enforcement agents knew that this operation would not lead to cartel kingpins. The profiling of criminal activity has become a blend of art and high science in recent decades, and when combined with the intelligence provided by informants and a history of thousands of arrests, the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and IRS agents assigned to the task force knew from the beginning that cartel leaders could not be implicated in Fast and Furious, because they simply aren’t involved. Obtaining weapons for cartel gunmen is a problem for the lower to middle ranks of a cartel’s hierarchy, no different than acquiring vehicles or safehouses. The most commonly used cartel weapons are viewed by the organizations as consumable commodities to be bought, used, and discarded. Do CEOs, company presidents, and vice presidents, or even middle managers go out shopping for paper clips and pens?
- Federal law enforcement agents knew from the outset that they could never arrest their targets, who were outside of their jurisdiction. Jurisdictional battles between federal, state, and local agencies are legendary, and sensitivity to jurisdictional issues is something every law enforcement agent learns, often with frustration. Knowing for a fact that the individuals running cartel gun acquisition would be based in Mexico, and staying in Mexico, agents would have realized from the mission planning phase — well before operational implementation — that effecting arrests of the operation’s stated targets was nearly impossible.
- Middle managers in government would never dare to try such a dangerous, high-risk operation without express orders from above. All agencies — public or private — are saddled with bureaucracy, internal politics, and institutional inertia, which forms a powerful and pervasive cultural force that significantly inhibits change. Changes that threaten the equilibrium of agencies are viewed as a threat, and the more radical the proposed change, the more resistance there is to block it from occurring. Resistance to change occurs even when change is thought to be strongly beneficial.From the ground up and at the very beginning, Fast and Furious was a radical and dangerous proposal that would threaten the very existence of the ATF.
Its not just the guns that walked. Now the story emerges that the gov’ment allowed cocaine to walk over our border and into the U.S.
This is most dishonest and criminal administration ever.
yes it is. and holder obama and the whole regime needs to be impeached YESTERDAY and imprisoned for a period of 40 years and one day at hard labor. they should further be stripped of all pay and benefits and fined one million dollars each MINIMUM,
This is not the first time our government has actually assisted in bring drugs into the country. Do you remember the Mercury reporter in San Jose, Ca.exposing our government`s help in bring in crack cocaine into our inner cities. Then in the 90`s when our government was using military cargo jets to bring drugs into our country! Just follow the money!
You can’t have this kind of multi cabinet department co-ordination without some input from the oval office. There may have been a bit of “plausible deniability” coverage going on, POTUS (and particularly this POTUS) would never allow this kind of project without his knowledge and consent.
This a very top down operation.
If it were a GOP White House running this, we’d be at the impeachment stage.
So much for the 4th estate.
Amen to “So much for the 4th estate.”
Journalism still exists as a career field, but the original concept, meaning and calling of the Fourth Estate is dead.
Pop on over to Pajamasmedia.com and have a look at the articles by Bob Owens, Howard Nemerov, Patrick Richardson, Mike McDaniel…….
There are journalists out there doing their due diligence, but sadly they are in the minority.
Look at the reporters, the Journalism grads who are incapable of reporting facts. Smarter than that, track back to their professors. oops, therein lies the rub. Those are the snakes who infiltrated our educational system and government and society doing their destructive poisoning of the curiosity of students and citizens. Everywhere they slither into power in the world, their midas touch sucks the gold from their target and enriches their purposes. STOP them. Look who put the Kenyan in the white house. Search carefully and see why he was groomed in Illinois instead of Hawaii, or other contact site like CT where he was given the phony SS number. Illinois, home of the cowards who buckle for generations to the dem whip, to the billionaire cult members who support each other for their power grabs. The Billionaire cult that preys on poor blacks and keeps them poor on the southside and whips them into line to do their bidding under “Clubs” setup for “disenfranchised” youth by their Elite cult members. Face the facts Americans. Rewording Patrick Henry’s cry, Give Me Freedom Of Speech and No PC handcuffs.
There will indeed be a Special Prosecutor, but not on this Administration’s watch.
Whoever takes that job will need enormous cojones and an extremely thick skin.
He/she will be under constant attack, much of it personal and some of it probably fabricated.
So much for MLK’s dream. This Presidency and its allies have placed themselves above it.
The way I know it came from the top: No one at the top is screaming for the culprit that started this to be revealed. As a matter of fact I haven’t even heard the administration mention anything about this publicly. You would think they would want to squish whoever came up with the idea. Crickets.
You are certainly onto something here. Instead of outing the culprit and distancing the administration is circling the wagons. Nothing to see here, move along.
Yup, like when a woman turns up dead and the husband is disinterested in helping the police find the killer. That is a major red flag.
“The dog did not bark.” – Sherlock Holmes
Nice catch.
I am still waiting for indictments of those involved. Will any be written or will this be brushed under the carpet? Rep Issa, when will you take action?
I hope J. Christian Adams illuminates this case by writing about his own views on this. What are the risks any potential whistle blowers within the DOJ has to consider before sticking one’s neck out, and what are the options open to one who has left the DOJ in disgust? The higher-ups must have thought they had robust ramparts of plausible deniability before launching into something so seditious. What are these ramparts made of?
By definition, subversion is not something that originates from the top, so what should it be called when it happens?
Yes, which makes me wonder why Newell has been so slippery in his testimony. As Bob Owens says: There is no way a politically experienced operative like Phoenix Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Bill Newell would have offered up such a plan merely out of the self interest of furthering his own career.
WHAT is keeping Newell loyal to the privileged higher-ups who have endangered his career and possibly his freedom and his livelihood? I guess it’s one of those things where Newell is complicit, so he’s got to protect his bosses if he’s going to save his own ass.
Bob also says: It now instead seems to be a matter of who will come forward, and how much evidence will they provide to implicate officials at the highest levels of a lawless government. To restate my question above, at what point does it become more advantageous for that “they” to talk than to keep quiet? And there is certainly more than one way for this to hurt those who keep burying it. For Christ’s sakes, doesn’t anyone besides John Dodson have a god-damn conscience?
Evidently not.
We’ve got bodies on the ground, both here and in Mexico, and no one appears to be losing sleep.
Oh, and what about all the guns going to Honduras?
Funny story: I actually had a brush with Gunwalker myself. I was driving west on the I-10 around Christmas 2010 and I went through a border patrol stop where the flag was at half-staff. I asked why the flag was lowered, and they told me an agent had been killed. I now realize it was Brian Terry. I was mad enough then, but if I’d known then what I know now . . .
Which boggles my mind. ATF agents and gun sellers who reluctantly participated in this should be screaming. Maybe they are but I just can’t hear them yet.
By definition, subversion is not something that originates from the top, so what should it be called when it happens?
one word: treason. The penalty for which, upon conviction, is death. Never mind impeachment….. too nice a concept.
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort”.
US Constitution
I suppose you could argue that the cartels are Enemies of the United States. Seems a bit thin to me.
I don’t buy the anti-2nd Amendment theory. Just as no sane LEO could imagine that this operation would ever achieve its supposed objectives, neither could any sane political activist imagine that the likely effect justified the risk of exposure. I think there was bribery, blackmail, extortion, or some combination of the three involved. As they say in Mexico, plata o plomo? Silver or lead?
What this means is that the Drug War is no longer merely destroying the governments of our neighbors. The corruption has now reached across the border and is consuming our own LE agencies.
Professor, hope everyone noted that Bill Richardson, former Gov of NMexico attended Obama’s birthday bash. Richardson was offered a cabinet position by O that BR had to decline because of legal problems. Checkout BR’s history at wikipedia.org. O is going to use contacts through BR to do more cat scratching in his litter box to cover his messy pile of gunwalker crap. Watch Richardson’s name on the White House Visitors’ Log… which probably won’t show, but if it does… watch Richardson’s footprints. It appears he will get himself connected w/Obama through Gunwalker and get help in covering his own litter box legal crap. This is the guy who helped hold the border fence down for the INVADERS to come in. He’s a sneaky bad dude.
Well, we know the AP has finally published something on this slthough revealing nothing more than what PJM has been running with (see Patrick Richardson’s about it on PJM at: http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/08/04/gunwalker-the-msm-finally-notices/
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Now, the question remains, will the LSM newspapers will pick it up and run with it, or spin it in some way to exonerate the Administration while at the same time demanding more gun control, or are they going to bury it. My bet is on bury it.
Jack you won that bet. but then you knew you would. obamas news corp will cover his ass in every way they possibly can,I quit buying news papers long ago and I never listen to nor watch the alphabet stations for news. I dont need their propaganda,
To blame Phoenix officer William Newell for coming up with this scheme would require the directors of Dallas, Houston and Tampa field offices to simultaniousley have hatched the same hairbrained idea. NOPE! They were all just following orders from the TOP!
Please keep this up Mr. Owens … thank you!!!!
Of course it’s coming from the POTUS’s handlers … the truth is prevailing and justice is coming!!
This needs to be investigated to the “N”th degree. Unlike the missing political stimulus funds. No one knows where much of the 787,000,000,000 greenbacks went to. What is all this about? Sloppiness, Tumult, Usurpting, Politicising, Insider, Divisive, Leftist, Yammer. The evidece is there, it just needs to be spelled out.
Who will be this year’s “John Dean” to come forward with the evidence to bring this all down? It could happen in the next few months, especially if the House of Representatives keeps holding hearings about this. This will be Obama’s Watergate and, given Obama’s desire to get rid of dead weight, don’t be surprised if Holder gets thrown under the bus for this. And soon.
This may very well be the demise of the Obama administration. A real cherry-on-top would be if this turns out to be a fatal blow to the anti-gun movement as well.
Some Mexicans are calling for gun rights there for the purposes of self defense. They arent likely to be successful anytime soon, but we can keep our fingers crossed. How rich is that irony?
Some Mexicans are calling for gun rights there for the purposes of self defense. They arent likely to be successful anytime soon, but we can keep our fingers crossed. How rich is that irony?
NOW you are on to the real root of this whole mess. Had the Mexican government NOT disarmed her citizens, the cartels never would have been able to grasp such complete control over her citizens. One more case of disarm the population and they become slaves. The way things have been from the beginning, a gang of petty narcotraficantes wants control over a corssroads village, they come in and take over. End of story. Why? NO ONE in those villages can lawfully be armed. Its as easy as taking over an American elementary school. Imagine were the locals armed and skilled…. had their own locally organised and controlled militia, ready to defend their homes and businesses and families.
MY bet is, next one crazy enough to run for the office of El Presidente and win will have as part of his platform the legalisation of defensive weapons in the hands of the common people. Mexico as a nation are more than weary of being ducks on a millpond…..
Watergate had its John Dean testifying before a congressional hearing, televised, of course. Do you really believe that the leftist media would televise an Obama regime “John Dean” or even that any member of the regime would come forward? These leftists and their propagandistic media are ideologues of the first water. They do not rat each other out and are steadfast in their hypocritical support of Obama. The worst that will happen is that the racist Holder will be sacrificed; Obama will remain unscathed (until January 2013).
Destroying property or murdering people to create an atmosphere of fear to advance a political agenda is TERRORISM.
In this case the plotters did not actually pull any triggers or set off any bombs themselves, and they did not recruit or employ others for that specific purpose. What they did was empower others, who had different motives, but similar ends, to be their agents and do the work for them. Those agents may have advanced the plotter’s cause unknowingly, but the plotters knew very well they would and empowered them to do so in a very calculated and malicious way.
In other words, Obama and Holder flooded the criminal underworld with guns, knowing a river of blood would be let loose, so that a frightened populace would support their anti-gun measures.
“….it was not a law enforcement operation, but a political operation designed to advance an anti-gun political agenda that Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama have been pursuing since the beginning of this presidency.”
“The multi-agency operation (or operations) of the U.S. government allowed thousands of guns to be supplied to Mexican drug cartels, while American federal law enforcement effectively provided the straw purchasers and smugglers with the cover to operate with impunity.”
Assuming these statements are true, and it is hard to see how they arent, we should call this what it is. Terrorism, perpetrated on the American and Mexican peoples by Barak Obama and Eric Holder and others.
VPL at #4 makes a very good observation. Guilt silences them, the guilt of having hatched and executed the most devious and heinous criminal plot against the american people in memory with murderous results. Perhaps ever.
Ugh. I never use all caps….I know better. Sorry guys.
I agree with your first sentence about the priorities of news. Didn’t anyone wonder why the President may have dragged the Debt debate out until everyone left Washington? Besides the debt politics, could there be other things he wanted to hide or at least delay as long as possible, maybe until the next big news story takes over? NOW, is the time to get this story out again; maybe the MSM will have to pick it up from lack of news? What has gone on in Gunrunner is illegal and all need to be brought to justice. This must be brought to the general public.
PJ, Sippsey and the Examiner Gunners have done a good job keeping the heat on Gunrunner and probing all the other malfeasance of this Administration. Push the Cloward Piven, disrupt them at every opportunity. The blogger 4th Estate is inside the OODA loop….BRAVO.
Mr. Owens, there’s one thing I don’t understand. I’m thick, but why would Bill Newell and other managers and supervisors implement this program? Maybe this is something basic about how organizations and bureaucracies work, but I don’t get why Newell et. al. didn’t foresee what John Dodson foresaw and object to this scheme (if not hit the frakking roof) when it was first presented to them.
I have looked over your four points, and each one of them should have stopped this operation cold at middle management.
Unless you have worked in a government bureaucracy, it is hard to imagine just how strong the incentives are to ‘get along and go along’. Middle management rarely stops anything. There are no rewards for innovation or doing a good job, and there are no punishments for doing a bad one. Going against superiors is the one certain way to bring the wrath of the system down on you. It is a career ender.
These guys may have objected at some point, or they may have seen the strategy from the start and gone along, we may never know. They are in on the cover-up for now.
Suthenboy is so very right, arhooley. I’ve been working in state government for the last 10 years 11 months and 3 days (start date 9/1/00). In that time I’ve been passed over for promotion more than 10 times and literally everyone I’ve trained or had a hand in training has been promoted ahead. The reasons? Apparently I’m: 1) not a good trainer, 2) tell management what they ‘want to hear’ in interviews (1 & 2 are what I’ve been told in ‘you don’t get it speeches’), and 3) (this is my perception) have regularly attempted to inform management of deficiencies in processes, training, etc both formally and informally.
Every time I have brought up items that I see as ‘lacking’ I have ended up in a meeting with the 3 supervisors and the administrator – all hostile meetings – and twice I’ve been ‘written up’ for “insubordination”. Anymore, I keep my mouth shut and do my job (all while trying to find a new one…that’s been going on for 4 years now
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I know several people employed or previously employed with the feds… those that are still there keep their heads down at all times…those that aren’t are a mixture of those who failed to duck fast enough or left in disgust. One, and only one, actually made ‘positive change’ before the new management forced her out, due to their incompetence and her own scruples.
[Yes, I know, I'm one of the leaches on society: public-sector employee :p. If I could afford to just quit, I would...but there is one serious extenuating circumstance. You see, I have the absolute joy (/s) of having a chronic/incureable disease ... and there is no way I could afford the care I currently enjoy with other employment.]
Thanks for the answers.
In that case, I guess the tipping point can only be reached when these mid-levelists find it more advantageous to sing than to clam up. The best strategy would be for a special prosecutor to start the indictments with them.
I think the explosion of this story will include a few well-written books that excoriate the culture you describe and provoke some serious national soul-searching that will in turn result in some form of action. If Romney is president, we’ll get an unwieldy, impenetrable, and toothless piece of legislation — a sort of SOX for the feds that’s mostly ignored. If Palin is president, it will be something else.
yes arhooley if Sarah is president it WILL be somethig else. you can bet your bottom dollar there will be some heads rolling around washington,
These were Obama’s shovel-ready rifles, all right. Will we ever know if the toll of Fast and Furious and similar lunatic programs grow to a larger toll than 9/11.
This toll is growing as we ask for the truth and the most transparent administration ever–the Obama-Holder jokers–cover up.
Only a moronic prog high level staffer/operative would come up with something this blatantly flawed. They believed and still believe that the MSM is so committed to this administration they would just go along with the scam. Ref. the 90% of guns found in Mexico came from the US gun stores, headlines the dolts of the major networks ran with. Even after they are exposed the are attempting to pass stricter legislation to control multiple long gun purchases. The irony being these fools allowed multiple gun purchases by people who would never, never be allowed to walk out of a gun shop with this many guns. This makes Watergate look like a penny candy thief.
Well…you know leadership. It has a lot to do with the people a leader chooses to have working with him (or her). The people President Obama chose are probably a lot like him. In any event, he does not appear to listen to others. Something as wild as this scandal appears to really be, particularly with a president like this man, would not have him in the loop or in the middle.
What type of pressure/blackmail will be or is currently in use against high level whistle blowers, or is there strict liked-mindedness and loyalty? There is no media pressure, so there is no real pressure on confidants. Perhaps if the media were to pay attention to this situation, some jealously, office politics or a spurned White House staffer(s) could be turned.
Unfortunately, there appears to be little less than a news blackout on this issue. It goes too deeply against Left-wing ideals like gun control, and goes too deeply into the Administration. It looks like Holder may have to resign, and not much more happens. BUT, if, God-forbid, the President is re-elected and there are solid Tea Party-strong Republican majorities in both houses in Congress, it could stop his agenda cold and bring him down.
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Mistake – I should not have put the word “not” in this sentence:
In any event, he does not appear to listen to others. Something as wild as this scandal appears to really be, particularly with a president like this man, would not have him in the loop or in the middle.
I meant the opposite!
Were any members of Congress (Especially the democratic leadership) briefed on this “undercover effort at gun control”?
What did Pelosi and Reid know, and when did they know it? I’d love to see them being grilled on the ‘special prosecutor 4-burner’.
AMEN to that,
“The cover up is worse than the crime”. Famous words from the past, always works with Republicans. Anyway, Obama is now in this up to big ears. Evidence will continue to surface and our scummy media can restrict the news only so long. Election day is not that far away, a few well placed ads, a trickle of stories on TV, some mention in the shamed media, perhaps coverage in The Network That Doesn’t Do News, Fox, and who knows, a year from now Obama may be cleaning toilets for a living.
There has to be something he can do right.
johnt I would much wrather he were making gravel from HUGE boulders 12 hours a day for the next 40 years and one day,
Dang! I Missed Obama’s Birthday Bash!
I’m annoyed with myself beyond words!
Not only did I miss the event of the week, if not the month, but I had received a personal, not engraved and emailed but still special, invite from Mrs. Barack Hussein Obama–Michelle Robinson LaVaughn Obama–to say a few words on a 50th birthday card congratulations to her hubby.
And I forgot!
I wasn’t invited to the party itself but from all reports it was the shindig of the summer season, a bacchanal rivaling Emperor Nero without the sex part of a true bacchanalia but befitting the honored Obama and the distinguished guests. Everyone who is anyone in Hollywood and the worlds of hip hop, music, television and politics was there and they were even dancing barefoot in the Rose Garden!
No one reported seeing any common folk there nor observing America’s new emperor fiddling although the fires from America burning could be seen from a distance. However, back to my invite.
Adding to the seductive qualities of the invitation, Michelle assured respondents that their comments would be delivered to the president–and who could resist that attraction, aside from those who would send him carefully chosen observations that would result in a visit from the Secret Service?
As Mrs. O. so graciously expressed it on her invitation, she and “the girls,” presumably those same girls, Sasha and Malia Obama, whom Barry had repeatedly pledged never to exploit for political purposes, wanted me and, okay, a few others, ”to wish him a happy birthday by signing his card, and sharing why you’re on this journey with us.”
The only “journey” I know Barry and his clan are leading us on is to Hell so I was surprised at Michelle’s offer to allow me to send him my greetings.
The FLOTUS also made specific mention of her hub’s stresses and aging under the pressure of taking the nation down the road to perdition, although she didn’t phrase it exactly that way. What she did say was that the aging process was “more proof that he’s earning every last one of those gray hairs.”
Working 25 hours a day, 8 days a week can do that to a guy and it’s hard to see how Obama does it, in between his golf outings and vacations, but she wouldn’t lie even if she made no reference to the age-enhancing properties of unbleached flour. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5185)
Thanks for this article. One aspect I’ve been wondering is that of international relations with Mexico. Will Pres Calderon go public with what has to be utter outrage at the U.S.? Is this any different from Iran’s aiding the rebels in Iraq and Afghanistan who are murdering civilians?
President Calderon will be a lame duck soon enough. The Mexican public probably wants the violence just to go away. Whomever is elected in the next Mexican election will probably try to tone down the drug war.
Mexico’s media is far more controlled than ours is, but perhaps someone could squeeze this issue for political points. (It-is-all-the-USA’s-fault-style demagoguery.) If the scandal gets media traction in the U.S., or if there is an impeachment in our country, all bets are off.
Thank you for directing blame where it should go — the source at the very top. I had cousins who were ATF agents (thankfully long retired before this debacle), and they would never have countenanced this, not even at the cost of their jobs.
And now we here talk about the government being in the cocaine business and making an alliance with one of the cartels it armed.
Accusing two black men of breaking the law ?
You racist pigs ! Are those white people making the claim…RACISTs !!!
Exact opposite of Wisconsin Fair; blacks accosting whites… oh it’s because of the historic oppression of minorities. Doesn’t even qualify for the MSM
If it were whites accosting blacks it would be world news
Same with Holder or Obama. Throw a shoe at Bush…Clap clap by the MSM
Accuse a black President… Racists Racists !!!
Exactally the same as not prosecuting the Black panthers; Minorities have been through enough.
Conceal and Carry
could I get a great big AMEN on that???
So sick of this crooked, lying administration. Hope Congressional leaders are aware of this article (and avid readers of Pajamas Media!) Darrell Issa, please keep showing a backbone and continue plowing forward with hearings to get to bottom of this disgusting, horrific, underhanded, who-cares-who-gets-killed-in-fight-for-gun-control mess. Bring criminal charges against Holder. And if its warranted, impeach the damn president.
There is no way in hell that this didn’t come from the top. Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, Hillary Clinton, and possibly even Barack Obama himself knew about this and authorized it from the very beginning.
Eric Holder has already perjured himself in front of the Congress and his resignation will not be enough, I want to see him prosecuted as the criminal he is.
The Obama regime is a rogue, criminal organization and should be treated as such!
I hate to beat what some see as a dead horse, but just a few reasonable questions of our current POTUS:
Connecticut SSN?
Selective Service Registration anomalies?
Authorship of “Dreams From My Father”?
Possible Indonesian passport usage on 1981 trip to Pakistan?
Adult claims of Indonesian citizenship on student aid applications?
that horse ain dead Anonymous, keep flogging the sonofabitch till he moves,
Nice article Bob, but some pieces are missing.
For reference this subject, I regularly use:
1. ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS ANNOUNCE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER SECURITY POLICY: A
COMPREHENSIVE RESPONSE & COMMITMENT – 3/24/2009
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Administration-Officials-Announce-US-Mexico-Border-Security-Policy-A-Comprehensive-Response-and-Commitment/
2. Press Briefing by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Deputy
Secretary of State Jim Steinberg and Deputy Attorney General David Ogden on
U.S.-Mexico Border Security Policy – 3/24/2009
http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1237930080517.shtm
Projects related to Fast & Furious:
1. Operation Armas Cruzadas
2. Operation Accelerator
3. Project Reckoning
4. Project Gunrunner
Obama, Holder, Napolitano, Clinton all involved to some degree in all four above listed projects.
These projects had a total potential spending of: $3 Billion 740 Million
$10 million in Recovery Act
$30 million in stimulus
$700 million is the existing appropriations for the Merida Initiative
Additionally, the state and local law enforcement in those areas can apply for
COPS and Byrne Justice Assistance Grants, a total of $3 billion of which were
provided in the stimulus package.
Above project and funding data acquired from the DHS transcript.
So there were many WRONG projects, and all WRONGFULLY funded!
Bob, only part of the reasoning was to enhance anti-gun opinion in our nation. The larger reason, as I see it, was to arm Hezbollah in Mexico. And making it easier for them to cross our border, armed or unarmed, by filing lawsuits against states trying to secure their borders.
We have Obama admin who belong in prison over all this. And that’s just over the transcripts I’ve pointed to above.
This is far beyond Obama’s bowing and hand-kissing of Arab leaders.
This was part of the Stimulus package. The Dems put this in. It wasn’t just the executive branch, folks. There will be no impeachment.
That’s only the funding part of it, and detailed analysis of stimulus will be required to validate your comment.
The ORDER for these variety of failed projects (too bad my other comment remains in moderation) comes from Obama, with Holder, Napolitano, and Clinton complicity, from back at 24 Mar 3009.
Warning info to be attached to all weapons involved with Gun Runner
“IF FOUND BY ILLEGALS OR NARCOTICS DEALERS, POINT AT HEAD & PULL TRIGGER ONCE FOR SPANISH, IF FOUND BY ANY LEGAL RESIDENT OF THE USA, POINT AT NARCOTICS DEALERS & PULL TRIGGER TWICE FOR ENGLISH”
I’ve done a number of blogs about this at my site. The key to this is point #4. I spent a generation in police work, worked with the feds, knew other detective who were assigned to JTFs. The ONE FACT that cannot be avoided is they cannot nor will not do anything without tons of supervisors signing off.
Here are two. Point is, they knew, they all knew. Somebody should be going to jail for felonies over this. However, our political system is so corrupt there is no guarantee this will happen as both sides know sooner or later power shifts and they don’t want to face retribution.
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2011/06/21/heartbreaking-and-maddening-to-see-the-batfs-gunwalking-nightmare/
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2011/08/06/swinging-back-through-the-atfs-criminal-operation-fast-and-the-furious-update/
The best use of anti-Obama election funds would be to send the Radio Trucks with loud speakers into the minority neighborhoods and announce that Obama and Holder used stimulus money supposedly intended to pay for minority jobs to use known criminals to purchase and ship tens of millions of dollars of guns to the Mexican drug cartel who were targeting American ghettos for drug and addiction slavery to deprive all the ghettos of their limited cash. And Americans got killed. And the reason? After taking his oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, Obama wanted to attack and change the Bill of Rights which his ideology does not like, particularly the Second Amendment (but freedom of religion too, q.v. his “clinging to their guns and religion” comment).
Forget the hard red and hard blue states. Just target the minority neighborhoods in the swing states (e.g. Ohio and Fla.) and post the activity on Youtube and let it go viral. Do it fast and furiously and this would give you the most “bang for the buck” pardon the horrible puns. We could win with this. And good riddance to a truly evil man.
I disagree with the last sentence in the article. The only thing that now remains is how many millions of stimulus money will be paid to agents in order to have them retire and disappear as opposed to revealing what really happened. What would you do if given the choice of talking and ruining your career or keeping your mouth shut and leaving with a million bucks in your pocket?
It’s tough to say which blunder will get the obama administration first. The release of the fraudulent birth certificate or the fast and furious debacle, or perhaps both. In any event his election and commie agenda has set the democrat party back 50 years before the american people will trust these anti americans to run this country again.
Everybody knows that Holder and Obama knew about the guns and drugs, so what. What are you going to do about it? We can not even get a real birth certificate from Obama and with AJ Holder carrying water for Obama, nothing will be done.
I don’t see much being made of this in the LSM (didn’t expect to) or by anybody in the Republican party. Where are our candidates? They should be in the news making a lot of noise. I think some people are far too complacent thinking that Obama doesn’t stand a chance. The stakes are high. If he does win again, he’ll pull the plug, start pushing every thing that he had to put on hold and that will be the end of our country as we know it — it won’t be fixable. So far, the Republicans are doing a horrible job, if they want to win. They are running things just like last time. It’s real scary and I used to be a Democrat! Right now, I’d vote for just about anybody, but please give me someone with balls and do it fast!
We need a good woman to straighten things out – Bachmann or Palin will do!
Sounds good to me. I’d happily vote for either.
We need a good woman to straighten things out – Bachmann or Palin should do.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s going to be the candidate. He’s not afraid to throw the punches where they hurt.
He’s got an excellent economic record in Texas, and knows how to get business moving so the jobs get created.
Who benefitted from the free flow of Fed sanctioned firearms to mex and who benefitted from the free flow of illegal drugs into the US, if both answers are the sinaloa drug cartel then I do believe a link from them to the US administaration could and rightly should be presumed and investigated by … US law enforcement who are implicated isn’t a good idea … US congressional over sight committee probably bad idea for polititions to investigate a politically motivated ploy … the media probably ineffective since OB can do no wrong in their eyes … So whom shall we trust to bring the criminals to justice ??
My gut tells me it came direct from the White House. Eric is just his hand puppet.
Barry fancies himself as an original thinker and you’re all right; he SHOULD be impeached.
Lots of luck getting to Holder. He’s got 2 get out of jail free cards. He’s a Democrat and he’s black. The MSM could not care less.
It is a Bad Thing in a country when the supposedly objective press takes a side and supreses news. But that’s where we are.
When Obama told Sarah Brady that his administration was working on gun control under the radar, that’s the smoking gun that he knew and approved of Gunwalker/Fast&Furious. All federal officials involved in that criminal enterprise need to spend many years making little rocks out of big ones at a federal institution. And while they are so incarcerated they need a little re-education to include heavy studies of the US Constitution, and the Federalist Papers. Nobama 2012 !!!
There is no doubt in my mind that this operation was a cooperative effort by Obama’s closest advisers and cabinet to gather facts that would support the gun control legislation his administration so desires. No middle manager in his right mind would set up an operation of this size and scope when all of the training, mission statements and policies of the organization do not allow these gun purchasers to walk. The fact that the operation would send these guns across international borders is more proof that homeland security and Obama were in full knowledge of it and would have had to approve it.
We need to pursue this scandal to its final end, right where it began: at the White House cabinet meetings.
For a 9-part series on Fast and Furious see: http://sleeplessandtired.com/?p=3099
Lets all E-Mail the media and ask them why they are not covering this. We all know why but we should hound them until they do start investigating.
Link to ALL the medias E-Mail addresses::: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1228326/posts
Actually, it is very likely that the idea for this operation came from the field and an ambitious Special Agent in Charge. That is was approved is also not unlikely given the attitude of ATFE management. It is also likely that ATFE management needed approval, either explicit or implicit, from DOJ senior management. Most likely the Acting ATFE Director brought the operation idea to Holder’s advisers and obtained approval. In fact the operation is typical ATFE given their political agenda.
If all gets said and done, and that’s a big if, I believe it will all go back to State and Hillary Clinton. Am I the only one that thinks that all this complaining about “illegal” firearms flowing into Mexico from the US started during the Clinton Administration?
Three possible motives could be plausible:
1) The 2nd Amendment smear
2) They needed the money
3) Islam benefits.
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