In a letter to ATF acting Director Kenneth Melson, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley explained why detailed research of ATF data proves that a majority of Mexican drug cartel guns do not come from American gun stores. Further, there’s evidence Fast and Furious was a premeditated criminal operation demanding prosecution.
Some points by Senator Grassley:
ATF trace data proves that the majority of firearms did not come from American gun stores: “of those firearms actually submitted for tracing, a vast majority of those firearms did not come from FFLs …” Instead, American-made firearms were sold to “foreign countries or militaries requiring approval of the State Department and Homeland Security.”
The “70% of cartel guns are American” allegation includes “nearly 2,000 firearms as part of ATF’s Fast and Furious Investigation, where the ATF knowingly authorized firearm sales to straw purchasers before the weapons were trafficked to Mexican DTOs [Drug Trafficking Organizations].”
Said Grassley: “I understand that agents working on tracing weapons in Mexico back to the U.S. routinely instruct GOM [Government of Mexico] authorities to only submit weapons for tracing that have a likelihood of tracing back to the U.S.” Building on the sampling bias I noted earlier, this implies that the American and Mexican governments intentionally conspired to manufacture a crisis.
One last coffin nail by Grassley: “Data indicates that the top source dealer for illegal firearms traced in Mexico for 2009 was “Direccion General De Industria Milita” or the Directorate General of Military Industry in Mexico.”
In other words, the biggest source of cartel guns was the Mexican government itself.
I posted earlier on a another breakdown of the spurious figures touted by Evan Perez.
http://plbirnamwood.blogspot.com/2011/06/sources-of-mexican-cartel-firearms.html
The ‘Fast & Furious’ or ‘Gunwalker’ operation is becoming a scandal that the currrent administration is hoping to simply ignore in the hopes that it will just go away, withering from lack of MSM attention. Unfortunately, they’re usually right.
It’s telling, though, that Grassley is using figures from the State Department in going after BATFE.
But remember, these facts don’t fit the MSM narrative. Therefore they will be ignored. Maybe when Obama is out in 2013 Michelle or Sara or whomever can direct the new Attorney General to go after the people to perpetuated this fraud.
I think the interesting thing here is going to be how the Mexican government reacts to this. There was talk a day or two ago that some in the Mexican government want American officials who participated in the surveillance of gun sales that resulted in the weapons being sent south of the border to be prosecuted in Mexican courts for conspiracy. I seriously doubt that will happen, but what happens if, for instance, they sue here in the States? On the one hand, they might find a sympathetic jury (and remember, no one in the U.S. believes anything much the government says, especially in response to a conspiracy theory, believable or not), but on the other hand, do they really want reporters investigating where all the guns the cartels have really come from? Mexico has had a problem for years with officials siphoning off pay that ought to go to the lower echelons, soldiers in the ranks, etc. If they don’t actually steal it they make sure the individuals in question never get pay raises or whatever. So the peons at the bottom, those who are less ethical anyway, sell their guns or other equipment to the cartels. When the story first broke of the cartel guns all coming from the states, it was clear there was something fishy when we were shown pictures of rocket launchers and heavy machineguns that were supposedly bought at Uncle Bob’s Gun Shop in Tuscon or someplace.
The trick here is going to be for them to play victim without having someone investigate too closely their own involvement in this. It’ll be a nice trick if they pull it off.
The Global Nazi’s hate that law abiding citizens of the United States have Bibles, and firearms. Those like the Bull dike at Homeland Security, Billery at State, and the BLT wannabe at Justice have Reprobate minds, and will lie, and give false witness to further the UN agenda.
With the global government new age agenda, there is no morality. Just whatever feels good. It is now Honorable to push poop in the American military. Selling a few weapons to help destroy gun ownership in America is no big deal to UN lovers.
Treason, as Americans were murdered with the weapons allowed to move south into the arms of evil men.
On June 17, 1971, President Nixon told Congress that “if we cannot destroy the drug menace in America, then it will surely destroy us.” After forty years of trying to destroy “the drug menace in America” we still *haven’t* been able to destroy it and it still *hasn’t* destroyed us. Four decades is long enough to realize that on this important issue, President Nixon was wrong! All actions taken as a result of his invalid and paranoid assumptions (e.g. the federal marijuana prohibition) should be ended immediately!
It makes no sense for taxpayers to fund the federal marijuana prohibition when it *doesn’t* prevent people from using marijuana and it *does* make criminals incredibly wealthy and incite the Mexican drug cartels to murder thousands of people every year.
We need legal adult marijuana sales in supermarkets, gas stations and pharmacies for exactly the same reason that we need legal alcohol and tobacco sales – to keep unscrupulous black-market criminals out of our neighborhoods and away from our children. Marijuana must be made legal to sell to adults everywhere that alcohol and tobacco are sold.
“There’s something extraordinarily perverse when we’re so concerned about preventing addicts from having access to drugs that we destroy the lives of many times more people, either through untreated pain or other drug war damage”.
The war on crime hasn’t eliminated crime either. We should just give up on murder & rape? Maybe the victims just had it coming to them . . .
And laying the war on drugs entirely at Nixon’s feet? It was his idea alone? Please, jumping on the ‘Demonise Nixon’ bandwagon is pathetic.
It is amazing how some people will far reach and almost totally change a topic to demonize the other party. The Other party is a band of cowards about confrontation right now, true, but to reach back to the 70′s and Nixon here, to make a point about Project Gunrunner is so totally out of chronological significance, that it almost gets to the point of being ludicrous. Do you remember the drug circumstances of the 70′s? The Cartels were in Colombia for the most part. The drugs were grown and packed somewhere around Culiacan in Mexico’s mountains and there were a few killings but nothing to write home about for sure. Not in comparison. Drug War Damage?? How about treason and lying to cover up administration involvement in organized crime, directed against the Homeland? Obviously you have never seen an efficient anti-drug, anti-illegal immigrant operation, and you listen entirely too much to the mainstream media. This just “ain’t so”. How can you eliminate international crime when no less than your President is the kingpin of weapons trafficking. Nixon?? Is his ghost STILL AROUND?
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