DOJ hanky panky continues around Fast and Furious. Holder pushed to fire acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson just as Melson met privately with Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Chuck Grassley.
Regarding Melson’s accusations, Congressman Issa said: “If his account is accurate, then ATF leadership appears to have been effectively muzzled while the DOJ sent over false denials and buried its head in the sand.”
It also appears that the FBI and DEA were involved with Fast and Furious. From Fox:
According to sources, unbeknown to the ATF, the target of their operation was a FBI confidential informant, a fact that only became known to them in April of this year after an 18-month investigation that cost millions of dollars of tax dollars.
“They were going after someone they could never have,” a source in Washington told Fox News. “The Mr. Big they wanted was using government money to buy guns that went to the cartels. The FBI knew it and didn’t tell them.”
The confidential informant is a former high-level drug dealer who had been deported by the DEA. The FBI, however, recruited him as a counter-terrorism informant…
In a sick way, it makes sense to recruit experienced criminals to run a criminal operation like Fast and Furious. They’re the experts, after all.
Moreover, “U.S. taxpayer money [was] used to buy guns that were later sent to Mexico.” Let’s not forget taxpayer money spent on ATF, FBI, and DEA office buildings, computers, salaries, transportation, and communication systems, plus expenses surrounding the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
Indictments at 11.
If they will go through all of this just to trick the American public into thinking there is a problem where there isn’t and the solution is banning guns. It makes me wonder. I’m not much of a birther but how hard would it be to abuse their power to print out a birth certificate? It would be like a milk run to these guys knowing what they are willing to do as a matter of normal business. Its all very Marxists in nature “National Determination” and “Amalgamation of capital” come to mind.
And what those fancy phrases mean is just that the state should be above else as long as its communist.
I figure they have two plans. One, they get their gun control which is what this is all about. Two, they get caught, Holder takes the fall for Barry, Barry pardons Holder. Either way, since they have no clue where the rest of these weapons are, I pray none of our elected officials are assassinated with any of these weapons or worse, any of our law enforcement officials and civilians. I wonder if any of that money spent on the weapons came from stimulus money?
This is taking on a life of its own, & may overcome the inertia of the MSM. I posted on the news about the letter from Grassley & Issa this morning, & even managed to draw a correlation (mind-set?) with Jamie Gorelick of the 9/11 ‘wall of separation’ stifled scandal.
http://plbirnamwood.blogspot.com/2011/07/fast-and-furious-investigation-speeds.html