Agenda Behind Fast & Furious Gunrunner Program

http://noisyroom.net/blog/ ^ | 6.18.11 | AJ

[Whenifhow]

While clear-thinking Americans can agree that Obama and Holder’s Justice Department made a fatal error in instituting “Operation Fast and Furious,” whereby thousands of weapons were knowingly placed in the hands of straw buyers who illegally crossed our southern border, few are asking why such a dangerous program was created.

There was a definite agenda and we need to go back to 2009, shortly after Obama was sworn in as President, to understand its origin.

At the start of the Obama regime, Obama and Hillary Clinton publicized that 90% of the guns used in crimes committed in Mexico came from the U.S. By April of 2009, FOX News had investigated this assertion and proved it was false. Only 17% – not 90% – of the weapons confiscated in Mexico were U.S. weapons.

Trafficking Guns to Mexico from - FOXNews com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYTJlZbMerk

Mainstream media did not report that Obama and Clinton’s claims were false and, instead, perpetuated the lie and the Obama administration moved forward with Operation Fast and Furious to make the lie a reality. To date, Obama has not been held to account for the false information he and his administration thrust forward for public consumption in 2009 and by the end of this article, you will see how this fits into a larger agenda with a purposeful outcome.

The Obama administration instituted their “bottom up” program – Fast and Furious. Their plan, aptly named, was designed to quickly and deliberately put as many U.S. weapons as possible into the hands of straw buyers who would bring them across the border into Mexico and into the hands of the drug cartels. This would ensure that when those weapons were retrieved and counted by Mexico’s law enforcement units, the numbers would then show a larger percentage of weapons coming from the U.S.

Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has held congressional hearings on Fast and Furious and released redacted emails which described the following (emphasis added), as reported by Jordy Yager at The Hill:

“In one of the emails, released by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), with the subject heading “Director’s questions,” the supervisor of the “Fast and Furious” operation wrote to the assistant special agent in charge of Phoenix field operations with an Internet Protocol address for one of the video monitoring units in a gun store which was authorized to sell guns to the suspects.

The emails seem to indicate that ATF acting director Kenneth Melson had asked for this information. “With this information, acting Director Melson was able to sit at his desk in Washington and – himself – watch a live feed of the straw buyers entering the gun stores to purchase dozens of AK-47 variants,” said a Republican committee statement…

In another email dated March 10, 2010, the assistant special agent in charge of the Phoenix field operations wrote to the supervisor of the “Fast and Furious” operation and said, “Not sure if you know, but Mr. Melson and Mr. Hoover are being briefed weekly on this investigation and the recent success with [redacted] so they are both keenly interested in case updates.”

Prior to release of the emails, ATF’s letters to legislators denied that they were selling these weapons to straw buyers and in fact they “made every effort to prevent weapons from ending up in Mexico.”

However, the truth is documented (emphasis added) by Dave Workman at The Examiner, who has been reporting on this story for over four months since David Codrea (National Gun Rights Examiner) and Mike Vanderboegh (independent blogger) first uncovered the program:

“Operation Fast and Furious was an off-shoot of the larger Project Gunrunner, conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. This controversial operation allowed an estimated 2,000-2,500 guns to “walk” into Mexico as ATF field agents were repeatedly ordered to “stand down” by their supervisors.”

“ATF agents have shared chilling accounts of being ordered to stand down as criminals in Arizona walked away with guns headed for Mexican drug cartels. With the clinical precision of a lab experiment, the Justice Department kept records of weapons they let walk and the crime scenes where they next appeared. To agents’ shock, preventing loss of life was not the primary concern.” — Congressman Darrell Issa

“The Issa/Grassley report, The Department of Justice’s Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents, contains some chilling revelations:

Highlights of the report include:

* The supervisor of Operation Fast and Furious was “jovial, if not giddy, but just delighted about” walked guns showing up at crime scenes in Mexico according to an ATF agent. (p. 37)

* Another ATF agent told the committee about a prediction he made a year ago that “someone was going to die” and that the gunwalking operation would be the subject of a Congressional investigation. (p. 24)

* The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords created a “state of panic” within the group conducting the operation as they initially feared a “walked” gun might have been used. (p. 38)

* One Operation Fast and Furious Agent: “I cannot see anyone who has one iota of concern for human life being okay with this …” (p. 27)

* An ATF agent predicted to committee investigators that more deaths will occur as a result of Operation Fast and Furious. (p.39)

* Multiple agents told the committee that continued assertions by Department of Justice Officials that guns were not knowingly “walked” and that the DOJ tried to stop their transport to Mexico are clearly untruthful. (p. 45-50)”

Quick re-cap – Obama, Clinton and Holder deliberately instituted Operation Fast and Furious for the sole purpose of increasing the number of U.S. weapons that “walked” into Mexico. Remember some of the facts:

* ATF agents were repeatedly told to “stand down” as the guns “walked;”

* The supervisor of this operation was “jovial” and “just delighted” when “walked” guns appeared at crime scenes in Mexico;

* No one had “one iota of concern for human life;” and

* “Acting Director Melson was able to sit at his desk in Washington and – himself – watch a live feed of the straw buyers entering the gun stores to purchase dozens of AK-47 variants.”

Why did Obama, Clinton and Holder do this? It’s obvious to even the most casual observer; they did this to further the propaganda they pushed in early 2009 – that the U.S. has a gun problem because “90%” of the confiscated weapons in Mexico are coming from the U.S. – in order to justify more aggressive restrictions on gun ownership in the U.S.

Keep in mind that when the operation was created in 2009, the Obama administration had not anticipated that it would be exposed. The Democrats had a majority in both the House and Senate and any investigation would have had to have been brought forward by their own party – which Obama, Clinton and Holder knew would not happen. But there were several things they didn’t anticipate:

* Agent Brian Terry’s murder whereby two of the weapons found at the scene were tracked to straw purchasers who bought the weapons under ATF’s supervision via Operation Fast and Furious.

* David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh’s discovery of this operation.

* Democrats’ loss of their majority in the House, with Republicans taking over in January 2011.

* CBS coverage of this operation.

* David Workman’s exceptional and diligent reporting on this operation.

* Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) pursuit of the truth through Congressional Hearings.

Marxists will always tell you that the ends justify the means. Creating the very problem they can claim they’re prepared to solve isn’t a new tactic for Progressives, but this is only part of the story.

Congressman Issa will fail the American people if he stops short and fails to investigate and determine the true purpose of Operation Fast and Furious. To say that it was a dumb program and needs to stop will miss the true agenda behind the creation of the operation in the first place.

While the “bottom up” Operation Fast and Furious continued, so too has Obama’s “top down” operation – the United Nations (UN) Small Arms Treaty.

Did you know that the UN has an Office for Disarmament Affairs? Did you know the Obama administration has been working closely with the UN and firmly supports the UN Small Arms Treaty, which Obama and Clinton fully intend to thrust upon America?

As I reported on April 18, 2011 in the article “THE GLOBALISTS’ TAKEOVER OF AMERICA: Part 3 – WEAKEN MILITARY & CIVILIAN DEFENSE”…

“In addition, the globalists (including Obama and Hillary Clinton) intend to enact the Small Arms Treaty which will restrict gun ownership for American citizens under the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs. Harm our soldiers and disarm our citizens and America is ripe for attack and invasion on our own soil. Couple the Small Arms Treaty with the President’s Executive Order granting international police (INTERPOL) full immunity on American soil, along with the National Civilian Security Force that Obama has been creating, and the clear and present danger to America is obvious.

The danger to America is reinforced by Eric Holder’s DOJ secretly arming Mexico’s drug cartel to put American citizens at greater risk in border-states, and Obama arming radical Islamists in Libya to put American soldiers at greater risk under UN control in Libya.”

If the Obama administration’s agenda isn’t yet clear, despite the facts from emails, testimony, investigations, reports and the links in this article, add the fact that during the Operation Fast and Furious hearings, Mike Lillis at The Hill reported what ensued when ATF Special Agent, Peter Forcelli, stated the following (emphasis added):

“I think perhaps a mandatory minimum one-year sentence might deter an individual from buying a gun,” Forcelli said.

He was responding to a question from Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who said the current penalties are so weak that they discourage state prosecutors from pursuing straw-purchase cases. Forcelli agreed the current penalties do little to intimidate straw purchasers.

That brief exchange prompted Issa to intervene.

“We’re not here to talk about proposed gun legislation,” Issa said…

Maloney defended her line of questioning, saying she was “trying to figure out why … prosecutors often decline these gun cases.”

Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD), the senior Democrat on the oversight panel, also questioned Issa’s authority to mute Forcelli.”

Then Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, reinforced the fact that it’s really about gun control when he said in a statement on Wednesday:

“It’s also critically important that we examine why our gun laws are so weak that they make trafficking so easy in the first place.”

No mention was made by the Democrat representatives or by Paul Helmke that the Obama administration is aiding and abetting the transfer of U.S. weapons into Mexico via a program they designed, implemented and oversaw – complete with “acting Director Melson who was able to sit at his desk in Washington and – himself – watch a live feed of the straw buyers entering the gun stores to purchase dozens of AK-47 variants,” and “ATF field agents were repeatedly ordered to “stand down” by their supervisors.”

The agenda behind Operation Fast and Furious is only one piece of a larger operation to diminish and ultimately extinguish the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans. The 2nd Amendment, as ratified by the States, reads:

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Food for thought:

* “…to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” (George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380)

* “No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” (Thomas Jefferson, Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334, [C.J.Boyd, Ed., 1950])

* “The whole of the Bill (of Rights) is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals…. It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.” (Albert Gallatin of the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789)

* “Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people” (Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788)

[Whenifhow]

post #9
This was a totally manufactured plan to generate a pretext for more gun control and to lay the foundation for the adoption of A United Nations treaty on international gun smuggling as a basis for domestic gun control by elevating the jurisdiction for gun control to the international level as opposed to the national level
^^^^^^^^^^

Well Put!

[Whenifhow]

#19
I want to know how these guns got across our border. Didn’t zero and incompetano say the border is secure?
^^^^^^^
Great Point!

[Razzz42]

I see O’bummer is very very upset with this operation and wants heads to roll over it...Isn’t he?...Doesn’t he?

[USNBandit]

One of the supervisors that is now a "whistle blower" was trying to lay this in the laps of the AUSA's office in Phoenix. That doesn't make since on a lot of different level, principally the fact that the Director of ATF knew about the operation. Letting the guns walk had nothing to do with the AUSA and everything to do with ATF trying to make a big case.

I remember another big case ATF tried to make.

[Miss Behave]

This is spot on.

Hillary was in on this from its inception long ago.

The UN was the chosen (overriding) authority/route to force the US and its citizens into a MAJOR loss of gun rights.

It's the three of them, Hillary, Holder and Obama, with HILLARY having been the advance agent...and then ultimately the UN pressuring link as Sec of State..."under the radar."

The trifecta worked just as Obama said he'd achieve his gun-grab..."UNDER THE RADAR."

[Blood of Tyrants]

You can bet your last nickle that Obama was talking about this and similar covert operations when he said he was working on gun control “under the radar”. This goes all the way up to Obama.

[B4Ranch]

>>If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already! (prefer the Revolution be led with professional military and LEO before . . . .) Let's get it over with.. enough already with leaving it for the children generation after generation.<<

I am not that anxious to see bloodshed on American streets. Let's wait for them to initiate the violence. When we see NYPD storm troopers 'patrolling' the sidewalk outside in full combat gear: Kevlar helmet, flak vest, semi-automatic 9mm sidearm, and Colt model 933 with M900 foregrip and M68 Aimpoint. A few of them will have M203 variety grenade launchers fitting snugly underneath the barrel.

That's not the time to begin our attack. No, wait until they are at home, bare foot in shorts and t-shirts with a cold beer in their hands. The last thing we will want will be expensive "professional military and LEO's", modest two man teams who blend into society will be much more effective. When the men in the suits make the determination to attack us, the civilians, with violence that will be the time for us to strike back.

[B4Ranch]

>>If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already! (prefer the Revolution be led with professional military and LEO before . . . .) Let's get it over with.. enough already with leaving it for the children generation after generation.<<

I am not that anxious to see bloodshed on American streets. Let's wait for them to initiate the violence. When we see NYPD storm troopers 'patrolling' the sidewalk outside in full combat gear: Kevlar helmet, flak vest, semi-automatic 9mm sidearm, and Colt model 933 with M900 foregrip and M68 Aimpoint. A few of them will have M203 variety grenade launchers fitting snugly underneath the barrel.

That's not the time to begin our attack. No, wait until they are at home, bare foot in shorts and t-shirts with a cold beer in their hands.

The last thing we will want will be expensive "professional military and LEO's", modest two man teams who blend into society will be much more effective.

When the men in the suits make the determination to attack us, the civilians, with violence that will be the time for us to strike back.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Just to be clear.. I did not and do not advocate American civilians initiating any violence.

As for the government "men in suits," yes some are very capable of murderous rules of engagement, some simply feel that "it all counts toward 30" and of course there are the subversive ideologues of late.

I trust however that those miscreants are indeed overwhelmingly out-numbered by patriots in the military and in LEO at all levels.

The revolution I imagine is patriotic elected officials finishing off the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky street/campus revolutionary rabble and their ideological issue.

It will be violent. We must support it. It should have happened a generation ago as they swarmed the country advocating a Communist victory. I wanted it to happen back then and I still do.

[B4Ranch]

I am becoming less and less confident in our upper military. When I see soldiers charged with murder who I would have issued a medal or some R&R to it makes me wonder just how close they are to Zero’s line of thinking. Having Zero as my CinC would give me nightmares.

The same goes with our nations LEO’s. I believe SWAT teams are waaaaaaaaaay over used.

Elected officials in suits are the most dangerous item on my list because they are the ones who issue design and operation orders to the uniform clad crowd.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2724518/posts?page=10#10

[LucyT]

obummer is using a technique termed “Pressure from below, Pressure from above”.

This technique was well developed by the Lenin and Stalin to facilitate social change where there was either no support or outright opposition from the people.

Using this technique, a fake demand is created using a manufactured event or fake “grassroots” (”Astroturf” on Democrat speak.)

Powerful political or regulatory agencies the pick up the torch to enforce new restrictive laws in response.

In the case of “ Fast and Furious” the guns were knowingly sold to straw buyers who were shipping them to Mexico to fuel the violence there. These guns would then be found at crime scenes.

obummer’s Administration would then pick up the ball with parallel agenda programs for more gun control using executive power to bypass Congress.

This was a totally manufactured plan to generate a pretext for more gun control and to lay the foundation for the adoption of A United Nations treaty on international gun smuggling as a basis for domestic gun control by elevating the jurisdiction for gun control to the international level as opposed to the national level.

. . . . Article, then # 12.

.

[B4Ranch]

Elected officials with their staff in suits are the most dangerous item on my list because they are the ones who issue design and operation orders to the uniform clad crowd.

Elected officials with their immediate staff in suits are the most dangerous item on my list because they are the ones who design and issue operation orders to the uniform clad crowd.

[little jeremiah]

I can only hope that Issa and other Rs have the guts to go after this until the get to the top, and then do the needful.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/

[Munz]

>I want to know how these guns got across our border. Didn’t zero and incompetano say the border is secure?<

Several months ago, Zero had BP agents stop arresting and detaining illegals. It didn’t get much fanfare and the media certainly didn’t report it.

Now it is clear why

[vanilla swirl]

Are there enough warm bodies and time to prosecute all the treason?

[GlockThe Vote]

Bump

[RandallFlagg]

Bookmarking

[Lee'sGhost]

Question to anybody:

Is “AK-47 variants” silly speak for “semi-automatic” versions of the weapon?