Posted on 10/19/2011 11:37:18 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Intent upon linking the genesis of ”gunwalking” to the Bush Administration, the Obama Regime has unwittingly revealed compelling leads to the birth of Operation Fast and Furious, its possible father, former Agent in Charge of the ATF’s Phoenix Branch, William Newell and the man who may be the Operation’s D.C Godfather, White House National Security Council staffer Kevin O’Reilly.
At the beginning of October, the White House released a number of emails shared between Newell and O’Reilly during the summer of 2010. By this frequently employed method of ”selective release”, the Regime intended to relay the ”fact” that as neither Fast and Furious nor “gunwalking” were mentioned in the correspondence, the topics were obviously not directly discussed by the pair. (1)
It was hoped that this would bolster the White House claim that it knew nothing of the Operation until TV news reports brought it to the attention of the nation at large in 2011.
But in its expectation that linking gun walking to Bush might take Fast and Furious pressure off the Regime, the White House habit of deliberately providing carefully crafted half-truths or misinformation to media lackeys took a careless turn for the worse.
After it was leaked to him by the White House, AP reporter Pete Yost was only too glad to run with the story of 2007 ATF Operation Wide Receiver and its loss of firearms across the Mexican border during the Bush Administration.
But the Regime’s Ministry of Disinformation provided Yost with too much material. For it was also revealed that the man in charge of that purely accidental ”gun walking” by the Bush led ATF was Phoenix Agent in Charge Bill Newell.
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Perhaps this was intentional. They know whom to throw under the bus.
bad link?
How Did Obama Know About "Fast and Furious" Before Holder?
What did Hillary know and when did she know it?
‘Wide Receiver’ CI: ‘It had nothing to do with Bush or even DOJ’
The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.
I want to get to the bottom of this as much as anybody, but when somebody's argument devolves to the use of "Could it have happened that way?" to demonstrate that this is what actually happened, I don't consider that to be much of an argument. More like speculation expressed as fact.
— has sources claiming “Obama’s man in the State Department,” (former) Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg, was the State Department operative who helped Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and the Department of Justice Deputy Attorney General David Ogden formulate the strategy that led to the tactics used in Operation Fast and Furious.Steinberg took office as Deputy Secretary of State on January 28, 2009
A little more than two years later, it was announced that Steinberg's time in the Obama State Department was over. From the New York Times, 30 March 2011:
Mrs. Clinton heaped praise on Mr. Steinberg, describing him as an “indispensable” partner. “On every foreign policy challenge, big and small, he has helped formulate our policy and oversee its execution,” she wrote. Mr. Steinberg, she said, played “Oscar to Jack Lew’s Felix,” referring to Jacob J. Lew, her other deputy, who left earlier this year to become Mr. Obama’s budget director.
Still no Special Prosecutor named. No Independent Council. No Hearing on the Articles of Impeachment.
Zip.
Zilch.
Zero.
Nada.
Ubama, Holder and the rest of the Regime just keep on trashing OUR constitution with complete impunity and NOTHING is being done to slow them down.
Just how much more will we tolerate?
Where did he express that as fact? I don’t see that anywhere in the article.
...Ping to Nachum
In the title.
Oh. OK. (eyes rolling)
H/T gargoyle
The list, ping
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National Security Council staffer Kevin O’Reilly might be the real deal...
Check their bank accounts!
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Accidents WILL happen. ping.
Messed up ping. Speculation?
HA HA HA! That IS hilarious. Indict Holder, Bambi and Mzzzz. Clinton.
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