Posted on 03/08/2011 10:11:31 AM PST by neverdem
White House press secretary Jay Carney did not shed any light Monday on the allegations uncovered by CBS News that ATF intentionally let thousands of assault rifles and other weapons fall into the hands of Mexico's drug cartels. Insiders call the controversial practice letting guns "walk."
In the wake of our CBS News investigation, Mexico has asked the U.S. for more information. Two AK-47 type variant assault rifles that ATF allegedly let "walk" were found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last December. Here's the excerpt from today's White House briefing:
CBS News chief White House correspondent Chip Reid: "Do you have any comment on the story and on these developments today?"
Carney: "I don't. Obviously, as the president pointed out when he spoke here with President Calderon, we take the issue of the flow of guns south very seriously, as we do the issue of the flow of drugs north. And -- but beyond that, I don't have any comment."
Reid: "Is he aware of this specific allegation..."
Carney: "I don't know."
Reid: "... that hundreds of guns went into Mexico with the knowledge of ATF?"
Carney: "I don't know."
Watch video of Reid's questioning at the White House press briefing above.
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I wouldn’t say anything either.
You know, I don’t these people could close an umbrella.
CBS: “Well, thats good enough for us.”
Janet Napolitano would call this 'downsizing'.
Why should the drug cartel be forced to buy guns when the US government is busy giving everything else away.
Remember all the stories after Bozo got “elected” about ‘US guns flowing into Mexico’? Remember that ‘narrative’ in the MSM? The whole thing stinks and I think the WH was behind this to enact gun control.
In a nutshell, the obozo regime has supplied the drug cartels with thousands of weapons that were then used to kill american law enforcment officers. Holder you stupid sob.
Thanks!
From a purely “should this guy be the CEO of our government and commander of our military defense?” perspective, a picture is worth a thousand words.
The list, ping
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If you are an accessory to murder, it is a good idea not to incriminate yourself.
Every time I look at the pic, I see two thoughts on MO’s face: Don’t you dare drop that thing on me, and you dumb SOB.
Will Barry’s minions in the media ever report on the Bammy version of Iran/Contra? (gasp)
They can’t say anything other than “Yup, we duhn it”, or lie like they always do. So I guess they figure why bother.
Maybe I’m giving them too much credit.
GUILTY!
“What did the president know and when did he know it?”
—HOWARD BAKER, 1973
Who woke up the MSM?
We have known about this here in FR for a month now.
For a couple of years, the gun control lunatics have been claiming, and falsely, that all the violence in Mexico is the direct result of American guns heading south.
This smacks of an effort to backfill the story in order to provide evidence for the big lie.
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