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Editorial: Was Fast And Furious A Gun-Control Plot?
IBD Editorials ^ | June 22, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 06/22/2011 6:09:24 PM PDT by Kaslin

Scandal: Rather than a botched attempt to catch criminals, was the ATF program actually an attempt to advance gun-control efforts by an administration that has blamed Mexican violence on easy access to U.S. weapons?

If "Operation Fast and Furious" was merely a botched attempt at law enforcement, why was a supervisor of the operation, David Voth, "jovial, if not, not giddy but just delighted about" marked guns showing up at crime scenes in Mexico, as career Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent John Dodson told Rep. Darrell Issa's House Oversight Committee?

Perhaps because all was going as planned until it was learned that two of the AK-47s recovered at the scene of the fatal shooting of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in December were bought in ATF's Operation Fast and Furious. That wasn't supposed to happen.

"Allowing loads of weapons that we knew to be destined for criminals — this was the plan," Dodson testified to the panel. "It was so mandated."

ATF agent Olindo James Casa said that "on several occasions I personally requested to interdict or seize firearms, but I was always ordered to stand down and not to seize the firearms."

Yet, as we've noted, gun-tracking operations stopped at the border. That seems odd if the purpose was to catch gun traffickers and their drug-lord bosses. It makes sense, however, if the real purpose was to perpetuate, in the interests of pursuing the administration's gun-control agenda, what Bob Owens of Pajamas Media calls the "90% lie."

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1 posted on 06/22/2011 6:09:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Yes. Next question.


2 posted on 06/22/2011 6:11:27 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Kaslin

Yes. And illegal immigration, to boot.


3 posted on 06/22/2011 6:11:37 PM PDT by 50cal Smokepole (Effective gun control involves effective recoil management)
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To: Kaslin

Of course it was!!!! These people at the BATF and E are EVIL!!!


4 posted on 06/22/2011 6:11:57 PM PDT by Jerrybob
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To: Kaslin

Sounds like we may have a good comeback when the liberals spew about Iran-Contra.

The scenario has now been posed. It will be interesting to see if it has any legs.


5 posted on 06/22/2011 6:12:27 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: Kaslin

Mabye this is what Obama meant when he said that gun control was being promoted “under the radar.”


6 posted on 06/22/2011 6:12:54 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: Kaslin

Calderon is collaborating with the American antigunners, this is all a planned and scripted production.

Gun Trafficking to Mexico: Already Against the Law

http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=257&issue=015

GAO Reports On Arms Trafficking In Mexico

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4991


7 posted on 06/22/2011 6:12:58 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Kaslin
We forget that from 1994 to 2002 President Obama was a director of the Joyce Foundation, a progressive organization dedicated to "social justice" and eroding Second Amendment rights.
8 posted on 06/22/2011 6:13:13 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Kaslin

Yes it was going back to Obama speech wehre he said that the majority of guns in Mexico were from the USA whcih was a lie...he had to make it true so viola gun runner


9 posted on 06/22/2011 6:15:43 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Kaslin

The Stone Wall is cracking.

Next comes ‘le Deluge’

;-)


10 posted on 06/22/2011 6:15:51 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles, Kill the EPA!!!)
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To: Kaslin

yes it is. a huge plot by this WH. I am sure they have many more plots we just do not know about ...yet. Not sure if we will ever recover from this commie anti American bunch.???


11 posted on 06/22/2011 6:15:51 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Kaslin

Yes it was going back to Obama speech where he said that the majority of guns in Mexico were from the USA which was a lie...he had to make it true so viola gun runner


12 posted on 06/22/2011 6:16:08 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Kaslin

To believe otherwise would call for a willing suspension of disbelief!


13 posted on 06/22/2011 6:19:02 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Osama and Obama both have friends that bombed the Pentagon.)
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To: Kaslin

I 12th the “YES!”.


14 posted on 06/22/2011 6:20:43 PM PDT by TaMoDee (GO PACK GO to Super Bowl XLVI)
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To: Husker24

Exactly right.


15 posted on 06/22/2011 6:20:50 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Kaslin
Yes, and, opportunistically, an attack on the state of Arizona.

16 posted on 06/22/2011 6:20:54 PM PDT by I see my hands (Embrace misanthropy)
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To: Kaslin

Yes and I’m certain of it. I’m also certain the Holder was in the loop and I can’t believe that Holder would do this without Obama’s quiet approval.


17 posted on 06/22/2011 6:23:21 PM PDT by Gator113 ("GAME ON." I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: Gator113

Tyrants cannot implement their brutal “solutions” when their enemies are still armed.


18 posted on 06/22/2011 6:28:13 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Osama and Obama both have friends that bombed the Pentagon.)
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To: Kaslin
Rather than a botched attempt to catch criminals, was the ATF program actually an attempt to advance gun-control efforts by an administration that has blamed Mexican violence on easy access to U.S. weapons?

If you know the type of people the dims are then you know the answer to this question is yes. Democrat, the party of miscreants.

19 posted on 06/22/2011 6:40:43 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Much more likely than being a "botched" anything it was a quite successful way to ship highpowered weapons from the US to favored Narcotrafficantes just over the border.

It's "the Chicago Way" to reward friends WHO PAY!

20 posted on 06/22/2011 6:44:54 PM PDT by muawiyah
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