Posted on 07/10/2011 8:16:21 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
The closed-door testimony of ATF’s acting director, saying that the Justice Department was obstructing a congressional investigation, has prompted an expansion of that ongoing probe into the controversial “Fast and Furious” weapons-smuggling operation.
“We’ll go wherever the investigation takes us,” said Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee and a key inquisitor in probing the operation, during which guns, including AK-47 assault rifles, were “walked” into Mexico.
He said the weekend testimony of Kenneth E. Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, had corroborated information that “more agencies within the Justice Department may have been involved in allowing guns to fall into the hands of known straw purchasers.”
A spokesman for Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Thursday that the Melson testimony “raises new questions” about the scope of the program and certainly “justifies an expansion of the investigation.”
“After talking with the acting ATF director, I think we have a greater insight into what happened and what questions need to be asked to lead to some final answers as to who authorized this program and why,” said spokesman Frederick Hill, whose boss also has been a key player in the ongoing investigation.
Meanwhile Thursday, Mexican police released a videotaped interview of Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar, in which the recently captured No. 3 leader of the Los Zetas drug cartel said “all the weapons” the Zetas use were “bought in the United States” and that “even the American government itself was selling the weapons.”
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Los Zetas are avowed Marxists and are dedicated to the overthrow of the Mexican government......and Obama is backing them.
Oh, it is alleged (at this time) that Los Zetas is assisting Hezbollah setup bases in Mexico.
Some of us suspected that Fast & Furious was about more than just gun control, it also appears to be about funding Marxists across our border.
Should we consider this a conspiracy?
Just wondering, because I haven’t seen the usual suspects jumping in to harangue anyone who thinks a conspiracy possible with our honest government.
Wow. That got my attention. The US govt is supplying weapons to a Marxist group whose trying to overthrow our neighbor’s government?
.... so now we are now a terrorist state.
Exporting and backing Marxists?
Win The Future! What a image for the US! This guy is going to be the worst stain in Americas history. Fruit of the Loom stain.
Fast and Furious = Watergate X Irancontra.
The MSM studiously ignores it.
Consider Obama’s support for the combined forces of islam and socialism in the middle east and add that to what we are discovering in Mexico.
Now consider that Obama is not sweating bullets over the economy and its impact on his re-election.
I wonder how many of the guns these people have from the US are smuggled in civilian rifles and how many are military rifles thats in no way would be sold legaly to the public.
The most notable feature about the Mexican cartels is not that they are armed, but that they are armed with machine guns, rocket launchers, hand grenades, all fully military-grade hardware that they are most certainly not buying at Walmart.
This is worse than Watergate and Irancontra..
No wonder Obama thinks he can declare war any old time he wants--he's been fueling a couple (recall Hondurans evicted the Prez who overstayed his term limits).
“I wonder how many of the guns these people have from the US are smuggled in civilian rifles and how many are military rifles thats in no way would be sold legaly to the public.”
The right of the people to keep and bear civilian-grade arms shall not be infringed.
Fascinating, infuriating and totally believable. Thanks for the background information.
This must put Chalderon between a rock and a hard place. Does he support Obama now, like before? How will he handle this betrayal?
It would not surprise me if Mexico themselves closed the boarder to prevent the US from arming it’s enemies. How did we get to the point where it seems that our own president is our biggest enemy and is undermining everything this country stands for. I am suspicious of every breath he takes. If he is arming the Zetas then I am guessing he expects something in return. Maybe it’s installing a Marxist state in Mexico, but maybe it’s something even more sinister, a civilian police force equal to our military as he has already stated.
Obama on "gunwalking" - "Serious mistakes" may have been made (video)
Deputy Attorney General David Ogden plainly states that "the President and AG Eric Holder ordered" new facets to Operation Gunrunner. (and describes to a T the facets of Operation Fast and Furious) on March 24th, 2009.
Obama Orders Launched Fast and Furious (video)
On June 27, CNSNews.com asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, “Could you tell me what is the exact date that the president learned about the Justice Department ATF operation to allow guns to flow into Mexico?”
White House Mum on When Obama Learned of DOJ's Gun-Running Scheme (video)
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