Posted on 07/13/2011 4:21:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
Border: A 2-year-old video shows a high Justice official saying "the president has directed us," including the attorney general, to speed up Project Gunrunner and the offshoot that got a border agent killed.
This tape has no 18-minute gap, and while it does not feature the president himself, the March 24, 2009, video may rival the tape that turned a "third-rate burglary" into a presidential resignation. No one died at Watergate. Agent Brian Terry lost his life in the administration's obsessive pursuit of gun control.
In addition to Agent Terry, Immigration Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata was also killed in a separate incident by a weapon allowed to "walk" into Mexico from the U.S. as part of the administration's third-rate alleged attempt to track and catch gun traffickers.
The video shows Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, who would resign nine months later after less than a year's service, telling reporters at a Department of Justice briefing of major policy initiatives to fight the Mexican drug cartels.
"The president has directed us to take action to fight these cartels," Ogden begins, "and Attorney General Holder and I are taking several new and aggressive steps as part of the administration's comprehensive plan."
At the president's direction, Ogden said, the administration's plan included DOJ's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives "increasing its efforts by adding 37 new employees in three new offices, using $10 million in Recovery Act funds and redeploying 100 personnel to the Southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify its Project Gunrunner," of which Operation Fast and Furious would be a part.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Shades of Iran/Contra Scandal
The operation that has put Melson in the hot seat before Congress is known as Fast and Furious, which was launched in October 2009 as an offshoot of Project Gunrunner — ATF’s larger effort to stem the flow of illegal weapons into Mexico
Between this, the budget and the middle east exploding, i don’t think the media can carry his highness to election day.
I don’t understand this Gunrunner Issue. Did Obamas people just sell guns to gangs? Why? Were they to patrol the border or something? Was it a way to make money? I don’t get it—its so complicated I can’t see the problem. Please make it simple for an old man.
Can’t wait to read the NY Times and Washington Post in-depth exposes on this.
If they report it it will be hidden on page 35 of the C section
I’d say that the Democrat staging of the economic collapse was a bigger scandal but Hollywood’s documentary on it treated guys like Soros and Barney Frank as informative heroes.
Amen, a complete economic meltdown 1 month before the election and no one questions the timing ? Even when we find out that a huge run on the money markets over only a couple of hours triggered it ? This has Soros written all over it and not a peep about it from anyone. Scandal of the century.
There are three possible explanations, none of them very sensible or satisfying:
1) The DOJ claims it was done to lead them to some "big fish" in the cartels. Perhaps so, but in that case they were perversely inept.
2) Follow the money. Maybe somebody (cartels?) wanting weaponry in Mexico was paying off one or more of the major figures in F&F. Maybe the top F&F guys thought that because they were detached from ATF itself and working directly under the US Atty in Arizona, controls would be sloppy (the US Attorney not being familiar with ATF operational SOP) and blurred and they could get away with it. Seems a very high-risk strategy, with a nasty downside.
3) Some higher-ups wanted to exaggerate the # of weapons flowing from the US to Mexico and get Mexico more ticked off to further anti 2nd Amendment initiatives in the US. Also weird. From the lack of DOJ cooperation and vigor, it would seem 1) and 3) are the most likely.
Also, they didn’t bother to track the firearms or make any arrests.
Add to that:
Acts of War, and
Treason>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Definitely Acts of War. The government of Mexico is royally pi$$ed and has protested the operation as an act of war.
DUH yes fingers and mind not working well together today....:(
Trump is a Democrat Plant - sent to divert Republicans and make them look like idiots - to everyone - especailly the unwary people. He is and Never has been a Republican!
Watch how he runs down the Republicans - he is NOT their friend! And Definitely Not on their side!
They “tracked” them by looking at where they turned up at murder scenes in Mexico. Thousands of Mexicans are also dead, not just Agent Brian Terry.
Trump is a Democrat Plant....
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Correct. Why is it our so-called news media never follow up on stories such as Trump’s atatement before Ubama released the supposed COLB that his (Trump’s) people were in Hawaii and had dug up all sorts of info?
The fact we’re reading this on IBD and not NYT means, no, this will not be the president’s Watergate. In my opinion, I could be wrong.
“A 2-year-old video”
PUBLISH THE VIDEO BEFORE IT DISAPPEARS.
Issa: Whistle Blowers Springing Forward re. Operation Fast & Furious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z05OJlleob0
Issa Hannity Interview
http://www.youtube.com/user/RepDarrellIssa#p/u/6/3WfJyRGIUFI
For this to be Watergate, the MEDIA would have to give a s***. The media doesn’t. Big Media NEVER cares about Demonrat corruption. Never.
Clinton’s perjury? Didn’t care. Dukakis’ lack of accomplishment in the ‘88 campaign? Avoided. Hussein’s failure and lack of experience? Silence.
But one Muslim terrorist gets panties put on his head, and the NY Slimes blames Bush for month after month on their front page, while network “news” programs follow suit.
I doubt it, and just remember no one died in Watergat
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