Posted on 07/26/2011 4:40:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
Scandal: As hearings reveal the attorney general to be either a charlatan or a boob, word comes of possible FBI complicity in letting guns "walk" into Mexico, ordered by an administration pushing gun control.
If there was any doubt that Project Gunrunner and its offshoot, Operation Fast and Furious, had little to do with stopping gun-trafficking into Mexico and a lot to do with creating an atmosphere for more gun control, it ended with the revelation by Fox News that two convicted felons were allowed to buy and move more than 300 guns into Mexico, something the FBI should have caught but didn't.
Under current federal law, people with felony convictions are not permitted to buy weapons, and those with felony arrests are typically flagged while the FBI conducts a thorough background check through its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
According to court records reviewed by Fox News, two of the 20 defendants indicted in the Fast and Furious investigation — and, yes, there have been indictments — have felony convictions. Jacob Wayne Chambers and Sean Christopher Stewart obtained more than 360 weapons despite criminal records that should have prevented them from buying even one gun.
When asked about the breakdown, Stephen Fischer, a spokesman for the NICS System, said the FBI had no comment. We are not surprised. Since day one, you could here crickets chirp every time the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or the Department of Justice was asked about an operation that got two U.S. agents killed.
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-OR complicit in a brilliant conspiracy of financial destruction and legal malfeasance..
Maybe he's as stupid as a Fox.. effecting Americas morale..
Two agents and uncounted hundreds of Mexicans.
You have it. The goal of the operation was NOT to stop gunrunning into Mexico. The goal of the operation was to increase the number of guns found at crime scenes in Mexico so that the president could claim that more gun control was needed and he did not care how many agents and innocent Mexicans were murdered with those guns.
A special prosecutor has not been appointed because his net would catch dozens of ATF and FBI agents as well as Holder and Obama himself.
Gun control ping
George Bush dit it.
/s/
IMHO
Of course Holder is lying.
Of course the ATF and FBI are lying?
And be assured, of course, the White House will lie on this matter.
But we are trying Roger Clemens for lying to Congress.
Ed Meese was the best AG of our lifetime- perhaps, ever.
Government is never liable.
Government is never held accountable.
In most cases to none, you can’t sue the Government; what’s that tell you? Hence, let’s try Clemens for purjury and not Holder, etc. =.=
Thanks for the ping.
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