A White House 'Gunrunner'?

IBD ^ | 9/7/2011 | Editor

[Nachum]

The Law: Operation Gunwalker, the rogue ATF operation to arm Mexico's cartels, extends now to three White House officials. A bell goes off with the one named Dan Restrepo.

Late last Friday, CBS News and the Los Angeles Times almost buried the news that Restrepo, the National Security Council's top man for Latin America, and two other officials, were in on ATF memos from the Gunwalker operation called "Fast and Furious."

That blows apart White House claims that it had no idea the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was encouraging frontmen for Mexico's cartels to buy weapons from U.S. gun dealers — to "trace" them afterward.

Some 2,000 U.S. guns were sold in Gunwalker but simply disappeared — until they turned up at massacres in Mexico and at the murder scenes of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata.

But outgoing ATF acting director Ken Melson and others who've been the fall guys in this scandal darkly hint that their orders came from the White House, and domestic critics think Gunwalker can only be explained as a White House bid to boost support for gun control. Restrepo's involvement distinctly raises both possibilities.

[Nachum]

(singing) Loooook for the Obaaaama label...

[Nachum]

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[yarddog]

Well at least someone gets it.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

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[hflynn]

Issa and Grassley are slow walking the Fast and Furious Gunwalker scandal to insure it will peak in 2012. Good for them. Get Holder 1st and then the DOJ firewall disappears for Obama. Look for Daley to walk out of the White House and then the Chicago firewall disappears. Our Imperial Teleprompter President as well as his Pakistani brain (Valerie Jarrett) will be toast before the election.

[MestaMachine]

[MileHi]

I hope it works just that way.

[Nachum]

I am hoping that somebody will turn on them all and spill their guts.

[Abundy]

If the WH didn't know (meaning Obama/Holder/Biden) then they are incompetent and need to go.

If they did know they are criminals and need to go to jail.

[GunRunner]

I need a new screen name.

[Nachum]

LOL

[Kaslin]

Your screen name is just fine

[paddles]

Yet another trail of breadcrumbs leads to the Center for American Progress...

[Travis McGee]

[thouworm]

Restrepo is buried up to his neck in BHO administration sewage.

“Restrepo was behind a U.S. bid to swiftly declare Honduras’ constitutional ouster of its president “a coup” and sanctioned the country...”

Really???

Mike Vanderboegh responds to IBD article and points to his previous article (April) on Restrepo:

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/09/investors-business-daily-asks-white.html

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/04/meet-dan-restrepo-is-dan-oliver-north.html

[Ancesthntr]

Issa and Grassley are slow walking the Fast and Furious Gunwalker scandal to insure it will peak in 2012. Good for them.

I must admit that I've been very itchy to see the whole thing spill out into the open, RFN, but it is better to put it on a slow boil so that the maximum "flavor" can be dragged out of this reprehensible plan to strip Americans of their 2nd Amendment rights by blaming "easy access to high-powered rifles" for crimes committed by Mexican drug cartels. This is INCREDIBLY obvious to anyone who looks at Obama, Holder and the rest of the gun-grabbers in the Administration, particularly in light of their promises to Sarah Brady that "things are in the works under the radar" for the gun-grabbing statists lobby.

I'd really like to see a special prosecutor - this is way worse than Watergate, even before anyone got literally murdered. Then we have the possibility of a "Deep Throat" who can substantiate the planning from the top, hopefully just in time to completely obliterate Odumbo next November.

[Rapscallion]

They would never be able to follow the guns once they crossed the border. But Congressional investigators can follow the money.

Look for a quid pro quo - let cartels get militarized weapons. In return, the cartel contributes money covertly to Obama's campaign. Simple as that.

[Rapscallion]

Yes Special Prosecutor is a good idea.

[robowombat]

Restrepo is something of a ghost on the net. Articles identified as ‘biography’ contain next to nothing. All I could find is his family is from Colombia, or as one said Spanish-Colombian, whatever that means. Nothing on where he grew up or where he went to collage or what he did before getting this position.

[Ken H]

I need a new screen name.

I think Fast&Furious is still open:)