Posted on 09/13/2011 12:55:55 PM PDT by neverdem
The more we learn about the “Fast and Furious” scandal — in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) illegally facilitated the transfer of thousands of guns to violent drug cartels in Mexico — the more apparent it is that we are witnessing a large-scale cover-up of epic proportions.
In fact, it’s getting difficult to keep up with all of the shuffling of key agency personnel who were involved in the deadly scandal. Here is a brief run-down of what transpired over the past two weeks:
* BATFE director Kenneth Melson was reassigned by Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department to a new senior advisor role at the agency’s headquarters in Washington.
* Dennis Burke, the U.S. attorney for the District of Arizona, resigned from his post.
* Thanks to the tenacious investigations being led by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-IA), it is now apparent that the lead prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Arizona, Emory Hurley, initially sought to cover up the fact that at least two illegal “Fast and Furious” guns were found at the murder scene of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. The Justice Department recently transferred Hurley out of its criminal division to its civil division.
* We now know that White House officials knew more about the deadly “Fast and Furious” operation than they previously disclosed. Three White House officials — Kevin O’Reilly, Dan Restrepo and Greg Gatjanis — all received back-channel communications about “Fast and Furious” from BATFE’s then-special agent in charge of Phoenix, Bill Newell. Newell, as you might recall, was recently reassigned to a new job at Justice Department headquarters.
The Obama administration’s continued stonewalling and seemingly orchestrated cover-up of the “Fast and Furious” scandal is only adding to the overall tragedy of this situation.
It’s tragic that this harebrained scheme cost people their lives, including a brave American Border Patrol agent. It’s also tragic that at the same time the Obama administration was purposefully arming Mexican drug lords, Obama, Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were blaming American gun owners and our Second Amendment rights for violent crime in Mexico.
But as White House officials continue to hide details related to this scandal, they are now doing serious damage to the rule of law upon which our republic was built.
The longer this drags on, the more lasting the damage will be — not only to our overall institution of government but also to the ability of future leaders to hold federal agencies accountable and protect the sanctity of our freedoms.
For this reason, it’s time for an independent prosecutor to be assigned to this case. Only then will we have any chance of learning the truth so we can fix the problem.
Chris W. Cox is the Executive Director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) and serves as the organization’s chief lobbyist.
But I guess none of the presstitutes want to win a Pulitzer.
(Actually, they know that there will be no prizes for coverage of this debacle.)
Add this to Solyndra... and kiss the Kenyan good riddance.
Some of these federal executives are accessories to murder.They need to be charged and tried.Mexico wants them extradited for murder trials.
In the fall of 2009, ATF agents installed a secret phone line and hidden cameras in a ceiling panel and wall at Andre Howard’s Lone Wolf gun store. They gave him one basic instruction: Sell guns to every illegal purchaser who walks through the door.
For 15 months, Howard did as he was told. To customers with phony IDs or wads of cash he normally would have turned away, he sold pistols, rifles and semiautomatics. He was assured by the ATF that they would follow the guns, and that the surveillance would lead the agents to the violent Mexican drug cartels on the Southwest border.
When Howard heard nothing about any arrests, he questioned the agents. Keep selling, they told him. So hundreds of thousands of dollars more in weapons, including .50-caliber sniper rifles, walked out of the front door of his store in a Glendale, Ariz., strip mall.
He was making a lot of money. But he also feared somebody was going to get hurt.
“Every passing week, I worried about something like that,” he said. “I felt horrible and sick.”
And, add both to Gibson...
I have to admit to being a little confused about the two, “Fast and Furious” & “Project Gunrunner “.
Fraudulent Birth Certificate. Blind faith in the AGW/IPCC CO2 scam. Fast and Furious. Solyndra. This type of fraud occurs when government makes idealogical decisions instead of using sound judgement. We must boot obama and the rest of the socialist democratics idealogical rear ends out of office in 2012 and get this country back on track.
Fast and Furious....Independent Prosecutor!
Gunrunner..........Independent Prosecutor!
Solyndra............Independent Prosecutor!
NOW!
That’s a dynamite graphic!
...BHO, "Anybody seen that Mexican crack pipe I traded all those guns for?"
> Check out article, - and # 8 will make you ill.
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That’s a dynamite graphic too!
Is noose tightening PING?
. California To Get An Additional $900M From Feds For Rail
Feds Give Florida $800M More For High-Speed Rail
Feds OK $230 Million For Chicago-To-Iowa City Train Service
Connecticut Getting $121M In Federal Rail Funds
New Hampshire To Get $2M To Study Rail Project
I have not followed up on this.......just remember the RUSH to approve the bail out money.....NO to Obama's NEW JOB"S PLAN!!!
Crazy sick. The administration is arming for a revolution against us.
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