Posted on 09/19/2011 11:24:49 PM PDT by Watchdog85
WASHINGTON - "Watch your back," the gun dealer warns the ATF Agent in an audio recording obtained by CBS News.
The secretly recorded conversations are between the primary gun dealer cooperating with ATF in its "Fast and Furious" operation, Andre Howard, and lead case ATF agent Hope MacAllister.
Howard owns Lone Wolf Trading Company in Glendale, Arizona.
Secret recordings raise new questions in AFT 'Gunwalker' case
As CBS News first reported last February, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allegedly allowed thousands of weapons to "walk" onto the streets without interdiction into the hands of suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels in its operation "Fast and Furious."
In the following audio excerpts, the gun dealer Howard and ATF Agent MacAllister discuss possible involvement in the investigation into Fast and Furious by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). They also mention Attorney General Eric Holder.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
What a lame plan at best, deeply cynical to hell at worst. This Lone Wolf guy is telling us the ATF never got around to any of the ballyhooed “stings” on the walked guns but just told him to keep walking them. Hey, even gun dealers have a conscience, who’da thunk it!
Text of the audio excerpts below.
EXCERPT 1
Dealer: Question: do your people have any confidence that you can forestall subpoena? Or is it still up in the air?
Agent: No, my understanding is person, the only people that can request a congressional hearing has to be a majority party. Grassley is a Republican.
Dealer: I know.
Agent: And as of right now...
Dealer: In the Senate right.
Agent: Yeh. And as of right now we don’t have any interest from anybody in the majority party to the extent that he’s shown interest. So even if you wanted to at this point unless he gets CUTS OUT somebody from the majority party to jump on board, he can’t...
Dealer: Not on his own no but you know Leahy and rest of ‘em these people are snakes, they’ll do anything they can...
Agent: My understanding also is that the Attorney General’s office is supposed to come out little bit stronger...um...
Dealer: I understand that.
Agent: position...which may or may not, um, you know, help.
Dealer: I’ll tell you what I’ll give him that, he’s got f-—ing b-—s making that statement. I don’t wanna even go there.
EXCERPT 2
Dealer: Until something else happens they’re not stupid, Hope, they connect the dots.
Agent: No and you know and all that’s fine if Senator Grassley wants to come in and tell us show us how to work these cases more efficiently more effectively by all means.
Dealer: Don’t think Grassley, think Leahy.
Agent: Well, him too. I... I welcome him to come down and work...
Dealer: He’s an arrogant b-——d
Agent: So is Grassley though
Dealer: Chuck probably and I don’t know a thing about him other than from somebody else I’ve heard seems to be just somebody who’s hitching his wagon to any star to.. for his own aggrandizement.
Agent: Yeh
Dealer: You know that. He’s an arrogant
Agent: Yeh
Dealer: individual. Look he’s a United States senator there it is right there.
EXCERPT 3
Agent: That’s kind of what my suggestion but nobody thought that was funny like if I were a P.I. I’d put him on Grassley, I’m sure there’s a lot would go away. Actually my one suggestion was just tell him in a registered Republican. I’m sure if he knew that everything would be fine, they didn’t like that either.
Dealer: Well.
Agent: Alright.
Dealer: You gotta be, watch your back. I don’t trust these people around you one bit. You’ve been very lucky so far.
Agent: Again I’ll be more than happy to talk to somebody, they won’t let me, but more than happy to talk to anybody about the decisions we made.
Dealer: Hope, stay off the screen. You don’ t need this sh—. Neither does your husband.
Agent: Believe me I have...
Dealer: You gotta have a f-——g life man.
Agent: I have a file and...
Dealer: shhh
Agent: It’s all, it’s all public stuff I dont’ care.
Dealer: Well don’t even convey it in that. I’m sure you do. Hopefully this thing will subside...
Agent: You keep saying that but ?
Dealer: I know.
Dealer: You and I both know how bad it’s gonna get I won’t bull-—t you you don’t bull-—t me
Agent: Ha ha.
Dealer: my a— is up here and yours is here here but you’re covered I’m out in the open
Agent: Ha ha.
Dealer: God.
Thanks for the transcript.
That's what my new congressman, Blake Farenthold says. He points out that both the US and Mexican governments know who the drug lords are. The ATF was only following the guns just one or two levels down from the purchasers, then losing the chain of custody beyond that.
This is political dynamite. Clinton and his Lewinskys and cigar were disgusting, but that line “it’s all about sex” really did take most of the sting out.
Gunwalker is different. American law enforcement officials have died. This goes beyond sex, and incompetence. This is close to treasonous.
So why CBS is chasing this so aggressively? Could it be that they have realized that being so deeply in the tank for the Bamster has destroyed their credibility and are hoping for a “Watergate” type takedown of an unpopular President to restore the luster to their name?
A secret deal with Hillary?
The rumblings about a primary challenge to Obama are getting louder by the day. The sharks are circling...
Interesting times...
How did cbs let her get this report on the air?
Have the msm been given the word from soros that it's time to take obama out and start paving the way for hitlery?
My wife has said for 18 months, that obama had agreed before his election, that he'd be a tool for the left and would serve only one term {if the demonRATS lost the house and/or senate}.
It’s called the ping ping effect. They are going back and forth with this and the budget. People do not have the attention Spanish to focus on one thing.
As this heats up, the budget kicks in. When it looks like the budget is going for a train wreck, ping... Something else.
This is the downfall of a Presidency. CBS knows they are protected. Report away! No one cares.
The CBS nightly news is what counts, and last night they "didn't have time" to cover a major break in a story that is worse than Watergate times Irancontra.
The sheeple still have no clue about this mega scandal, because the Pravda Press is in full coverup mode.
Thanks, Travis.
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