Posted on 09/30/2011 3:58:22 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
The usual truism is that many politicians make the mistake of not coming completely clean when allegations of wrongdoing surface. The cover-up, it is said, is often worse than the underlying crime or ethical violation. This has often been cited as the mistake made by people including Richard Nixon (Watergate break-in), Bill Clinton (Lewinsky, not to mention Filegate and Travelgate), and John Edwards (love child and cheating on his cancer-stricken wife). More recently, Anthony Weiner. There is a long list.
But in some cases, the crime, or lapse in judgment, is definitely worse than the cover-up. That appears to be the case in a simmering scandal engulfing the Obama administration that the mainstream media have tried their best to ignore for many months. It is known as Operation Fast and Furious.
It involves the Obama Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). It involves some 1,500 guns, about 1,000 of which ended up in Mexico, and a Border agent, Brian Terry, who was murdered with weapons found near the scene of the crime in Arizona. The weapons were among 57 linked to Fast and Furious which have been tied to at least 11 violent crimes in the U.S., including the Terry murder. The Justice Department, while largely stonewalling, has admitted this much to Congress, as reported by The Los Angeles Times. In addition, at least 200 people have been killed or wounded in Mexico with weapons linked to the operation.
There has been some reporting on the incident in the mainstream press, but not much. Congressional hearings have taken place under the chairmanship of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). Charles Grassley has led the way in the Senate. But they have mostly been met by a stonewalling Justice Department.
There has been some good reporting by Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News, and Brian Ross of ABC News. Fox News has been all over the story, and Sean Hannity had a one-hour special back in July devoted to this emerging scandal. Others in the conservative media have done an excellent job, including Pajamas Media, Michelle Malkin, Andy McCarthy of National Review Online, American Thinker, WorldNetDaily, the Heritage Foundation and Andrew Breitbart through his many platforms, among others. This has perhaps been why the mainstream media have largely ignored the story. Even when they have reported it, they have gone to great lengths to be sure that it didn’t implicate President Obama, much less his Attorney General Eric Holder, for anything other than being out of the loop.
But that may have ended with recent revelations that the federal government apparently purchased weapons and sold them directly to criminals in Mexico. As Michael Walsh of the New York Post wrote, “the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apparently ordered one of its own agents to purchase firearms with taxpayer money, and sell them directly to a Mexican drug cartel. Let that sink in: After months of pretending that ‘Fast and Furious’ was a botched surveillance operation of illegal gun-running spearheaded by the ATF and the US Attorney’s office in Phoenix, it turns out that the government itself was selling guns to the bad guys.”
This revelation may prove to be the game changer, and force the Obama administration to turn this over to an independent counsel.
Last night the story gained critical mass in the establishment media. CNN decided it can no longer duck and cover, and shield the Obama administration from a scandal that has the potential to make Whitewater and Watergate pale by comparison. Anderson Cooper deserves a lot of credit for putting this story together. In a long overdue report that I urge you to watch, he detailed much of what is known so far, including comments from Rep. Issa talking about the stonewalling he has met from the Justice Department, and from Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County in Arizona, who talked about the betrayal and potential criminal activity perpetrated by U.S. government officials.
Cooper’s reporter on this story, Drew Griffin, tried to explain a possible motive for Fast and Furious. He said that “the operation makes no sense.” So in attempting to explain it, he invoked the usual bogeymen. “So what's the real purpose?,” asked Griffin. “The lack of sense, the apparent cover-up has opened the door now for these conspiracy theorists. And you got to follow this. They believe this was part of a convoluted plan for the Obama administration and the attorney general to actually increase the level of violence on the Mexican border with assault weapons purchased in the U.S. in an apparent attempt to rekindle interest in an assault weapons ban. As wacky as that may sound, I must tell you that theory is gaining traction, not just among the second amendment crowd, because this operation makes no other sense.”
Griffin is correct that such theories are out there. But until some independent entity can get to the bottom of this, hopefully with the cooperation of the Obama administration rather than the stonewalling and obstruction that has characterized their response up to now, the reasons for the operation might remain theoretical. Let’s see if the cover-up proves worse than the crimes.
The difference between Mexican and black gangs —black gangs have no REAL cohesion —they flip on each other all the time, and when the guys do time there are NO provisions for taking care of the guy’s family.
Here suddenly Obama’s making noises about DISSOLVING the ATF —see how it’s the same, even on the tippy top...? Is anyone really fooled by this?
Every ATF guy —even the bad ones— will start spilling the beans. Hey that’s fiiiine, though...!
That Border Patrol guy was possibly killed by the weapon of an FBI informant —there were 3 guns, not 2, and ballistics tests ruled out the first 2 reported weapons as the murder weapon.
SOME AMERICAN (probably AmercanS) ARE ACCESSORIES TO A L.E.O. MURDER.
I think we know who that is.
Chilling, isn’t it? WHAT WOULD THIS MAN NOT DO...?
“The lack of sense, the apparent cover-up has opened the door now for these conspiracy theorists. And you got to follow this. They believe this was part of a convoluted plan for the Obama administration and the attorney general to actually increase the level of violence on the Mexican border with assault weapons purchased in the U.S. in an apparent attempt to rekindle interest in an assault weapons ban. As wacky as that may sound...”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ijuODgMYME
Don't see how that could be possible. This is just as bad as, or worse than, renegades selling repeating rifles to the Indians in the late 19th Century.
I can’t stand Anderson Cooper so I didn’t watch the clip.
I have read today, though, that he was visibly stunned at points during the interviews when he realized that this was serious.
People in this country had best wake up and smell the killing fields that inhabit the imaginations of the current occupants of the White House.
Millions of us dead, the rest of us in chains. That's their goal. Some of them have said as much. And they're NOT joking.
If the theory of elevating the violence of assault guns in order to ban assault guns is remotely true, every Hispanic voter in the US must consider these actions by the adminstration:
1. Mexicans were chosen to be both the tools and the victims;
2. The value of the life of the Mexican victims were deemed less that that of a desired socialist policy (isn’t that true about human life in all socialist policies);
3. Obama would then use the Hispanic population in the US to assist him in achieving the goal of banning assault weapons;
There is nothing surprising in this about this administration. Will the Hispanics recognize that they were chosen as both the victims and the puppets in an attempt to achieve this socialist goal?
I hope that when we get a Republican administration in 2012, they don’t decide to sweep all this crap under the rug for the “good of the country”.
| Considering the level of stupidity on display at ATF, the agency might want to consider an insanity defense. In a sane world, Congress would impeach at least the Department heads involved and depending on his involvement take impeachment action against the President himself. Instead, he's running for re-election. |
Have another muffin Eric.
"Report: Woman survives live grenade in face"
"Sources: Five grenades thrown in Rio Bravo[Mexico]"
"Child Finds (Live) Grenade Near Local Creek]"
[Mexico:]Grenade attacks throughout Tamaulipas; shootouts reported'
"[South Texas]Border Patrol finds rocket launcher, grenade launcher,
explosives near Rio Grande “
Fast & Furious: Congress expanding probe to include grenades
With committed Marxist revolutionaries it always comes down to mass murder in the name of the common good. Their motto is “You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet” . Bill Ayers openly stated that in the 70’s we would have to kill 50 million Americans to implement his Marxist revolution. He has never recanted this goal.
It's clear that, no matter how you play it, in order for Fast and Furious to work people had to be murdered by the “walked” weapons (including explosives and not just guns we now learn) and then recovered at crime scenes, so murder was an intended consequence of F&F.
The murders of hundreds of Mexicans, Agent Terry and many others to come in the future are just the price we pay to implement the Obama Agenda. This shows that those in charge have absolutely no qualms about engineering the murders of fellow Americans. Some, like Voth, not only had no qualms about innocent deaths due to trafficking guns to further their agenda, they were “giddy” when their plan came together and Fast and Furious guns were found at murder scenes.
Voth is a prime example of the petty, banal, souless , viscious and murderous psychopaths that always seem to rise to the top of Totalitarian Dictatorial regimes. Voth follows footsteps of such notables as Robespierre, Guevara, Eichmann, Mengle, Pol Pot, Beria, Bin Laden, Torquemada, de Sade, Gaius Caligula, Winne Mandela, General Butt Naked, and any one of thousands of brutal, torturing sadists working for the leaders of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, The Taliban, Pakisatan .......
The list goes on and on ad infinitum. There are a lot of Leftist in America who can barely contain their burning desire to round up those who are the focus of their black hatreds to punish and eliminate them in their own Americanized “Final Solution” to eliminate those pesky road blocks on the expressway to Utopia.
The democrats need to have Obama resign. The sooner the better. The longer he stays in power, the more damage he does to our country. Don’t we have any honorable democrats left?
Paybacks with kickbacks to Obama for his new campaign.
Bill Ayers said 25 million would be an exceptable number.. I say try it!
What's REALLY chilling is that there are so many people in this country willing to do his bidding without question or qualm. Now, THAT'S scary.
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