White House, Congress should seek compromise (Milwaukee J-S barf alert)

Milwaukee J-S ^ | 01 july 2012

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Here’s a good compromise. A guilty plea from all concerned in exchange for reduced sentences.

[TigersEye]

Just forget about it?

Forget about BP Agent Brian Terry?

Forget about ICE Agent Jaime Zapata?

Forget about the murders of over 300 Mexican citizens, police and Mexican federal officers?

Forget that Holder lied under oath to the oversight committee at least twice?

Forget that the DoJ submitted a letter of explanation full of outright lies and let them stand for nine months?

Forget that Holder's in-house investigator has been investigating for 18 months and still hasn't come up with one name of who started and approved of this program and its policies?

Forget that 0bungles has used Executive Privilege to shield Holder in a completely frivolous and inappropriate use of that legal instrument?

Forget that the Dems, including Holder himself in the House, has used the Race Card to say that blacks don't have to abide by the rule of law?

Forget you!

[newzjunkey]

the American government became an unwitting accomplice

"Unwitting accomplice" doesn't mean what the writer thinks it means.

Oxford dictionary says, "(of a person) not aware of the full facts : an unwitting accomplice."

We know this to be FALSE. This was policy. They knew exactly what was happening. They are culpable.

Imagine a private sector parallel and actions taken against gun makers claiming they know cheap weapons will fall into the hands of criminals. Or if this case had happened during the Bush years.

If a wall of blind partisanship can allow the parties and participants of Fast-and-Furious to go untouched and blithely about their own lives and careers, we have no Justice. It can be argued we have no Law.

[supercat]

"Gun walking" was a lousy idea when the administration of President George W. Bush tried it - and it was still a bad idea when the administration of President Barack Obama resurrected it.

From what I understand, the Bush program tried to track the firearms in question, and was successful until the traffickers changed their strategies to evade tracking. That traffickers would at eventually figure out how to evade tracking measures would probably have been pretty clear, but how long it would take was unknown and unknowable. The program balanced the risk that the traffickers might evade detection before the government was aware they could do so, with a desire not to shot down the program until the traffickers developed the skills to evade it. While the program might ideally have been shut down sooner, that may be apparent only in retrospect.

By contrast, I'm unaware that there was ever any official effort to "track" the F&F guns beyond "see if they ever show up again". Many leftists manage to regard "see if they ever show up again" as a reasonable crime-fighting technique (Liberal Mind Fog Disorder preventing them from realizing both that guns given to known criminals are more apt to be used in crimes than guns held by law-abiding citizens, and that the information gained if the guns do show up again isn't apt to tell the government anything it doesn't already know), but it's certainly very different from trying to follow firearms shipments equipped with radio tracking devices.