Posted on 11/03/2011 9:24:31 AM PDT by neverdem
Since finding out about Operation Fast and Furious, Arizona Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has been anything but amused. With no regard for local law enforcement, the Obama Justice Department supplied the most dangerous criminals in North America with high powered weapons, including .50-calibur sniper rifles and AK-47s, leading to the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and at least 200 innocent Mexican citizens. Now with the Southern border still wide open, Babeu and his deputies will face the barrels of those guns as they do their job to combat Mexican drug cartels illegally operating in Arizona.
Today, Babeu's office confirmed two guns found during a massive drug smuggling bust against the Sinaloa Cartel in Pinal County, were provided through Operation Fast and Furious.
"I am outraged our Federal Government has armed one of the largest and most dangerous of the Mexican drug cartels with as many as 2,000 high powered weapons. This is the same cartel we have been investigating for the past fifteen months for various crimes including a murder in my County. We have arrested 76 suspects and seized 108 weapons. We have now have learned two of the weapons we seized are in fact linked to Operation Fast and Furious. U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was only doing his job when he was viciously murdered by Mexican bandits with Fast and Furious weapons. Thankfully none of our members were murdered this time," Babeu tells Townhall.
I sat down with Sheriff Babeu in September when he warned of this very situation, noting that guns will be recovered at violent crime scenes for years to come.
“It’s not going to end, there are at least 1500 guns out there and we have no clue where they are,” Babeu said.
While Sheriff Babeu and his deputies are doing their best to fight these cartels with limited resources, the Obama Justice Department has been arming the enemy with weapons Babeu’s deputies don’t even have.
“Outrage and betrayal. This has never happened before in the history of our country. We may have given armaments and weapons to our allies who may have later become our enemy, but we’ve never given them directly to our enemy,” Babeu said when asked about his initial reaction to Operation Fast and Furious.
“These are the most violent criminals in North America and we facilitated and gave weapons, weapons that my deputies don’t even have, to these cartels,” he said. “It’s more than insane, it is horrific to think that our own government did this.”
Zero operating below the radar
FF ping
I heard a report that one of the men picked up in this drug bust was deported back to Mexico, and within three days, was stopped BACK in AZ for speeding. They found 1.5 pounds of heroin in the car. Ping.
The list, ping
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Obama and his administration need to be impeached and brought up on charges of illegal gun running, violation of US and Mexican and international law, murder, murder of a federal agent, etc.
Could it go
all the
way to
1600 Pennsylvania, Avenue?
I feel sooo much better knowing that.
bttt
Thanks for the ping Nachum.
What I want for New Year is Holder's impeachment, at the least.
I know some don't believe the GOP has the guts because they're afraid of being called racists. If a military general approved an operation risking friendly fire and collateral damage casualties using a lame tactic for a dubious mission, he or she would be canned.
This is an Attorney General that got friendly fire and collateral damage Mexican KIAs from American gun stores at the urging of the ATF, maybe nailing only straw purchasers, or so they claimed. IIRC, at least some of the straw purchasers were DEA and FBI informants using stimulus funds! And Holfer is going to plead ignorance again like the Mark Rich fiasco when he had been familiar with Rich's case for years?
Impeaching Holder has too much potential for picking up seats in the Senate next year. How can a rat in the Senate not vote to remove Holder, unless they have a safe seat? If the pubbies blow it, and Obama gets re-elected, then the GOP should join the Whigs, IMHO.
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[How ya doing Eric 'My People' Holder? Poopin' in yer pants yet? No. Well you should be.]
HOORAY Katie Pavlich! Thanks for the post/ping/comments. BTTT!
>Impeaching Holder has too much potential for picking up seats in the Senate next year. How can a rat in the Senate not vote to remove Holder, unless they have a safe seat? If the pubbies blow it, and Obama gets re-elected, then the GOP should join the Whigs, IMHO.<
So far there have been what 31 calls for holders resignation?
And I understand the frustration, anger, betrayal, corruption, criminal aspects of all of it. But the pragmatic aspects of this must come into play as well. The bottom line is somehow the congress, senate and presidency have to be wrestled away from the marxists posing as american democrats using our political system and msm to overtake the country in the voting booth.
I don’t know if impeachment is the right way to go.
Now, Impeachment is one way to go. But not the only way to go.
he is not the president. He is not an elected official, he is an appointed agency head. He can be arrested for crimes.
MUCH Better IMHO. Takes the politics down a step. Sure they can say it was politically motivated - but it takes the decision making process of guilt or innocence out of politics and into a jury of 12.
There it is.
Thanks for the ping!
He was hurrying to make the required delivery to the Chicago bastard boy’s residence, for an up coming visit the pResident was making to Chicomcago land.
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