Posted on 10/05/2011 10:01:15 AM PDT by matthewreporter
Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona told The Daily Caller the Obama administration officials responsible for Operation Fast and Furious might be accessories to murder.
“We’re talking about consequences of criminal activity — where we actually allowed guns to walk into the hands of criminals — where our livelihoods are at risk,” Gosar said in a phone interview. “When you facilitate that and a murder or a felony occurs, you’re called an accessory. That means that there’s criminal activity.”
Gosar said the government should be held to the same standard as everyone else. Fast and Furious weapons were used to kill U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, as well as scores of Mexican citizens, and he thinks that administration officials should be held accountable.
“We impugn the private sector, we impugn main street America, and the bureaucracy cannot be held to any different standard whatsoever,” Gosar told TheDC. “They [the Justice Department and ATF officials] intentionally — intentionally — violated the law.”
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>The interesting thing is that even if everyone involved gets a Presidential pardon... Mexico is still going to want them and we have an extradition treaty with them.
>And Presidential pardons do not apply to crimes committed in or against foreign nations.
Interesting; would you happen to know if the Presidential pardon is effective against [Grand Jury] presentments?
And what of local (non-federal) Grand Juries; conceivably a presidential pardon would not carry over to crimes against the various States because of the 10th Amendment. If that be the case then considering that most States themselves have treason defined in their State Constitutions they could be charged individually by the States for Treason [against that State]. I should think AZ would have an easy time of it, as they can point to F&F, and the federal refusal to enforce immigration law (and also refusing to uphold Art 4 Sec 4 of the US Constitution) as all individually — and undoubtedly collectively — giving aid and comfort to the enemies of AZ, to wit the Mexican cartels.
You slander Reagan. Your a creep.
AK-47’s sold to drug cartels .... by our own justice department? This is insanity or treason. Holder and Obama should be locked up for life. These people really do hate America. AK-47’s ? OMG.
Exactly. As early as last July, BATFE was still leaking the info that the ballistics testing was *inconclusive.* And it was reported around the end of that month that that was not the case. FBI report at odds with ATF claim on weapons
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On 1120 KMOX today, they reported that the Bush “incident” involved a man who was buying several guns from a gun dealer, who called the ATF about the legal, but in his mind, suspicious sale. The customer came back to purchase more, and the ATF sent an agent to watch him from the parking lot. The ATF approved the sale, presumably because there was nothing they could do to deny it.
How that is in any way equal to Fast and Furious is only something a liberal mind could come up with.
The lib-media and Rats are going to have to try to blow major smoke to sell "Bush did it too" with all the agents who have lined up to out this fiasco saying the opposite.
The Democrats claimed that the Mexican violence was due to US guns. Then the statistics showed very few crimes were committed by US guns, SO the administration decided they wanted to change that. By Fast and Furious selling guns to the gangs, they could blame America and institute gun control laws.
Yeah, but not as federally funded government programs. Klinton’s death list were more or less extra-cirricular, other than Waco and Ruby Ridge. Of course they were terrible but the do pale in comparison to this.
Outrageous! Shameful! I grieve for the families of the victims, and for our government to be this infested with corrupt, cancerous maggots.
There is no may be to it.
Ricky and Racky supplied the murder weapon. How is this a may be?
Thank you
I think there was pnly one single case where they tried to attach gps tracking devices to the weapons. The main idea was, as unbelievable as it sounds, to track the weapons by waiting for them to show up at crime scenes in Mexico, where the Mexican law enforcement would find them and request an ATF trace on them.
That fact, to me, lends a lot of credence to the theory that this was just an attempt to gin up support for gun control by pumping up the statistics of guns trafficked to Mexico from the US.
And the one single case was an agent—without the okay or support of his superiors—bought a gps tracker at radio shack and paid for it out of his own pocket.
Dr. Paul Gosar is my Representative. I am so proud of him for his work with Issa on this. Issa described Dr. Gosar as very tough in his work on this issue in the Oversight Committee and I think that proves true by this very strong PUBLIC statement.
I did get on his case when he voted for the Continuing Resolution and to raise the debt limit, but this makes me proud and lucky to have him as my Rep!
It never worked.
Look at your violent borders. There is now a war on the Texas border, tens of thousands have been murdered in Mexico and in the border regions.
And what did your government do? Instead of securing our borders, they ALLOWED these AH's take weapons from the U.S. into Mexico...Knowing damn well once they cross the borders, they went into a black hole...No way they were going to follow them. That was all BS.
The entire operation going way back, was no doubt designed to cause epic violence, and in the end, they would have an excuse to implement more punitive control over law abiding citizens and their 2nd Amendment rights, right here in the U.S.
Everything going into the realm of the cartels is swept for GPS & electronic surveillance devises. We know this. The feds know this.
The cartels are now worth billions. They control half of Mexico. Why would they take chances?
This is all a concocted sham with extremely devious motives.
“I’d say Criminal Negligent Homicide.”
Not just a violation of United States Law , and a violation of Mexican Law , since it went across international borders it is now subject to the UN , and “The Hague” as an international incident.
As such , prosecution can occur on any one , or all three of those jurisdictions . This is the equivelent of arming criminal pirates (drug cartels).
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