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On the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart announced that he believed that Trump supporters are more of a threat than the Taliban or ISIS. Capehart called out 'MAGA and the domestic threat', which he said was far 'more worrisome than any foreign threat', during an appearance at PBS NewsHour on Friday. The Washington Post columnist and news host went on to describe the last several years as 'one giant step forward, and then two giant steps back.'

CNN's Don Lemon dismissed the rising popularity of Newsmax, saying the network will never have the staying power of rival Fox News. “Newsmax will be Newsmax, but it won’t be as powerful as Fox News,” Lemon said on air Tuesday. “It will never be as powerful as Fox News.” Lemon predicted that Newsmax and other smaller networks will fade into obscurity "by March" and Fox News's editorial tone will shift more toward the center in the post-Trump era.

CNN anchor Don Lemon, in his nightly handoff to colleague Chris Cuomo, suggested supporters of President Trump are just like drug addicts beyond saving. Lemon made the comments while discussing how the President continues to hold campaign rallies with supporters despite an ongoing pandemic. The host claimed he had to get rid of friends in his life who support Trump because they refuse to accept the ‘scientific evidence’ he would provide them in discussing COVID. “I had to get rid of them because they’re too far gone,” Lemon, who appears to be a really bad friend, said. “I try and...

Here are three major differences between Obama’s “Operation Fast and Furious” and Bush’s “Operation Wide Receiver” Bush and Obama each had a program where the U.S. government put guns into the hands of Mexican criminals. Bush’s program was called “Operation Wide Receiver,” and Obama’s program was called “Operation Fast and Furious.” However, there were three major differences between the two programs:First, Bush’s program was carried out with the knowledge, permission, and cooperation of the Mexican government, whereas Obama’s program was not. Mexican attorney general Marisela Morales told the Los Angeles Times that she first learned about Obama’s program from the news,...

Every Federal Firearms License holder and second amendment activist should read this book.   Guns Across the Border, The Inside Story more than meets the expectations prompted by the title.   It is an intensely personal insider look at what happened in the "Wide Receiver" gunrunning investigation that was the predecessor to the Fast and Furious scandal.  I met Mike Detty at the 2014 Shot Show in Las Vegas.   He struck me as a quick witted individual with a good head on his shoulders.    Mike Detty was at the core of the Wide Receiver ATF gunrunning investigation. The book is an...

Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation "Fast and Furious" to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales. PICTURES: ATF "Gunwalking" scandal timeline In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly encouraged gun dealers to sell to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels to go after the "big fish." But ATF whistleblowers told CBS News and Congress it was a dangerous practice called "gunwalking," and it put thousands of weapons on the street. Many were used in violent crimes in Mexico. Two were found at the murder...

Scandal: The president's spokesman confuses a "controlled delivery" operation known as Wide Receiver with the quite different Fast and Furious and couldn't even remember the name of the Border Patrol agent killed by it. When a Border Patrol agent is murdered in the service of his country as a result of a program run by his own government, one would think the White House press secretary would know his name. Jay Carney, his name was Brian Terry. During a contentious press conference where even the White House press corps seemed to have had enough with the administration's tap dancing about...

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Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) called on Congress to probe the existence of a government operation that allowed hundreds of weapons to enter Mexico under (Wide Receiver), George W. Bush.

The Justice Department sent nearly 500 pages of documents to Republican lawmakers Thursday that suggest the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives may have used questionable tactics and lost track of American-made weapons in a gun trafficking investigation on the Mexican border as early as 2006. The documents sent to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) could add a new dimension to a political controversy that's raged on Capitol Hill for a year. Issa and other Republican lawmakers have accused the Obama administration of acting recklessly by losing track of almost 2,000 guns on the...

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Documents released last week by the Department of Justice provide evidence that, in April of 2010, key Department officials discussed COVERING UP details of the 2007 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Operation Wide Receiver in order to prevent further erosion of confidence in the ATF. Emails exchanged between Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer make it clear that, at the time, both DOJ officials were more concerned with preserving the reputation of the ATF than smearing that of the Bush Administration. This finding puts in obvious question Breuer’s November 1st testimony before the...

ATF legal counsel had "moral objections" to gunwalking By: Sharyl Attkisson November 3, 2011 5:18 PMWASHINGTON - An ATF attorney raised "moral objections" to a plan to provide criminals with firearms "to be released into the community, and possibly into Mexico, without any further ability by the U.S. Government to control their movement or future use." That's according to a memo written to the U.S. Attorney in Arizona in July of 2006. Yet ATF went ahead with the so-called "gunwalking," in its operation "Wide Receiver," and later in "Fast and Furious" and numerous other cases. Gunwalking refers to a...

Email correspondence and handwritten notes obtained today by Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars and this correspondent provide details on information and strategy being shared between top level officials of the Department of Justice and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, including between Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer and then-ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson. A total of seven documents are presented herein, including: * A Feb. 4, 2011 letter from Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Weich denying the walking of guns, itself the subject of a Feb. 8 Gun Rights Examiner column. * Email correspondence between Breuer and Melson. *...

Senator Grassley et al. is hearing Lanny Breuer et al. now about organized crime, "Fast and Furious" and "Wide Receiver" at the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime & Terrorism.

“No evidence of Mexico cooperation in Tucson ATF probe,” Tim Steller of The Arizona Daily Star reports. There seems to be an emerging talking point related to the Operation Fast and Furious scandal that "The Bush administration did it too, but they did it right by working with Mexico." …From what I've seen so far, that's not true. That certainly looks bad for those maintaining the Bush-era probe was different from the Obama administration’s incarnation. Case settled? "No evidence"? Hardly. Documentation exists, and curiously, Steller even refers to it in his report: [AP reporter Pete] Yost wrote a follow up...

What is it with regressives named “Weiner”? No, not this subversive degenerate. This time it’s the “former spokesman for the House Government Reform Committee” creepily exposing himself for what he is. From his recent press release: Bob Weiner, has called on current Committee Chairman Darryl Issa (R-CA) to subpoena ex-Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales for the first guns-to-Mexican cartels fiasco if he is calling current Attorney General Eric Holder. Robert Weiner, who was the committee’s spokesman under Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) for five years before becoming spokesman for the White House Drug Policy Office, called for a “rise...

One was a failed law enforcement operation. The other was a possible criminal conspiracy. There seem to be two avenues of document extraction in the ongoing Gunwalker scandal, in addition to witness testimony. One is the subpoena process being used by House and Senate committees investigating the plot. The other is selective leaking to favored media sources, which appears to be a preferred tactic of the White House. The former is official process, the latter an attempt to short-circuit the process. Both approaches have been used in a pair of articles released via the Associated Press (via National Public Radio)...

The evidence continues to cast strong doubts on the attorney general's truthfulness. Friday was just another day in a continuing series of bad days for the administration of President Barack Obama, as the furor surrounding the executive branch’s gun-walking scandal continues to escalate. The day began with a gritty montage-style video from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, asking the question few in the media are willing to ask about the gun-walking program: Holder vs. White House: Who Is Responsible? Like a duffel bag stuffed with straw-purchased Draco pistols, the day quickly went “south” from there.The White House...

Exclusive report by Gun Rights Examiner “The ATF, the agency that's supposed to stop gun smuggling, turned a blind eye for years, as hundreds of guns ‘walked’ across the Mexican border,” Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News reported Wednesday. The subject of the report was licensed firearms dealer Mike Detty, who volunteered to become a confidential informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives after he suspected straw purchases were being made by suspicious customers to arm drug cartels. “The federal government under the Bush administration ran an operation that allowed hundreds of guns to be transferred to suspected...