Posted on 07/16/2011 12:11:41 AM PDT by marktwain
When the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee released a report -- “The Department of Justice’s Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents” (pdf) -- it infuriated law enforcement officers and American citizens across the country.
One police commander in New Jersey told Law Enforcement Examiner, "We need to get to the bottom of this renegade operation fast. I am furious that our government actually contributed to the killing of two American law enforcement officers -- one in the U.S., the other in Mexico."
The (at times) shocking report includes testimony from four Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agents offering firsthand accounts about the controversial Operation Fast and Furious that allowed suspects to walk away with illegally purchased guns.
The gunrunners reportedly smuggled the weapons into Mexico and the agents, who were supposed to conduct surveillance, lost track of the suspected gun smugglers and the weapons which are believed to still be in the hands of Mexican drug cartel members.
"This is a prime example of an administration that is clueless in running a law enforcement operation," said former intelligence officer and police detective Mike Snopes.
"[Attorney General Eric] Holder and his minions are being deceptive in this case claiming they were unaware of the operation," said Snopes.
It is 51 pages long, and provides fascinating reading of what happened from the ATF agents viewpoint on the ground.
Gunwalker ping.
...Deal me in, Sam...(:
Darrell Issa WILL get to this one, right?
What an oxymoron—the Department of Justice. What a joke.
Department of Payback is more llike it.
That's because you spelled it wrong.
With this lot, it's the "Department of Just Us".
Will this be the the domino, that when it falls sufficiently, begin the nasty process of outing of all of the rest of the mysterious garbage surrounding pResident Crybaby? One can dream. Congress’ appointing special cousel to look into the matter would be an excellent place to start. If the Plame affair can merit special congressional focus, then F&F should merit much more intensity of scrutiny. Our own agents are, along with an unknown and an as-yet unknowable number of others, dead because of this.
I suspect that this goes back to Obama, and if the matter is explored with the gravity that it deserves, the fallout is going to make Watergate look like a second rate burglary by political operatives against other political operatives or something. Oh, wait.
Is this Obama’s Iran-Contra moment? Who gets the blame? Where is Ollie North to blame for this?
These reports ought infuriate lawmen and citizen alike. They suggest a crime WORSE than Watergate— and suggest a young enlisted trainee at Ft.Campbell was right to ask the DI —
“What if that weakest link you speak of is the Commander in Chief/President?” In 2009 when Eric Holder assumed his appointed position he changed an existing program and it appears his motivation was to manufacture evidence to support his Presidents’ “mandate” for “gun control”? And some time later this same zealot created a plan to arm MS13 for the same apparent reason. My question is when a law enforcer chooses to violate the laws and Reason under the guise of enforcing the law — Where is the criminal? —What is Justice?
Holder suggested he was operating under the approval and as an agent for the change Obama has claimed central to his administration. The resolution cannot be found in this Administration or Congress— IT MUST come form the people- and the longer we wait the less likely we will find a solution suited to the crime.
From the article, they’re not clueless. This is a straight up gun running operation into first Mexico, and now Honduras. These jokers knew exactly where the arms were going, and the only question I have is: to what purpose?
This was NOT a “renegade” or “rogue” operation. It was sanctioned—at a minimum—at the highest levels of the Deprtment of Justice.
This was NOT a “renegade” or “rogue” operation. It was sanctioned—at a minimum—at the highest levels of the Deprtment of Justice.
Sorry, not clueless... The administration knew exactly what they were doing, but it had nothing to do with "law enforcement." It had everything to do with "law creation." These "operations" (both F&F and at least one other, which seems to have gotten weapons into the hands of MS13 in Honduras) had one purpose. To generate the "evidence" needed to "prove" that American gun stores and the legal ownership of firearms were the primary supplier of guns to the Mexican gun cartels, MS13, and I would suspect, terrorist groups. That "evidence" would then be used to enact the most draconian gun control laws imaginable.
I doubt that any thought was given to what might happen should the guns actually get into the hands of these criminals, since the goal was to seize the weapons from those criminals. As Wayne LaPierre once said, "the Administration is willing to accept a certain level of violence." However, it seems that THIS administration is willing to accept mass murders, as well as the murder of American law enforcement agents in order to ensure their political ends are met. The outlawing of the private ownership of firearms.
Mark
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