Posted on 09/30/2011 8:19:30 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Did a threat to “go public” by the man who did the recording–Lone Wolf gun store owner Andre Howard–force the US Justice Department to provide the previously “secret” Fast and Furious tapes to CBS News?
Andre Howard was in a tough spot. For two years he had provided valuable Operation Fast and Furious assistance to the ATF, the FBI and the Phoenix office of the US Attorney, selling nearly 1000 firearms–at the insistence of these agencies–to some pretty unsavory characters.
But Howard knew many of the buyers should not have been approved by the FBI for the purchase of guns.
On December 17th of 2009, Howard met with Assistant US Attorney Emory Hurley, ATF case agent Hope Macallister and ATF Group Supervisor David Voth.
According to an email Hurley sent his boss, US Attorney Dennis Burke a YEAR LATER in January of 2011, Howard “…expressed concern about the cooperation he was providing and whether he was endangering himself or implicating himself in a criminal investigation.”
According to his email, Hurley told Howard to simply comply with the law when selling weapons. That is, “as long as the required forms are properly filled out and [Howard] did not know or have reason to know that the firearms were part of a straw purchase or intended to be used in a crime, that he could complete the transfer.”
Whether this was really what Hurley related to Howard in that 2009 meeting, we can’t know. But it seems far more likely that Hurley simply told Howard what an important job he was doing and that he should continue providing assistance to the ATF, the FBI and, of course, to the US Attorney’s office.
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Nope.
Andre Howard wisely realized he was being set up as the gov’t agencies...SCAPEGOAT!
Is this the first criminal anti-American act this Administration has done? NO! Communists screwed American and will continue forever.
Why else would they have made them public?
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ABSOLUTELY! And it has the makings of a scandal big enough to be the putative reason to force Obama to Step down.
Yep.
Step down?
Go to Jail.
Fast and Furious and Solyndra should not only be Obama’s downfall, but grounds for impeachment.
Instead, NOTHING will be done and NOTHING will happen to ANY of the players involved.
See if any of us can get away with not paying for $20 of gas!! There won’t be a hole deep enough to ythrow us into.
I agree! Instead the dems are working on someone to replace him and sending hints via MORRIS Obama will step down.They put party before country and all need accounted for.
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