Posted on 11/29/2011 8:22:08 AM PST by Qbert
Item 1: In March of 2011, President Obama denied knowledge of 'Operation Fast and Furious' -- the Justice Department program that sent thousands of murder weapons to Mexican drug cartels.
25 March 2011 - Under fire for an operation that allowed smuggling of U.S. weapons across the nation’s border with Mexico, President Obama said in an interview that neither he nor Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the controversial “Operation Fast and Furious.”...Obama told Univision‘s Jorge Ramos that President Felipe Calderon wasn’t informed of the operation because he — the president of the United States — wasn’t informed either. When asked whether he knew of the weapon smuggling plan, Obama responded that it is “a pretty big government” with “a lot of moving parts.”
...President Obama said ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms enforcement) was behind "Operation Fast and Furious."
Item 2: According to documents obtained by the House Judiciary Committee, Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler was keenly aware of all aspects of Operation Fast and Furious as early as March 2010. In a letter to A.G. Holder, Chairman Issa wrote:
Gary Grindler, the then-Deputy Attorney General and currently your Chief of Staff, received an extremely detailed briefing on Operation Fast and Furious on March 12, 2010. In this briefing, Grindler learned such minutiae as the number of times that Uriel Patino, a straw purchaser on food stamps who ultimately acquired 720 firearms, went in to a cooperating gun store and the amount of guns that he had bought. When former Acting ATF Director Ken Melson, a career federal prosecutor, learned similar information, he became sick to his stomach...
Item 3: Newly released White House Visitor Logs list Grindler as having visited the White House 40 times, but only four times with the President himself. All four meetings with the President occurred over a two-week period, between 7 May 2010 and 19 May 2010.
According to The Los Angeles Times, these dates just so happened to represent the run-up to "the height of [Operation] Fast and Furious":
In the U.S., intelligence officials consider the Sinaloa cartel the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world. Weekly reports from U.S. intelligence authorities to the Justice Department in the summer of 2010, at the height of Fast and Furious, warned about the proliferation of guns reaching the Sinaloa cartel... Under Fast and Furious, begun in fall 2009, the ATF allowed illegal buyers to walk away with weapons in the hope that agents in Phoenix could track the guns and arrest cartel leaders.
Summary: In early 2010, Gary Grindler was intimately involved in all aspects of Operation Fast and Furious. During the height of the operation, Grindler visited the President on four separate occasions in only two weeks -- his only documented meetings with the president at the White House.
So my question is this:
What did President Obama know -- and when did he know it?
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.
The Anti-American Criminal Liar is again proven and exposed.
The Repub candidate has more material than he/she will ever need.
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*sniff* *sniff* hmm I smell cordite.....Might there be a smoking gun around here? ;-)
Meanwhile, the US Congress is deaf, blind, and obviously dumb. They’re all out searching for the gonads with both hands and a mirror and coming up empty with the exception of possibly two or three Republicans. Comments as to why the silence???
Bump.
because the only way to impeach a communist president with a communist senate is to have such an airtight case that to not impeach would be seen as treason.... this case is being built, all exits have been blocked, it is just a matter of time now... patience is needed here
I dearly hope you are right.
You don't mind if I ask... have you? :)
Well, well. This certainly seems to be the smoking gun to impeach Obama with.
The question, of course, is whether the MSM will notice any of this. They’ve pretty well ignored the whole thing, even with an active congressional investigation going on.
And, of course, whether the Republicans will do anything about it. Issa seems to be doing a good job with this, but will the Republicans keep moving it forward?
Impeaching a black President and his corrupt Attorney General wouldn’t be pleasant or easy, no doubt. But we’re talking about criminal complicity in deliberate murder, both here and in Mexico. Are they going to let the race card win again?
Bump.
As if we didn’t already know this, here it is all spelled out nice and pretty with the White House logs to back it up.
They are all too busy running their own scams and filling their own coffers. You know the old saying....people in glass houses...
I have been following this case since january, and have read every article on it, and have paid close attention to the actions of Issa and Grassley.... they have been slowly, methodically, and painstakingly building a case. They have been slow because they had to block all the exits... the exits have been blocked, there is no way out now for fubo or his henchmen... it is now just a matter of time to see who folds first... fubo has sent anyone with any info either out of the country or transfered them to different departments trying to drag it out, but once one domino falls, the rest will fall rather quickly... if I was a gambling man I would look for something around the first of the year.... this is just my opinion
I am crossing my fingers.
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Obama interview with CNN Espanol in March 22, 2011.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
There have been problems, you know. I heard on the news about this story that -- Fast and Furious, where allegedly guns were being run into Mexico, and ATF knew about it, but didn't apprehend those who had sent it.
Eric Holder has -- the attorney general has been very clear that he knew nothing about this. We had assigned an I.G., inspector general, to investigate it.--
The video clip seems to have been taken down.
From visitor logs:
Gary Grindler, the then-Deputy Attorney General and currently Holder's Chief of Staff, meetings with POTUS
-In early 2010, Gary Grindler was intimately involved in all aspects of Operation Fast and Furious. During the height of the operation, Grindler visited the President on four separate occasions in only two weeks --
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