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BREAKING: CBS News obtains document linking asst. AG to ‘Gunrunner’
Seattle Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 4 May, 2011 | Dave Workman

Posted on 05/05/2011 5:45:24 AM PDT by marktwain

CBS News is reporting that documents obtained by Congressional investigators looking into the Project Gunrunner scandal include a wiretap authorization from Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer dated in March 2010.

Read the CBS story by investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson here.

Also included in documents released by investigators is a January 8, 2010 “briefing paper” on Project Gunrunner from the Phoenix, AZ field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The documents were released earlier today as the Senate Judiciary Committee convened for an oversight hearing on the Department of Justice.

One document indicates a Holder Asst. Attorney General, Lanny Breuer, authorized a wiretap in the controversial gun trafficking case headquartered in Phoenix. In that case, called "Fast and Furious," multiple sources say ATF allowed thousands of guns to hit the streets, destined for Mexican drug cartels.—CBS News

As reported by this column today, Attorney General Eric Holder professed considerable lack of knowledge about the Gunrunner operation, and its links to the slaying of Customs and Border Protection Agent Brian Terry last December. That prompted the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to call for Holder’s resignation.

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: absolootlie; ag; atf; banglist; breuer; coverup; cultureofcorruption; gunrunner; gunwalker; issa; lannybreuer; mexicogunwar; obamascandals
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Gunwalker is heating up. We need to keep the heat on our representatives to stoke the fire.
1 posted on 05/05/2011 5:45:28 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Has anyone said “WHY”??? - this was allowed to be done?


2 posted on 05/05/2011 5:48:23 AM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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To: marktwain

So the Asst. AG is going to fall on the sword for holder and barry.


3 posted on 05/05/2011 5:49:45 AM PDT by crosshairs (Say what you want about the South, but you never hear of anyone retiring and moving north.)
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To: The Bronze Titan

Fake, but accurate ping?


4 posted on 05/05/2011 5:50:48 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: marktwain

Gun walker is definitely heating up. It is now Gunrunner :)


5 posted on 05/05/2011 5:50:53 AM PDT by hflynn
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To: hflynn

If we speed up anymore on this it may become gunsprinter...


6 posted on 05/05/2011 5:52:46 AM PDT by zwerni (this isn't gonna be good for business)
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To: marktwain; STARWISE; LucyT; onyx; Liz; penelopesire; SE Mom; hoosiermama; mojitojoe; ...

Ping!


7 posted on 05/05/2011 5:53:40 AM PDT by maggief
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To: marktwain
AG: "Oh, Project Gunrunner. I thought you said something else."
8 posted on 05/05/2011 5:53:49 AM PDT by andyk (Wealth != Income)
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To: The Bronze Titan

Has anyone said “WHY”??? - this was allowed to be done?

THEY allowed it. They are the justice department. I think they were trying to stoke the notion that most of the guns used in mexican violence were coming from the U.S. Remember there were stories in the MSM about lack of gun control on the border. I think Holder just wanted to help things along, then it all went bad.


9 posted on 05/05/2011 5:55:16 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: hflynn

From Wiki

“ATF Project Gunrunner has a stated official objective to stop the sale and export of guns from the United States into Mexico in order to deny Mexican drug cartels the firearms considered “tools of the trade”.[16] However, since February 2008 under Project Gunrunner, Operations “Fast and Furious”, “Too Hot to Handle”, “Wide Receiver” and others (all together satirically dubbed “Operation Gunwalker”),


10 posted on 05/05/2011 5:56:14 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice.)
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To: crosshairs

One more issue that will never, ever be brought up at a ZERO news conference.


11 posted on 05/05/2011 5:56:33 AM PDT by Mr. Wright
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To: andyk

It’s both. From Wiki

ATF Project Gunrunner has a stated official objective to stop the sale and export of guns from the United States into Mexico in order to deny Mexican drug cartels the firearms considered “tools of the trade”.[16] However, since February 2008 under Project Gunrunner, Operations “Fast and Furious”, “Too Hot to Handle”, “Wide Receiver” and others (all together satirically dubbed “Operation Gunwalker”),


12 posted on 05/05/2011 5:57:15 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice.)
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To: crosshairs

Yep. They’ve got their fall guy. He’ll be forced to resign and live happily ever after.


13 posted on 05/05/2011 6:00:30 AM PDT by OKSooner (Obama confessed "his muslim faith" on the George Stephanopolous show on September 7th, 2008.)
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To: marktwain
Look for another

in the near future.

14 posted on 05/05/2011 6:01:51 AM PDT by McGruff (When it comes to Obama's birth certificate. Trust, but verify.)
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To: marktwain
Eric Holder professes ignorance about Lanny Breuer's involvement.

Yeah, right. Looks like they're joined at the hip in this photo.


15 posted on 05/05/2011 6:02:17 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: LynnaLai

Hey Newbie... here’s a story you may not have heard about.

I have read about this for months now.


16 posted on 05/05/2011 6:07:07 AM PDT by Mr. K (this administration is WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY~!! [Palin/Bachman 2012])
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To: marktwain; NFHale; sickoflibs

well, whoever, wherever in the world to get bombed/whacked better get their affairs in order...bambam and holder are gonna need a distraction, and quick...


17 posted on 05/05/2011 6:07:53 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: marstegreg
"..they were trying to stoke the notion that most of the guns used in mexican violence were coming from the U.S...."

So, let me get this straight - the ATF/Justice Dept allowed this to happen to make it look like the Mexicans were 'getting guns from inside the USA' and thereby 'make it look like we need "MORE GUN CONTROL" in the USA?? - do I have this warped rationale right?

18 posted on 05/05/2011 6:10:52 AM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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Yep. They’ve got their fall guy. He’ll be forced to resign and live happily ever after.

That may have happened in the old days. He won't be forced to quit. These guys don't care.

19 posted on 05/05/2011 6:10:58 AM PDT by Crawdad
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To: The Bronze Titan
>>Has anyone said “WHY”??? - this was allowed to be done?


Since when do organized criminal thugs need a "WHY"???

It's just bidness... just like the rape and pillage of our financial infrastructure ala the Useful Idiots who got in bed with them by signing the dotted line on their Liar Loans.

After all -

 "We're not predators. These people are uneducated, illiterate, and stupid.  They DESERVE to be taken advantage of."
--Application Support Manager, Argent Mortgage, May 2007

They Deserve to be taken advantage of - just like the dumba$$ consumers who facilitate the "MMJ" drug trade, right?

Gun, drugs, Liar Loans - it's ALL just bidness. 

"COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS DESPOTISM"
--Thomas Jefferson

Fogedaboudit.

/rant off.

 


20 posted on 05/05/2011 6:11:51 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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