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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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To: marktwain

... and so the irresponsible on top surround themselves with conspiratorial irresponsible on the bottom, using gun owners as the bogey men... who woulda thought idiots to that to themselves, usefuly, for Manchurian plots.


21 posted on 05/05/2011 6:12:22 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrates Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Madame Dufarge

Ya, know. One of the things I immediately noticed upon visiting D.C. on 912 was how short the residents there generally are.

I thought they’d be taller.


22 posted on 05/05/2011 6:14:55 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: The Bronze Titan

Part of a MSM/Obama Propaganda anti-gun plan.


23 posted on 05/05/2011 6:17:47 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: maggief

whoa...


24 posted on 05/05/2011 6:19:25 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Gilbo_3

I cannot wait for (.)bama’s John Dean moment...there is a cancer on your presidency. Yeah, the possibility is right up there with my jumping up and landing on the moon.

Meanwhile, they are moving up the chain one link at a time. Holdless probably believes it ends with his deputy dropping on his sword. Hopefully the guy does not but the one thing with these leftist statist true believers is they take one for the team.


25 posted on 05/05/2011 6:21:33 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: The Bronze Titan

Yes, you got that right. Your common sense and sense of right and wrong were getting in the way of understanding these idiots.


26 posted on 05/05/2011 6:23:00 AM PDT by jdsteel (I like the way the words "Palin for President" make progressives apoplectic.)
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To: The Bronze Titan

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?

I don’t think it is so warped. who in their right mind would be tracking 1200 (thats right, 1200) guns? That doesn’t seem like overkill to you? How did they plan on tracking them? They didn’t. One of the big prizes for this admin has ALWAYS been gun control. Don’t you find it a bit strange that when the Admin was releasing stories about U.S. guns flowing into Mexico the DOJ was actually making it happen? There are no coincidences with this administration, you should know that by now. I think it is “warped ratioal” NOT to ask these questions. I may be proven wrong ( I hope I am), but I find this highly suspicious, as should you. Let me ask you a question, knowing what you know so far, do you trust Holder and his DOJ?


27 posted on 05/05/2011 6:24:23 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: maggief

Sounds like Bambi and Holder have found their fall guy. He doesn’t look too unhappy about it either.....probably getting some ‘Obama dollars’ and a french villa when this is all over.

Any other President, that had done as much unlawful acts as Obama has done since taking office, would have been impeached or forced to resign by now.


28 posted on 05/05/2011 6:26:26 AM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!
29 posted on 05/05/2011 6:28:02 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: marktwain
"Gunwalker is heating up. We need to keep the heat on our representatives to stoke the fire."

Sorry but we can't report on this right now. We are too busy running stories on the implications of Our Lord Obama not wanting to scare us with the Pictures of Osama with part of his head blown off...

However we will pick up the story and run an in depth investigation on the "GunWalker" story once we figure out how to blame it on the Republicans.

Yours Truly
The Lame Stream Media

30 posted on 05/05/2011 6:32:35 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: LomanBill
This might explain it:

"Lilliputians

The Lilliputians symbolize humankind’s wildly excessive pride in its own puny existence. Swift fully intends the irony of representing the tiniest race visited by Gulliver as by far the most vainglorious and smug, both collectively and individually. There is surely no character more odious in all of Gulliver’s travels than the noxious Skyresh. There is more backbiting and conspiracy in Lilliput than anywhere else, and more of the pettiness of small minds who imagine themselves to be grand."

Lilliputians

31 posted on 05/05/2011 6:33:29 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: The Bronze Titan

To answer the question “why?” is easy.

This is a political move that backfired. They wanted to further restrict the Rights of law abiding citizens. To what end is what we should be deeply concerned about.

Everyone involved in this conspiracy needs to go to jail for a long, long time. A lot of people have been killed in Mexico and the US with weapons that BATFE sent to the cartels. Something had BETTER be done about this and people had BETTER be punished for this. BATFE Legal Counsel has some serious questions to answer too.


32 posted on 05/05/2011 6:34:23 AM PDT by BCR #226 (02/07 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: marktwain

0bamamedia big, CBS, goes rogue?


33 posted on 05/05/2011 6:40:33 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Bad posters drive out good; don't post and drive!)
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To: marstegreg
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.

What Holder and Barry had in their gun sights was the Second Amendment.

34 posted on 05/05/2011 6:43:48 AM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, Iconoclast: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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To: The Bronze Titan
Yes.

"Never let a crisis go to waste." A corollary to that is apparently, "If you don't have a crisis handy, manufacture one."

Our entire Government is corrupt and needs a reboot.

35 posted on 05/05/2011 6:44:28 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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To: Mouton
as arrogant and undisciplined as the BATfags are/were with their comms, you can bet that holder and bambam are a bit nervous...

not that i think itll stick to the greasy bastards, but it could possibly cause them to flinch/blink long enuff to tip their hand a bit somewheres else, and give us a fightin chance...

36 posted on 05/05/2011 6:48:48 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: Dead Corpse

in the butt


37 posted on 05/05/2011 6:50:06 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and Ford trucks)
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To: Madame Dufarge
I think the poster is alluding to "Napoleon complex".

A peronality complex that consists of power trips and false machismo to make up for short height and feelings of inferiority.

38 posted on 05/05/2011 6:50:45 AM PDT by sjmjax (Politicans are like bananas - they start out green, turn yellow, then rot.)
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To: marktwain

I have to ask....Why See-B.S. of all places? Sounds to me like an internal Democrat Party takedown of Barry Obama is underway.


39 posted on 05/05/2011 6:52:23 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: kristinn; holdonnow; rush

ping


40 posted on 05/05/2011 6:54:08 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Pray. For all the latest, check out: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/)
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