Posted on 08/24/2011 2:08:06 PM PDT by neverdem
It’s well past time the American public receive clear answers on Operation Fast and Furious.
At this juncture, after months of a congressional investigation, it appears Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice are committed to hoping an extended silence will allow the entire scandal to simply go away.
Each time law enforcement officials recover another of the thousands of guns that were allowed to be transported to members of Mexican drug cartels, the failure of this operation is again brought to light.
Fast and Furious, which was the Arizona version of a similar investigation called Gunrunner in Texas, was conceived and approved somewhere by someone around October 2009, and was tasked to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The goal was to allow “straw man” gun purchases in the U.S. and track the high-powered weapons to their expected destination, Mexico’s violent drug cartels.
What has happened is nothing short of a national disgrace.
Someone at the federal level, we still have no specific information on whom or which agency, allowed these investigations to proceed without intervening before the weapons left the United States.
What has resulted is the death of two federal agents, shot with guns traced back to these investigations, and the suspected murder of hundreds of Mexicans caught in the middle of the violent drug wars.
Even as Justice Department officials have stalled and stonewalled, what new details have emerged are alarming.
Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas has been a leader in demanding information on this fiasco, as he should on behalf of his border-state constituents. Yes, it’s possible he sees partisan advantage in going after a Democratic administration, but it doesn’t make him wrong.
Until we get the extent of this failure, and find who is accountable, the investigation should continue with urgency.
All the pubbies in Congress should be backing up Issa and Grassley with similar pressers about Fast and Furious, Operation Castaway, etc. They need to be as loud as Schumer is about the left's sacred cows, just not as obnoxious as Chuck U.
P.S. The word now is that they got lateral transfers to D.C., not promotions.
Issa is doing a great job of lining up all the ducks on this so that it plays out a lot closer to the election. Watching Holder, the DOJ, ICE and Obambi all get this tied around their proverbial necks as election season is underway is perfect. I actually think Grassley and Issa are doing this perfect.
“Until we get the extent of this failure, and find who is accountable, the investigation should continue with urgency.”
Good luck with this one. They will hide it until the cows come home. The Freedom of Information Act should come into play here. It’s not a secret that it happened.
This is a legal issue, not a political one, but I am afraid they are treating it as politics as usual. Doesn’t give me much faith in our government. /s
Anytime you involve the Attorney General and likely the President you have politics. The politics and legal issues are completely tied together in a case like this.
If the ultimate goal was you or I then it would be nothing but a legal matter.
There’s more at stake here; what happened was exactly an act of war against another country [Mexico].
If federal agencies can do so, then there is nothing keeping any agency from instigating a war with any Country and committing ALL the States thereunto.
bflr
We know this much, there was knowledge of the operation at some level that was able to coordinate efforts by the FBI to use informants (of the DEA?) to spend US Taxpayer dollars to buy weapons to transport into Mexico under the protection of the ATF. There is only one office that can coordinate all that and apparently Issa has emails obtained by subpoena that reference the motivation was to (as Erkel told the Brady Bunch) “do something behind the scenes” to advance the libtard gun control agenda.
This is what we KNOW. What more needs to be discovered?
I agree.
The article says:
“Until we get the extent of this failure, and find who is accountable, the investigation should continue with urgency.”
I disagree .. I think a slow steady build of pressure should be kept on .. and allowed to BLOW up about September 2012
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