Posted on 09/27/2011 4:35:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
Scandal: New documents reveal the Department of Justice lied to Congress and show how U.S. officials bought guns with tax dollars and then made sure no one stopped their transfer to Mexican drug cartels.
The funneling of thousands of American guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels in the operation known as Fast and Furious was not a botched sting operation or the result of bureaucratic incompetence. It was not designed to interdict gun trafficking, but to facilitate it.
We now know that it involved not just the use of straw buyers, but also agents of the federal government purchasing weapons with taxpayer money, ordering the licensed dealers to conduct the sales off the books, then calling off surveillance of the gun traffickers and refusing to interdict the transfer of the weapon or arrest the people involved.
According to documents obtained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), agent John Dodson was ordered to buy semiautomatic Draco pistols and was provided a letter by ATF group supervisor David Voth authorizing FFLs (federal firearms licensees) to sell Dodson the guns without filling out the required form.
A copy of the letter obtained by David Codrea of the Gun Rights Examiner tells dealers to "accept this letter in lieu of completing an ATF Form 4473 for the purchase of four (4) CAI, Model Draco, 7.62X39 mm pistols, by Special Agent John Dodson" to be used "in the furtherance of the performance of his official duties."
Scribbled on the letter is this note: "Picked up guns 6/10/10. Paid cash."
According to Fox News, Dodson then sold the guns to known illegal buyers who took them to a stash house. Voth disapproved Dodson's request for 24-hour surveillance and ordered the surveillance team to return to the office.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
We will soon find out if Voth is willing to go to prison for Holder.
Video: William Lajeunesse, Fox News:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1185326377001/taxpayer-money-used-to-sell-weapons-to-cartels
Taxpayer Money Used to Sell Weapons to Cartels
Sep 27, 2011
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America’s Third War: New documents on ‘Fast and Furious’
Liars and Buyers, OH MY !!
This - as documented by the accompanying authorization letter - pretty well (as others have remarked ) “drives a stake into the heart of the Administration’s testimony OFF was a “rogue operation” ! Add to it Phoenix SAC Newell’s recent letter “splaining” his recalcitrant testimony before Issa’s HCOGR and the sudden “re-assignment” of White House NSC advisor Kevin O’Reilly to Iraq after a joint letter requesting his presence at a joint committee hearing sometime in September was received at the White House.
I seriously hope not only Mr. Issa’s committee, but the Senate Judiciary Committee press hell out of the administration on this issue. And all of us ought to be pressuring our Congresscritters for an independent Special Prosecutor to investigate all of this scandal- no matter where it leads ! >PS
My head is exploding. Please tell me why this is not more serious than anything that happened at Watergate? Please tell me why the American public (or at least the Republican Party) isn’t calling for Holder’s head?
How can this be anything but an illegal activity by our government?
All you have to remember is that no one died in Watergate
Why is this not more serious than Watergate?
Don’t you know? Republicans are evil and Democrats are the bringers of light and truth.
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