Posted on 11/23/2011 5:46:57 AM PST by marktwain
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) has penned a whitewash of Operation Fast and Furious in the New York Daily News that is yet another attempt to obfuscate and divert public attention away from a deadly Obama administration scandal, and fix blame on Republicans and the nation’s allegedly weak gun laws.
As Fox News reported Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder, whose Justice Department has been stonewalling the parallel investigations by Senator Charles Grassley and Congressman Darrell Issa, has also done his share of buck passing lately, and hiding behind an Inspector General’s investigation of the scandal.
Here’s what Maloney asserted:
But this initiative, which was identical to one launched under the Bush administration, spiraled out of control, with ATF agents losing track of the guns as soon as they crossed the border.
In Wide Receiver, Mexican authorities were alerted to gun trafficking suspects. A few hundred guns were involved. Nobody was killed. In Fast and Furious, Mexican authorities, and our own Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents stationed in Mexico City were deliberately kept in the dark. A couple of thousand guns were involved. A Border Patrol agent and untold numbers of Mexican citizens are dead.
The most “identical” thing about both cases is that they unfolded under the command of the same fellow, former ATF Phoenix Special Agent in Charge William Newell, as this column recalled. An extensive story in Business Week raises serious questions about Wide Receiver and the practice of gun walking.
Newell’s name came up during the Fox News report, and it wasn’t good. He is alleged to have intentionally obstructed an investigation into the arson at the home of ATF agent Jay Dobyns while his family was inside. Dobyns was exonerated by that investigation.
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Fast and Furios was a criminal enterprise that has armed the enemies of this nation and it was done in an attempt to undermine the 2nd amendment of the constitution. Holder and those involved in creating, carrying out, nad attempting to hide and cover up this operation all need to be doing serious time in prison.
Hopefully Americans are getting tired of being lied to.
Exactly, but also, when it became obvious that the Mexican officials were not doing their part to intercept the smugglers and were allowing the weapons into the hands of the drug cartels, Wide Receiver was shut down.
Joe Wilson was right.
If our fellow Citizens can't figure it out after this then they never will.
Nah, seriously though, the guy didn't lie about putting his laser on jobs.
My apologies for going off topic.
“allegedly weak gun laws.”
America has the harshest gun control laws in the world. A country with a right to bear arms. Should have no gun control laws. Criminals do not obey gun control laws.
Blatantly false! Four ATF agents were deposed by Issa's House subcommittee and all four say they never heard of letting guns intentionally "walk" before Fast & Furious.
The Department of Justice’s Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents
The author of this propaganda, Carolyn Maloney, is a lying whore!
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