Posted on 02/15/2012 5:56:42 AM PST by marktwain
Last week, Michel Marizco, writing for Fronteras, revealed what those of us who demand that the government be held accountable for its crimes have been saying all along. Operation Fast and Furious was not, contrary to what the administration and its apologists would like us to believe, a "rogue operation," conducted by an out-of-control Phoenix Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) field office, along with the U.S. Attorneys Office in Phoenix, without knowledge of those higher in the Department of Justice. It was instead a large, multi-agency operation--and indeed involved multiple cabinet-level departments. From the article:
Newly released documents show that allowing guns to walk into Mexico was widely known outside of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), the agency accused of allowing the weapons to head south across the border. And now a retired federal law enforcement official says some of those outside government agencies interfered with ATF’s plans by stopping some of the shipments.
The retired federal law enforcement official is Tony Coulson, who headed the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) office in Tucson through the height (or depth) of the Operation Fast and Furious gun trafficking atrocity. Not only did he and his DEA superiors know about the operation, so did Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)--which is part of not the Department of Justice, but of the Department of Homeland Security.
Attentive readers, by the way, might recognize the name of the Frontera article's author. Michel Marizco has been mentioned here more than once in the past, as the co-author, along with Colby Goodman, of a study cited by the Brady Campaign, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and others within the "gun control" community, as evidence that the commercial U.S. gun market is the Mexican drug cartels' most important source of firearms.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Gunwalker ping.
NO ONE WANTS TO IMPEACHE THE BLACK MAN, there I said it! That goes for the community organizer and chief. Why is it that he is getting away with destroying Amercia, they’re all afraid!
Black democrat politicians are not only entitled by the legacy of slavery to be corrupt in office, they are expected to.
Calling them on it is racist.
/(do I really need it?)
In medieval times, only the court jester was allowed to tell the truth in court without fear of reprisal. Like my jingle hat?
Yeah, but you misspelled it.
Wasn’t Breitbart saying in his CPAC speech, don’t be quiet anymore? Stop letting them get away with their speech and actions but to call them on it anywhere and everywhere? He got a great response.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
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Most of an alphabet of federal agencies knew about ‘Gunwalker’— Holder didn’t?
Article, then # 5 .
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Hands on his eyes, hands on his ears, hands on his mouth.
He's 0bama's Sgt. Schultz!
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