Posted on 06/27/2012 3:05:14 PM PDT by xzins
Since our border with Mexico is uncontrolled, it is reasonable to conclude that we do not know how many other Americans have been murdered by firearms supplied via Fast & Furious in the United States.
One ATF whistleblower stated that when the news broke about the shooting of Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords, alarms went off at ATF headquarters over the chance the firearms was one of the Fast & Furious weapons.
I have no doubt this goes to the top. He and Holder are longtime associates, and even though they might have backchanneled and covered all their conversations, I’m certain that Obama would never have been out of the loop on something like this.
I have no doubt that this is part of a plan to attack the 2nd amendment rights of Americans.
However, are we going too quickly to one obvious possibility and ignoring another that we would be less quick to address?
What if Obama/Holder have some reason to favor/aid the drug cartels? What if power comes from the end of a gun, or what if money greases palms, or what if hundreds of medium transactions finance super-PACs, etc., etc.
Makes you wonder if part of the deal was to leave some of them at the scenes. Wouldn't that be an interesting e-mail for the regime to try to explain.
I agree, Erik.
I know that hundreds of those weapons are still not accounted for. There is no telling how much damage remains to be done by them.
If killing Mexicans is pro-Hispanic, then Hispanics should line up in droves to support gun-runner Barack Hussein Obama.
Excellent!
Bob Beckel, surprisingly, is correct. But, it doesn't excuse the Obama Administration and the DOJ from this heinous deed. They had no business playing this dangerous game with our southern neighbors. Personally, I hope Mexico charges Obama, Holder, and Clinton with crimes against humanity and demands their extradition.
Wow! Thanks.
“The Most Arrogant Man in the World”
Just got back from the health club, running on the treadmill, where I heard Beckel assert that Brian Terry would still be dead, the weapon would have been obtained elsewhere. This can not be the new talking point of the dems. I mean isn’t this an admission that gun regs. don’t work? P.S. I almost fell off the treadmill when I heard that statement.
“Mexican cartel are using machine guns, rocket launchers, and hand grenades. You don’t buy those at Walmart.”
One of the cartel kingpins that the Mexican feds caught claimed to have immunity from the US b/c of the State Depts involvement in arming them with anything & everything.
Hildahoof is done.
Its not impossible that its “all of the above”.
The point is, O and Holder had started a drumbeat before this all came out, encouraging the Government of Mexico to file suit in American courts against US gun manufacturers. I remember it, and I was expecting it any day when this story broke and they were forced to back off.
What they did instead, to distract attention from it, was start a big push for new reporting regulations, ignoring the fact that gun dealers had reported this.
As for your point, I’ve seen this before. There was a case a few years ago when a south american general was on trial in his home country for running cocaine into the US. His defense was that he was working with DEA and they had agreed to send a load through so they could follow it and see all the connections.
Sounds like a great idea. They went on to run another dozen loads. So at what point does an investigation become a cover for a smuggling operation.
Stories about Fast and Furious tend to overlook its twin operation running guns into Honduras. Supposedly they were selling them to MS13, which is bad enough, but I have wondered if they were arming Zelaya’s partisans. This all took place about the time they were trying to force him back into power.
And Obama is still counting on the hispanic vote...lol!
The SOBs did it for political gain.
Good work, Chaplain.
I didn't know about this. Do you have a link to a good, complete summary of the above? Thanks, marron.
Sorry, it was a Venezuelan general from back before Chavez if I remember correctly. So thats been a few years back now.
Thanks, Cyber.
I agree. Political gain.
The point, though, is that these “sting” operations are also ideal means of hiding graft/corruption.
Can you publish it....get it to go viral?
Fast & Furious — Obama Lied; Hispanics Died!
It’s so clear.
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