Posted on 09/11/2012 12:51:05 PM PDT by Jean S
Dozens of senior-level U.S. government officials turned a blind eye to public safety as they pursued an ill-conceived and poorly managed investigation into gun trafficking in Mexico, according to a long-awaited inspector general's report on Operation Fast and Furious.
Portions of the Justice Department IG report, which has not been made public, were obtained exclusively by Fox News Channel.
The report and accompanying accounts cite a failure in leadership and a lack of accountability and oversight up and down the chain of command at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Justice Department itself and other offices. It says many senior executives knew the U.S. was helping traffic guns to Mexico that killed people but did nothing to stop it.
"We found no evidence in Operation Fast and Furious that the ATF or the (U.S. attorney's office) attempted at any point during the investigation to balance the risks to the public safety against the long-term benefits of identifying trafficking networks and participants," the draft report says.
Fast and Furious was the anti-gunrunning sting that helped send some 2,000 assault weapons to Mexico under the guise of stopping illegal trafficking. The operation ended only after the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry -- two of the weapons associated with the investigation were found at his murder scene.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Lets see, it’s Tuesday.....
Fast and Furious docs come out, US embassy in previously friendly Islamic country stormed....
BUH BYE convention “bounce”.
Let’s not forget Obama telling Netanyahu to go shove it..yeah let’s see how long that Bogus Convention “bounce” lasts
Revoke ATF charter! 250 poor innocent Mexicans, 2 US cops dead.
Handiwork of the CHOOM GANG bisexual Muslim...!
I’m not holding my breath waiting for something to happen to obammy and rahm. I’d dare say that 95% of the voting public has never heard of fast and furious, and certainly don’t know that obammy dissed netanyahy............
Sounds more like a convenience store than a government agency.
I was not the first to say this, but I do not know to whom I should attribute it.
Okay. Fine, but who signed off, who authorized the operation?
The Murrah building contained a day-care center:
Did ATF’s pattern of reckless cowboying kill innocent kids..?
Did US agents CAUSE OkBomb....?
While the report blames Newell and Voth for poor judgment, attorneys for the two say higher-ups and the ENTIRE ATF chain of command were aware of everything they did.
Kind of answers your question....
Cause I LOVE alcohol, tobacco and firearms.
When should I tune in and on what network news show will Attorney General Eric Holder’s perp walk/frog march be shown? I’m just giddy with excitement and anticipation for the moment...
Ohh, don’t hold my breath you say...I shouldn’t hold supper just so I don’t miss it on the evening news????
Damn...build me up just to let me down...
Any time a firearms-related thread is created on FreeRepublic, please be sure to add the "banglist" keyword to it so that interested FReepers don't miss it. Just a suggestion.
Let Freedom Ring,
DHS’s 1.4 BBBillion new rounds would have supplied US forces in Iraq at the height of the fighting for EIGHTEEN YEARS.
They bought them in a budget crunch, “just CUZ”....?
Pass it around.
Ping!
This is the DOJ internal investigation, isn’t it? I’ll be pretty surprised if the place any blame on high ranking Administration officials.
The Congressional investigation is the one which could nail Holder & Co., but DOJ has stonewalled that effort from the beginning, partially on the premise that this internal investigation takes precedence.
Expect low levels to take the fall in this report. Holder and Obama will be immune.
F&F was an operation to pad the statistics for the ATF (DoJ) claim of a "river of iron" flowing to Mexico!!!
It’s a risimg tide that threatens us all. obama is a trapped rat now. A cornered animal who will do as much damage to this country as he can. Scorched earth. Ping.
Executive Privilege.
Michigan Bowhunter said it back in March of ‘09; but I’m sure it can be attributed to a southern comedian the likes of Foxworthy, Envall, or Grizzard prior to that.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Excuse me, that was an “...iron river of guns”, not a “river of iron” that the ATF claimed in March 2009. This was only days before Hillary made her claim.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-03-18-cartelguns_N.htm
Make that Engvall. Durned fingers...
“Sounds more like a convenience store than a government agency.”
There used to be a little store outside Sandusky called “Ice Cream And Guns.”
“Sounds more like a convenience store than a government agency.”
I wonder if any of the stuff Fox got was going to be, or already is, redacted from the official report?
IIRC, that ATF news release linked in post#24 was the start of the 90% Myth.
Maybe one of the scapegoats will rat on the big boys. The Fast and Furious plan DID NOT come from mid level agents.
No, more than two were found...
FBI Criminal Informant Complicit in Brian Terry’s Death (PJM Exclusive)The rip crew was in Peck Canyon that evening with the intention of stealing money and drugs from a specific shipment of which they had prior knowledge.
(snip)
The rip crew knew to be in Peck Canyon that December evening because a CI working for the FBI found out about a smuggling run — from the FBI.
(snip)
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) — through its own CIs and communications intercepts — was also aware of the planned assault.
Neither the DEA nor FBI warned Border Patrol about the expected criminal activity.
(snip)
The federal government will still not reveal if one of the two WASR-10 AK-pattern semi-automatic rifles located near the scene — provided to the Sinaloa cartel via Operation Fast and Furious — was the weapon that put a bullet through Brian Terry’s heart. The existence of a third recovered gun, an SKS carbine, has been disputed by the FBI despite the fact it had been talked about openly in the beginning of the investigation among federal agents.
Multiple sources tell PJM that this third weapon “disappeared” because it was the weapon carried by the FBI CI who ran the rip crew. When it was recovered near the scene of the murder and subsequently traced by the ATF, it traced back to the FBI CI via the gun shop in Texas where it was purchased.
Brian Terry’s murder was entirely preventable. The incompetence of the DEA and FBI let his Border Patrol unit walk into an ambush. After the ambush, it appears the FBI tampered with evidence to cover up that one of their informants was involved with the murder of a federal agent.
Translation: We're so Anti-Gun, we don't care if our Operations kill Americans.
 I voted for Obama in Maryland! |
I voted for Obama in Florida! |
I voted for Obama in the other 55 states! |
Newt for Attorney General!
They were just carrying out Obama’s orders to get gun control enacted “under the radar”.
No matter WHAT state she is in....
“Let’s not forget Obama telling Netanyahu to go shove it.”
So now tell me, when are the Jews going to switch to Romney? Like never! Most of them don’t even like Israel. Go figure! Where are the Rabbi’s for Romney?
I was not the first to say this, but I do not know to whom I should attribute it.
Related:
In the movie Deja Vu, Denzel Washington plays an AFT agent investigating the bombing of a ferry in New Orleans. He is interviewing the bad guy, James Caviezel, and identifies himself as being with the ATF. Caviezel says, "A man can always use more alcohol, firearms and tobacco." Denzel replies, "I can think of one more thing." Great lines!
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It is very simple to vote in dozens of states
Register to vote by mail
Vote using an absentee ballot
In my state if you register in person - they demand valid ID
If you register and vote by mail
(Motor Votor included)
No ID is involved
Illegal aliens use counsins and uncles names - they also swap their first name and their surnames
Drug dealers get multiple IDs and Driver’s Licenses that way
If caught by LEOs - they relocate and use their next alias
It also is used to get huge multiple Earned Income Credits and huge income tax refunds and Food Stamps and subsidized housing - which they often sublet for cash
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If we had an honest government, public officials would be held accountable in the same way that private citizens would be had they committed the very same acts.
Hearings will be held. Reports will be written. And that will be the end of that.
Whenever the feds want a dirty job done, they call in the ATF.
The ATF is the federal goon squad which is why they have never been held accountable and why they never will.
Lack the evidence-tampering and covering up at Waco?
We need to simplify and go to the "purple finger" method.
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If a 3-0 steel-clad door can “disappear” from evidence, and all record of it, why not an SKS? I think David Copperfield is on retainer at the FBI.
BUH BYE convention “bounce”.
What bounce? It was a contrived bounce!!!!
More smoke and mirrors though!
Fast and Furious was about gun control... Excuse to blame gun owners and shop owners!!!
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Yup!
I told “my plan” to a liberal relative
- Vote fraud - lose one (1) finger for each incident - four states (4) fingers
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Setting up voter fraud:
Lose your life immediately
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Radical liberals/Progressives do not believe in the US Constitution - in the “Rule of Law” - unless they can use it in their favor to gain an illegal and/or unethical agenda or “ends”
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She went nuts and said:
“You cannot do that!”
That told me she and/or her husband had been involved in multiple voting fraud in an election or in multiple elections in at least four (4) states.
More likely at least seven (7) states -
Many vote multiple times in each state
In 2000 - college students openly bragged of voting over 100 times
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The next time Obama puts that “finger” up.....
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TITLE 18 – CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I – CRIMES
CHAPTER 96 – RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS
Most Jews are liberal, THAT is the problem, their religion is liberalism. They dont give a rats behind about Israel. In 2008 I asked my liberal cousin “How can you vote for Obama, he doesn’t care about Israel” his response “Israel is not my problem.” Maybe now he thinks differently after visiting Israel but I haven’t discussed it with him, that is the mentality of many Jews, they dont go there so they dont feel like they have a connection with the country. If they actually visited Israel and see what a beautiful country it is maybe their mentality would change. Orthodox Jews vote Republican, the rest of them vote Democrat
Your correct in that it won’t sway Democrats in the least. But I do believe that a number of independents will take notice, and this is exactly what we need.
"You can delegate responsibility; you can not delegate accountability."
You are directly responsible for teaching and training those you manage in the performance of their duties, which makes you directly accountable for their failures. Newell, Voth, and MacAllister could not have run the operations without direct assistance of the management in the DC offices of Justice, the FBI, and ATF. The fault ties directly to Holder.
Hussein/Holder have been doing just that for over two years. If nothing erupts by the time of the election, Romney and Boehner will let it slip down the memory hole.
Federal agents can’t wipe the a**es without permission. Their warrants are drafted by Asst. US Atty’s. They then have to submit very detailed operational plans which go all the way to DC, so that they can be analyzed and modified, so as to shield the agency as much as possible.
This is why there are so many ‘Task Forces’ with local law enforcement. Federal agents are very restricted in what they can do. Local law enforcement is not.
So to say that this whole thing was the brainchild of some local supervisors and then ran by those same supervisors is absolutely ridiculous.
Hopefully, one(or more) of those about to be thrown under the bus, was smart enough to keep some emails and has already hired a good attorney to go see Issa and Grassley in the near future.
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