Posted on 06/28/2011 12:53:00 PM PDT by jmaroneps37
In April of 2009, Barack Obama named Kenneth Melson acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Today, this attorney and longtime bureaucrat possesses information which could bring down A.G. Eric Holder and perhaps Barack Obama himself.
As head of the ATF it was Melson who oversaw the Fast and Furious project, begun only a few months after his appointment and now responsible for the sale of more than 2000 weapons to straw purchasers for Mexican drug cartels.
He helped facilitate the "walking" of these guns across the Mexican border, instructing agents to not interfere with the process. He even watched closed circuit broadcasts of US border state gun dealers illegally transferring dozens of weapons to criminal buyers at the instruction of his agency.
After ATF agent and whistle blower John Dodson testified to members of Charles Grassley's Senate Judiciary Committee, Melson provided cover for his bosses at the Justice Department and the White House by saying nothing and providing nothing but denials in response to Grassley's demands for information.
But as the ATF's Project Gunrunner, or "Gunwalker" as it is more rightly called and its Phoenix, sister operation, Fast and Furious have become better known, dragging Eric Holder before Congressional Committees and forcing employees of his agency to explain their responsibility in the deaths of American agents, Ken Melson has become a liability to those who selected him and his days at the ATF appear numbered.
Nevertheless, there is more to the "Gunwalker" story and its continued cover up than apparent blind loyalty shown by a Regime subordinate to his bosses.
Around the time Ken Melson was made Acting ATF Director and just before thousands of guns began briskly "walking" to Mexico
Melson was named co-chair of the NEWLY CHARTERED...
Note to Melson: “Stay away from Fort Marcy Park”
Nevertheless, there is more to the “Gunwalker” story and its continued cover up than apparent blind loyalty shown by a Regime subordinate to his bosses.
Note: All of this does not matter. Why? How much time has the State-run, Lame-Stream media spent reporting this story.
Very little. As such, even if explosive information is released, State-run media will protect their boy and his minions from any damage; doing whatever is required.
State-rum media is lower than whale s - - t!!
Or Rock Creek Park, where guys like Vince Foster get lead poisoning.
Correct. Kenneth Melson could have a video of Holder and Obama loading the guns into a van then driving to Mexico. And the video could then show Obama handing out the guns while Holder took a suitcase of drugs as payment.
And the mainstream media wouldn't care one bit.
I think that Melson hasn’t resigned because he knows that there is evidence if Obama’s involvement and wants a deal before he leaves.
I believe it was an anti-gun PR scheme concocted with the aid of the Lib Media. To try and portray gun dealers as evil and start an outcry for gun control.
Until We do something about the media nothing will change. The only outlet we have is Fox & some days I wonder about them. I would cancel cable if my husband didn't insist on having the hunting, fishing, sports,..... Will a time come when only the crimes of the right are reported, or have we already come to that. I think if we could do something about the media, the left would be in big trouble. Every wonder why we pay cable/satellite channels to screw us over? When is some wealthy conservative going to start a cable company without the likes of abc,cbs,nbc,cnn.....?
What amazes me more than anything is the State-run, Lame Steam media supporting their boy on the Israel issue concerning Hussein Obama’s plan of reverting Israel to the 67 borders. When I saw that reporting occur and saw the media foaming at the mouth and having Chrissy “tingles in the legs”, I knew that all was lost with the U.S. media.
You are correct, someone needs to get the truth out - I too often cringe at some of the things I hear reported on FOX News.
Rock Creek Park was Chandra Levy, but stay away from there any way.
Sometimes I just like to sit back and watch how the media lightly reports things like “Gunwalker”, the Black Panthers and other Obamanations. Then compare them to The Valerie Plame case, the Clarence Thomas lynching and other completely manufactured Republican “scandals”.
And the mainstream media wouldn't care one bit.
Not true.
The media would present 0's effectiveness in stopping drugs from getting to the streets of the U.S.
It would tout 0's intervention in U.S. crime by getting guns off the streets.
And, of course, it would blame Bush for the drug problem anyway.
That’s right, Vince “I was bangin’ Hillary” Foster was capped in the back of the head near Spout Run in Arlington.
My grandparents (Mom’s side) lived about 10 minutes from DC off of Glebe Road and I spent a lot of my youth in Arlington.
Rock Creek Park is great to jog in.
Not quite true. If they start to smell fear in Obama and Holder, they will throw them under the bus, too. After all, the end game is to turn the US into a socialist country and NO ONE is going to get in their way.
I hope Melson sings like a Canary.
But...it's the kind of story that grabs more attention from casual observers than usual political stuff. My parents, here in AZ, perked right up and asked me about this story, even though it seems they never hear anything about the things we usually discuss here on FR.
"The feds are the ones selling high-powered rifles to the cartels?? WTF!"
Of course it was. This scheme and probably others is what Obastard meant when he was pursuing gun control “under the radar”.
Are we forgetting the hero in all this, Darrell Issa?
If they start to smell fear in Obama and Holder, they will throw them under the bus, too
I have to respectfully disagree - there is nothing and I mean nothing that these two could do to have the State-run, Lame-Stream Media turn on them. The media is totally in LOVE with these two bozos.
I guess we will have to disagree because I believe the media would shoot their own mothers to advance socialism. Obama is just a tool and tools can be discarded.
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