Posted on 07/10/2011 3:47:54 PM PDT by Starman417
Brit Hume was on Fox News Sunday this morning while the panel was discussing Operation Fast and Furious:
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Hume: This is a real scandal. And once again we have the classic question "what did the Attorney General, for example, know and when did he know it." This Obama Justice Department reminds me of nothing so much as the Nixon Justice Department. You have the scent of high level knowledge, of serious wrongdoing, and you have the smell of cover-up and I think the stench of cover-up on this gunrunning operation is very strong indeed.
How high this cover-up is going to go is anyone's guess but it could very well turn out to be much worse than the Nixon cover-up. His men stole papers while this operation cost us lives. This could turn out to be real ugly.
And once again we have the MSM covering for this administration simply by ignoring the story. Fox News is trying to do its part, and in this report they detail a bit about the latest blockbuster:
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More on Operation Castaway:
Virginia O’Brien, Special Agent in Charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Tampa Field Division, ran a gun-running investigation that was walking guns to Honduras using the techniques and tactics identical to Fast and Furious, it was reported to these correspondents this evening via private correspondence from a proven credible source.On 21 September, 2010, A. Brian Albritton, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida issued a press release on Operation Castaway:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Hume's right - it has the same 'feel' as the Nixon crooks.
Meh, it’s just FOX being FOX. Nothing to see here, move along. /s/
Hume’s right - it has the same ‘feel’ as the Nixon crooks.
It certainly does. 0bama makes Nixon look like a Boy Scout.
I think it ‘feels’ worse.
We aren’t all part of the DOJ’s ‘my people’ group..
I think it ‘feels’ worse.
We aren’t all part of the DOJ’s ‘my people’ group..
Exactly.
Let's hear him explain what was expected when a gun was allowed to cross the border and wasn't seen again until picked up at a crime scene. Just what conclusion can be drawn? Other than the fact that a gun smuggled into Mexico can end up in the hands of Mexican criminals, what information can be gathered or inferred?
The answer is: NONE, other than the fact that guns smuggled into Mexico can end up in the hands of criminals.
Now that the government, at the cost of at least two American lives, and perhaps a hundred Mexican lives, has discovered that guns smuggled into Mexico can end up in the hands of criminals, what can we do about?
The obvious answer is to make it more difficult for AMERICANS to keep and bear arms that might later be smuggled into Mexico. In the eyes of the BATFE and the Obama administration, I am sure that a "straw buyer" is simply a law-abiding citizen who purchases a firearm but who may or may not have smuggled it into Mexico but could smuggle it into Mexico at any time. That certainly should be a crime.
"Firearms like those involved in this investigation are often smuggled through Honduras and other Central and South American countries before being used in violent crimes in Mexico and other countries in the region."DOJ steered those guns to criminal gangs (MS-13) in Honduras, with the expectation that they would also windup in Mexico; that they would fuel Mexican violence - and that they could then use to justify their attacks on the 2nd Amendment.
Only worse.
The Nixon crooks were involved in campaign-related chicanery. Yes, it was illegal (and tacky), but it wasn’t a deliberate attack on our national sovereignty and the safety of American citizens.
Does anyone think Nixon or his officials or cronies wanted our enemies to defeat us and turn this country into a Mexico or Egypt with colder weather?
"...Mexican violence - and that they could then use to justify..."
This is much worse. With Nixon it was a political burglary of some Democrat campaign plans. With Obama it is a murderous scandal - literally. Obama’ stupid operation to make Ameican gun owners look bad was deadly to many innocents on both sides of the border.
How was Nixon’s DOJ worse than Kennedy’s or Johnson’s. Britt shouldn’t perpetuate the myth that Nixon was evil. He simply made the mistake of believing that Republican Presidents could do what Democrats had always done. Bill Clinton could commit serious felonies and it was ok. He is outthere now, and it is never mentioned. Imagine if a Republican had lied under oath, raped, and had his gorillas kill a family cat. Would Britt label him, too?
Obama’s Justice (if you can call it that) Dept. is far worse than Nixon’s.
Yes it is a crime, for private citizens. Law enforcement can receive, use, transport automatic weapons from and to anywhere they want, anytime. When you have several states on the same sheet of music here, the marching orders in perfect goose step are coming from pretty high up.
“An article published Friday, 8 July 2011, The Stimulation of Murder, by Investor's Business Daily, explained that A.G. Holder was, in spite of his denial, fully aware of the ATF’s gun-running to Mexico operations, to the point that it was fully disclosed in President Barack Obama’s Stimulus Bill.
‘Right there in the stimulus bill that no one in Congress bothered to read is $10 million for Project Gunrunner (aka Operation Fast and Furious), which resulted in the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and increased drug cartel violence”, the article stated.’”
There won’t be any Woodward and Bernsteins from the MSM on this story. Since Obama’s protected by them, they don’t think any wrong could have been committed.
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