KOMO’s Carlson turns up heat on ATF’s ‘Gunrunner’ scandal(WA)

Seattle Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 7 March, 2011 | Dave Workman

[marktwain]

Seattle radio talkmeister extraordinaire John Carlson started turning up the heat on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Project Gunrunner scandal Monday during the final hour of his morning broadcast, taking specific aim at major news organizations for not covering the story.

Carlson, perhaps the Jet City’s most recognizable conservative talk host and commentator currently on the air, and whose father was a police officer, is also questioning how it was that Border Patrol agents working with slain agent Brian Terry last Dec. 14 were armed with beanbag rounds when they confronted several suspects ten miles from Nogales near the Arizona-Mexico border.

This column was on the air with Carlson for about five minutes; long enough to note that CBS News’ Sharyl Atkisson has been hammering this story. However, Carlson is essentially correct by noting that most news agencies – the exceptions being the Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Fox News, Arizona Star and a relative handful of others (but not the Seattle Times or on-line Seattle P-I.com) – are largely absent. With the exception of Carlson and this column, Seattle news outlets have been silent.

That’s their mistake, because today, this scandal went international, and potentially nuclear in a political sense. Perhaps because KOMO is the ABC affiliate in Seattle, that network may now jump into the story. They have lots of catching up to do, not only with Atkisson, but with my colleague, David Codrea and independent blogger Mike Vanderboegh, who began digging up this story together about three months ago.

The Mexican government is now demanding information that had been deliberately kept from it about Project Gunrunner, particularly about the hundreds of contraband guns the ATF allegedly allowed to “walk” across the border as part of its investigation.

[marktwain]

I wonder what changed in Mexico? Calderon has been proping up president Obama on this until now. Internal Mexican politics?

[TigersEye]

Maybe he just doesn’t like being lied to by some jug-eared punk who can’t even prove he’s eligible to be the POTUS.

[bcsco]

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[joe fonebone]

"The Mexican government is now demanding information that had been deliberately kept from it about Project Gunrunner,"
Now fubo has also violated international treaties. Either he fires a whole bunch of people, or he is going down. This will make watergate look like the warm up band

[Venturer]

Maybe he is just trying to keep his own skirts clean and denying his own involvement.

[TigersEye]

Involvement of the President of Mexico in BATFE operations would certainly be interesting.

[The Theophilus]

Now fubo has also violated international treaties

Isn't his State Department that has been desperately pushing the UN Small Arms ban? To say their actions are "hypocritical" is a profound understatement.

I guess, it isn't a treaty violation when they do it. For us Lumpenprols we are threatened with prison times if we even dream of owning the weaponry that is being provided to the foreign drug cartels from our self-serving nomenklatura.

[Venturer]

Involvement of the President of the United States would be interesting also, but with our Media , and our Justice Dept.we will never find out about it

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks marktwain.