Skip to comments.
ATF gunwalking scandal: Second agent speaks out (Other Agencies knew about it!)
CBS ^
| March 21, 2011
| Sharyl Attkisson
Posted on 03/21/2011 3:54:11 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-73 next last
To: katana
41
posted on
03/21/2011 7:38:35 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: RetiredTexasVet
You forgot the storm troopers, AKA UNIONS.
42
posted on
03/21/2011 8:15:53 PM PDT
by
Marty62
(Marty60)
To: glock rocks
"I lean towards the other option, that they were trying to shut down legal sales by claiming the cabals were getting their weapons on the north side of the tracks."That's a given: if the ATF is involved, and it's a big splashy, headline-grabbing case, it's a given that the real intent is to demonize lawful gun owners.
43
posted on
03/21/2011 9:42:24 PM PDT
by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: ratsreek; Lurkina.n.Learnin
“When did all this start?” ===
Now there is a question posed that needs an answer.
44
posted on
03/21/2011 10:18:28 PM PDT
by
RitaOK
To: Red in Blue PA
Apparently, ATF hoped that letting weapons "walk" onto the street - to see where they'd end up - would help them take down a cartel. BULL CRAP!
They were manufacturing evidence to support the notion that US gun shows and gun stores are supplying the weapons used in Mexico.
This is pathetic spin.
45
posted on
03/21/2011 10:26:30 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: Red in Blue PA
Jamie Gorlick in reverse....
seems they assembled a team of rouge agents across numerous agencies...
see more of this coming under this czar 0bambi
46
posted on
03/22/2011 12:26:55 AM PDT
by
spokeshave
(Half-American, non natural-born, starts war without Congress OK, while on vacation in Brazil.)
To: Nachum
To: RetiredTexasVet
The ONLY reason I can see for not having closed the Southern border is that someone(s) highly placed have been consistently receiving payoffs from the drug trade and possibly the market in illegal labor.
Anything less would be simple treason, not just corruption.
48
posted on
03/22/2011 12:58:22 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: RetiredTexasVet
The federal government is completely out of control. Corrupt and bloated, they serve only themselves and their ranks, together a slightly westernized version of the Politburo.
I place 90% of the blame on the conniving shills for communism known as the Democrat Party and 10% on the candy-assed, limp-wristed, cowardly Republicans collapsing onto their fainting couches every time the rat mouthpiece media barks at them.
49
posted on
03/22/2011 1:04:42 AM PDT
by
ratsreek
To: Smokin' Joe
The ONLY reason I can see for not having closed the Southern border is that... ...it's 1,969 miles?
50
posted on
03/22/2011 2:11:56 AM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Obama: nobel peace prize winner, warmonger, golfer.)
To: glock rocks
I don’t just lean towards it; it is the only plausible reason to do what they did.
To: Red in Blue PA
You know, it’s almost like an open border is a bad thing.
52
posted on
03/22/2011 3:11:12 AM PDT
by
denydenydeny
(Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
To: Red in Blue PA
Of course other departments knew. The real question is whether they will testify under oath.
53
posted on
03/22/2011 4:31:10 AM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: an amused spectator
The government is criminals...
Yes it is, and amazingly, they are never held accountable for their actions.
And the people go along with this.
What would the Founders have said?
54
posted on
03/22/2011 4:34:02 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(For the first time in my adult life, I'm scared of my government.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Yes, it seems possible to trace any fired bullet to the firing arm by matching the marks on the bullet to a bullet fired by the arm. As you can imagine, it would be very difficult to perform the match if the arm is not readily available for testing and bullet comparison. In a criminal investigation, the arm and fired bullets are usually easy to connect but if there were hundreds of arms at the crime scene, it would not be so easy. Someone correct me if I am wrong—I am not an expert in crime forensics.
If I were trying to set up a tracing program to follow illegal arms to a crime organization, I would think that microstamping (or other marking of the arms) would be an important technique to use so that the bullets/cases could be easily identified to the firing arm.
55
posted on
03/22/2011 5:40:42 AM PDT
by
iacovatx
(If you must lie to recruit to your cause, you are fighting for the wrong side.)
To: ratsreek
When did all this start? Did it start under ocokesnorter?
"To help combat firearms trafficking into Mexico, ATF began Project Gunrunner as a pilot project in Laredo, Texas, in 2005 and expanded it as a national initiative in 2006. Project Gunrunner is also part of the Departments broader Southwest Border Initiative, which seeks to reduce cross-border drug and firearms trafficking and the high level of violence associated with these activities on both sides of the border."
From internal ATF documents found here: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/OIG_report.pdf
56
posted on
03/22/2011 5:42:07 AM PDT
by
Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
To: Red in Blue PA
Yep, there's are trustworthy government at their finest once again.
Runnin guns and letting American citizens take the rap.
To: newzjunkey
.it's 1,969 miles?You would think the might of the world's only superpower could build 400 yards of fence a day, on average. There has been plenty of time to secure the border since Reagan was president, and the problem has been known at least that long.
With rare exception in limited areas, the remediations have been tactical at best, and not strategic in nature nor scope.
58
posted on
03/22/2011 7:47:45 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
“We will probably hear it twas BUSHES FAULT.”
Don’t kid yourself, that’s the only reason CBS is running the stories. Somebody else mentioned above it started in 2008. There ya go. They think they have something they can stick to W, and take the focus off the loser currently occupying the castle, and guarantee his reelection,with a republican scandal.
At the same time the media will shape this into a “See this is why we need to be like England, and do away with all guns. Look at all the money we could save if all these agencies weren’t chasing these guns all the time.”
I may not be dead on with my reasoning, but you can believe there’s something Machiavellian about this.
59
posted on
03/22/2011 7:52:27 AM PDT
by
rikkir
(I had to show my BC to play Little League, he should have to show his to be President!)
To: Red in Blue PA
Indeed heads need to roll especially at justice where the U.S. Attorney’s office should have stopped this before it even got started.
This mess didn’t start in Tucson or Pheonix it started in Washington D.C. . To many people high up in Washington approved of the idea but gave detailed orders to subordinates to make it happen. That is what must not be ignored or forgotten.
60
posted on
03/22/2011 8:53:43 AM PDT
by
Nebr FAL owner
(.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-73 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson