Posted on 04/02/2011 4:46:11 AM PDT by IbJensen
Buried in Barack Obama's failed trillion-dollar stimulus program was a $10 million bloody border racket that has now cost American lives. This goes far beyond the usual waste, fraud and abuse underwritten by progressive profligacy. It's bloodstained government malfeasance overseen by anti-gun ideologues -- and now anti-gun ideologue Attorney General Eric Holder will "investigate."
Welcome to Project Gunrunner. Prepare for another Justice Department whitewash.
First, some background. Like so many border programs run amok, Project Gunrunner was the spawn of Beltway bipartisanship. It was established in 2005 as a pilot project under the Bush administration and run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The intended goal of the program's sting operations: stop illicit firearms trafficking along the Southwest border through close surveillance of undercover gun purchases and coordinated intervention with Mexico. The deadly result: federally sanctioned gunwalking of high-powered weapons from U.S. officials right into the hands of drug cartel killers.
By 2008, Project Gunrunner's bureaucratic fiefdom had expanded rapidly along the U.S.-Mexico border and into the nine U.S. consulates in Mexico. The office raked in $2 million more through the little-scrutinized Merida Initiative, which Hispanic vote-pandering Republicans rammed through in a war supplemental bill. Despite warnings from the DOJ inspector general that tracking and assessment measures needed improvement, the payroll exploded from a few dozen to more than 200 by 2009. Under the Obama administration, ATF reaped another $21.9 million to expand Project Gunrunner (nearly half from the stimulus boondoggle), and the White House has requested almost $12 million more in fiscal year 2011 appropriations for the program.
Project Gunrunner's reach and authority continues to grow despite dire, prolonged warnings from insiders and whistleblowers that countless monitored guns have been passed on to violent criminals without being intercepted as planned. Following up on leads first published at www.cleanupatf.org and the blogs of gun rights advocates David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh, CBS News reported last month that Project Gunrunner "allegedly facilitated the delivery of thousands of guns into criminal hands."
One of those guns was used by Mexican gang thugs who murdered U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last December. At least six veteran ATF agents and executives stepped forward to expose how ATF presided over the purchase of hundreds of high-powered rifles and pistols -- over the objection of the very private gun shops that the Obama administration's anti-gun zealots have vilified.
The madman refuses to protect our borders against all sorts of invasions while going to Libya for revenge for the trick Kadafi played with the Lockerie bomber, or some other such nonsense that is totally undiscernable. Hell he even helps our declared enemy in the process.
Will anyone ever wake up and bring charges against this idiot for crimes against humanity? Congress is there any among you that has the gonads to tell the truth about this man? We know there is not one among the so-called mainstream media that has not sold out and become a member of the regime propaganda machine.
The madman wishes sucess for illegals which is the same as encouraging the invasion of our nation while sending our military forces to support an al Queda led insurection half a world away, illegally and an impeachable offense even according to his own corrupted VP! And it gets deeper on a daily basis. Not God bless America, blasphemy from the usurpers mouth, but God help America!
Eric Holder’s Justice Depoartment will investigate this and ind themselves not guilty. Just as they found themselves not guilty in the case of the Black Panthers.
Next time I get a traffic ticket I want to be my own judge and find myself not guilty.
Echoes of “mistakes were made” from the Nixonian decline and fall. Next up...”what did they know and when did they know it?” The CBS interviews are the latest in a long list of stories about this travesty that show it has legs. Obama is now on tape claiming neither he nor Holder knew anything about the operation. Perfect.
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