Posted on 05/05/2011 5:45:24 AM PDT by marktwain
CBS News is reporting that documents obtained by Congressional investigators looking into the Project Gunrunner scandal include a wiretap authorization from Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer dated in March 2010.
Read the CBS story by investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson here.
Also included in documents released by investigators is a January 8, 2010 “briefing paper” on Project Gunrunner from the Phoenix, AZ field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The documents were released earlier today as the Senate Judiciary Committee convened for an oversight hearing on the Department of Justice.
One document indicates a Holder Asst. Attorney General, Lanny Breuer, authorized a wiretap in the controversial gun trafficking case headquartered in Phoenix. In that case, called "Fast and Furious," multiple sources say ATF allowed thousands of guns to hit the streets, destined for Mexican drug cartels.—CBS News
As reported by this column today, Attorney General Eric Holder professed considerable lack of knowledge about the Gunrunner operation, and its links to the slaying of Customs and Border Protection Agent Brian Terry last December. That prompted the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to call for Holder’s resignation.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
... and so the irresponsible on top surround themselves with conspiratorial irresponsible on the bottom, using gun owners as the bogey men... who woulda thought idiots to that to themselves, usefuly, for Manchurian plots.
Ya, know. One of the things I immediately noticed upon visiting D.C. on 912 was how short the residents there generally are.
I thought they’d be taller.
Part of a MSM/Obama Propaganda anti-gun plan.
whoa...
I cannot wait for (.)bama’s John Dean moment...there is a cancer on your presidency. Yeah, the possibility is right up there with my jumping up and landing on the moon.
Meanwhile, they are moving up the chain one link at a time. Holdless probably believes it ends with his deputy dropping on his sword. Hopefully the guy does not but the one thing with these leftist statist true believers is they take one for the team.
Yes, you got that right. Your common sense and sense of right and wrong were getting in the way of understanding these idiots.
So, let me get this straight - the ATF/Justice Dept allowed this to happen to make it look like the Mexicans were ‘getting guns from inside the USA’ and thereby ‘make it look like we need “MORE GUN CONTROL” in the USA?? - do I have this warped rationale right?
I don’t think it is so warped. who in their right mind would be tracking 1200 (thats right, 1200) guns? That doesn’t seem like overkill to you? How did they plan on tracking them? They didn’t. One of the big prizes for this admin has ALWAYS been gun control. Don’t you find it a bit strange that when the Admin was releasing stories about U.S. guns flowing into Mexico the DOJ was actually making it happen? There are no coincidences with this administration, you should know that by now. I think it is “warped ratioal” NOT to ask these questions. I may be proven wrong ( I hope I am), but I find this highly suspicious, as should you. Let me ask you a question, knowing what you know so far, do you trust Holder and his DOJ?
Sounds like Bambi and Holder have found their fall guy. He doesn’t look too unhappy about it either.....probably getting some ‘Obama dollars’ and a french villa when this is all over.
Any other President, that had done as much unlawful acts as Obama has done since taking office, would have been impeached or forced to resign by now.
Sorry but we can't report on this right now. We are too busy running stories on the implications of Our Lord Obama not wanting to scare us with the Pictures of Osama with part of his head blown off...
However we will pick up the story and run an in depth investigation on the "GunWalker" story once we figure out how to blame it on the Republicans.
Yours Truly
The Lame Stream Media
"Lilliputians
The Lilliputians symbolize humankind’s wildly excessive pride in its own puny existence. Swift fully intends the irony of representing the tiniest race visited by Gulliver as by far the most vainglorious and smug, both collectively and individually. There is surely no character more odious in all of Gulliver’s travels than the noxious Skyresh. There is more backbiting and conspiracy in Lilliput than anywhere else, and more of the pettiness of small minds who imagine themselves to be grand."
To answer the question “why?” is easy.
This is a political move that backfired. They wanted to further restrict the Rights of law abiding citizens. To what end is what we should be deeply concerned about.
Everyone involved in this conspiracy needs to go to jail for a long, long time. A lot of people have been killed in Mexico and the US with weapons that BATFE sent to the cartels. Something had BETTER be done about this and people had BETTER be punished for this. BATFE Legal Counsel has some serious questions to answer too.
0bamamedia big, CBS, goes rogue?
What Holder and Barry had in their gun sights was the Second Amendment.
"Never let a crisis go to waste." A corollary to that is apparently, "If you don't have a crisis handy, manufacture one."
Our entire Government is corrupt and needs a reboot.
not that i think itll stick to the greasy bastards, but it could possibly cause them to flinch/blink long enuff to tip their hand a bit somewheres else, and give us a fightin chance...
in the butt
A peronality complex that consists of power trips and false machismo to make up for short height and feelings of inferiority.
I have to ask....Why See-B.S. of all places? Sounds to me like an internal Democrat Party takedown of Barry Obama is underway.
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