Posted on 05/06/2011 3:47:50 PM PDT by neverdem
Edited on 05/06/2011 8:10:44 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Mexico last year has touched off a scandal that's now reverberating in Washington.
Members of Congress say that weapons found at the scene of Brian Terry's death have been traced to a federal program that allegedly allowed hundreds of guns to go from the U.S. across the border.
Investigators at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives called it Operation Fast and Furious, just like the blockbuster movie. Agents wanted to follow the flow of guns from the U.S. into the hands of deadly Mexican drug cartels. But the only thing that's coming fast and furious now are hostile questions from Congress.
Attorney General Eric Holder, who oversees the ATF, tried to explain what he knew about the episode at two hearings on Capitol Hill this week.
"You have to understand the way in which the department operates," Holder said. "Although there are [a lot of] operations, this one ... has gotten a great deal of publicity."
But Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) interrupted. "There are dead Americans as a result of this failed and reckless program, so I would say that it hasn't gotten enough attention," he said.
Issa, who leads the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is trying to uncover how the gun-running investigation went off the rails and whether top Justice Department leaders approved it in advance.
Following The Trail
To find out more, congressional investigators have traveled to Arizona, where people allegedly working with drug gangs illegally purchased more than 1,000 guns. Many of those guns were later found at crime scenes on both sides of the border.
Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley has been on the trail, too.
"At best, the ATF was careless in authorizing the sale of thousands of guns to straw purchasers," Grassley said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. "At worst, our own government knowingly participated in arming criminals, drug cartels and those who later killed federal agents."..........."
Hey, they just about threw the kitchen sink at it! (Libya-BC-OBL)
IT AINT GOING AWAY!
THIS DAWG IS GONNA BITE EM!
“...No. At worst, government officials conspired to fabricate Mexican crime scene evidence in order to politically justify unconstitutional infringements of the rights of US citizens...”
Right on the money, Beelz.
Now go back and start doing some time-line research via Internet, and start seeing how far back they started talking about “American Guns in Mexico”, and see WHO was putting out those talking points, and we’ll begin to see who all is/was involved in this conspiracy.
It’s about the Second Amendment, ultimately. EVERYTHING THEY DO IS GEARED TOWARDS ELIMINATING IT, in any way they can.
Nothing is coincidence with these socialist b*stards. It’s why they always seem to be one or two steps ahead of our side (that, and a lack of balls in the GOP to call them what they are and take active measures to defeat them).
Remember one thing - They CAN’T have their little Utopian Revolution as long as millions of Americans are armed and pissed off.
This has been in their game plan for a long while - they just got caught and exposed, before they could pull their trigger.
“C-4 explosives to middle east extremists”
Oh how I wish you were only joking. How long until the Lybian Rebels use some of our arms to shoot at our side?
NPR doesn't own any broadcast channels. Their outlets are all independent stations, most owned by colleges and universities, that pay NPR for their programming. And NPR itself receives very little money directly from the government. The money goes to those local stations, who then use it to pay NPR. So exactly what do you plan to have the government expropriate here?
A hemp necktie!
So now the gun-controllers of the ATF will try to take the guns away from everyone who DIDN’T commit this crime!
Pretty much the same deal. Most of them started as an offshoot of local boards of education and 1960s experiments in using televsion as an educational medium. Then, at some point, they were spun off into their own not-for-profit/foundation entities. Like the NPR stations, they pay the network for their programming, partly with federal grant money. In Los Angeles recently, the main PBS station decided it didn't want to pay anymore and dropped out of the system.
Wow, even National People’s Radio is coverintg it.
congress should defund everything at this point.
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