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Obama talks "Fast and Furious" ATF scandal
CBS News ^ | June 29, 2011 | Sharyl Attkisson

Posted on 06/30/2011 11:09:53 AM PDT by neverdem

WASHINGTON - Today at his news conference, President Obama was asked about the unfolding gunwalker scandal, and whether ATF leadership will be replaced.

Mr. Obama answered, "My attorney general has made clear that he certainly would not have ordered gun running to be able to pass through into Mexico. ... I'm not going to comment on -- a on a current investigation. I've made very clear my views that that would not be an appropriate step by the ATF, and we've got to find out how that happened."

Project Gunrunner scandal uncovered at ATF

Mr. Obama added, "As soon as the investigation is completed, I think appropriate actions will be taken."

This week, the Senate confirmed three Obama-nominated Justice Department officials in a deal that will give Congressional investigators access to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms documents that have been withheld for months. The bigger part of the deal, however, is that ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson will provide a "transcribed interview" to Republican and Democratic investigators in mid-July.

Melson is the highest-ranking official involved in the so-called gunwalker scandal to agree to be interviewed. For more than a week, Melson has resisted calls to resign from Republican members of Congress and critics. That after testimony and documents revealed he was fully briefed and engaged in the controversial plan to allow thousands of assault rifles and other weapons to be sold to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels. Investigators have been trying to figure out who knew what, when at the Justice Department, which oversees ATF. They believe Melson may be able to provide some of that information.

Agent: I was ordered to let guns into Mexico

The president has said neither he nor Attorney General Eric Holder approved the operation known as "Fast and Furious." The Inspector General, the House Oversight Committee under Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are investigating.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Mexico
KEYWORDS: banglist; bhofascism; corruption; democrats; fastandfurious; govtabuse; gunwalker; obama; obamaongunwalker; thuginchief
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1 posted on 06/30/2011 11:09:55 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

A liar doing what he does best - lying.


2 posted on 06/30/2011 11:13:33 AM PDT by wastedyears (SEAL SIX makes me proud to have been playing SOCOM since 2003.)
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To: neverdem

It happened, Obummer, because you and “your” AG ordered it to happen. Thinking that you could use it to prove that American guns are falling into the hands of drug runners and cartels. And then you could use that to impose more gun control on the law abiding American citizens. You cooked it all up to get your way and it has come back to bite you on the ass.


3 posted on 06/30/2011 11:14:34 AM PDT by RickB444 (Worry about and distrust anyone who fears a lawful person owning a gun.)
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To: neverdem
"My attorney general has made clear that he certainly would not have ordered gun running to be able to pass through into Mexico,"

It's not even that he ordered it. It's that he let it happen, all the while 0 was blaming gun dealers for supplying Mexican drug lords.

4 posted on 06/30/2011 11:14:41 AM PDT by Tribune7 (We're flat broke, but he thinks these solar shingles and really fast trains will magically save us.)
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To: neverdem

“My Attorney General” as opposed to The Attorney General. Well, at least he claimed ownership.


5 posted on 06/30/2011 11:14:41 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (From her lips to the voters' ears: Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "We own the economy" June 15, 2011)
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To: neverdem

“The president has said neither he nor Attorney General Eric Holder approved the operation known as “Fast and Furious.””

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Based on the veracity and credibility of these two established lying thugs, would you bet your life on it?


6 posted on 06/30/2011 11:15:06 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: neverdem
And Melson will repeatedly answer that "I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation," to any relevant question posed by Congress. Plus, he has 2 weeks to prepare that answer, lol.

We need someone with courage at the DOJ to come forward with the truth. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Mrs. Prince of Space

7 posted on 06/30/2011 11:18:00 AM PDT by Prince of Space ("The problem with quotes on the internet is it's hard to verify their authenticity." Abe Lincoln)
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To: neverdem

So in order to get cooperation from ATF, the Republicans had to appoint certain folks to the justice department? Am I getting this right???? What in the name of all that is holy are the Republicans doing???? WTF, McConnell!!!!


8 posted on 06/30/2011 11:18:22 AM PDT by HOYA97 (twitter @hoya97)
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To: neverdem
All part of Barry's ‘under the radar’ gun grabbing scheme. Too bad for him that he's been caught. Let the festivities begin.
9 posted on 06/30/2011 11:20:56 AM PDT by JPG (Halperin in wishing Obama's first name was Richard...then he could always call him Dick.)
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To: neverdem

“The president has said neither he nor Attorney General Eric Holder approved the operation known as “Fast and Furious.”

Complete and utter bull crap! You both knew! This was one of the things you meant by your gun control “under the radar” comment made to the Brady people.


10 posted on 06/30/2011 11:22:09 AM PDT by Castigar
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To: RickB444
It happened, Obummer, because you and “your” AG ordered it to happen. Thinking that you could use it to prove that American guns are falling into the hands of drug runners and cartels.

Which was exactly what those two wanted (see tag line). It was a twofer, both arming criminals and "justifying" additional controls on long guns.

11 posted on 06/30/2011 11:26:54 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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To: neverdem

What did 0bama know and when did he know it?


12 posted on 06/30/2011 11:29:37 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
It's fun to watch Obama, lying sack of sh!t that he is, sing and dance about this. He's guilty as sin, and he knows if it wasn't for the leftmedia and his lackeys in Washington covering for his worthless carcass, he'd be swinging already.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

13 posted on 06/30/2011 11:36:22 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: neverdem

“No matter what, the buck stops, er ... other there ... umm ... somewhere.


14 posted on 06/30/2011 11:44:30 AM PDT by delacoert
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To: neverdem

“I’ve made very clear my views that that would not be an appropriate step by the ATF, and we’ve got to find out how that happened.”

So I guess that means Obama will order the ATF and the Justice Department to stop stonewalling Issa and deliver all the documents that the investigating committee requires, right?


15 posted on 06/30/2011 11:49:18 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: neverdem

We need a special investigator to look inot the Obama Administration’s inivolvement in this deal and their retaliation against a government employee who was the whistleblower.

THIS should be Obama’s Watergate.


16 posted on 06/30/2011 12:11:31 PM PDT by ZULU (Lindsey Graham is a nanometrical pustule of pusillanimous putrescence)
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To: neverdem

This is good.
Melson’s already said that he was acting on authorization.

Obama just said he and Holder did not authorize.

Someone must be lying. Hope Issa holds them to the fire.


17 posted on 06/30/2011 12:18:46 PM PDT by HEM
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To: ZULU

Ken Starr is probably available. He sure got that Clinton crime family.

I do not know what is sadder, the fact that lazy, ignorant Americans keep electing criminal marxists, or good Amercans naively keep thinking that congress will do something about it.

How many decades of presidential crimes and feckless congressional hearings will it take to wake this country up?


18 posted on 06/30/2011 12:24:20 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: neverdem
Mr. Obama added, "As soon as the investigation is completed, I think appropriate actions will be taken."

The followup question that wasn't asked... "When will you order your AG to stop obstructing the investigation?"

19 posted on 06/30/2011 12:27:23 PM PDT by TigersEye (Wranglers not Levis. Levi Strauss is anti-2nd Amendment.)
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To: MikeSteelBe

Well, so far we have had four of these losers in a row in office - that makes 32 years - no, wait, Bush I was there only one term and the Obamanation has only been in there one term, so 24 years.


20 posted on 06/30/2011 12:29:17 PM PDT by ZULU (Lindsey Graham is a nanometrical pustule of pusillanimous putrescence)
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