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BREAKING: F&F firestorm: Mexican officials want to prosecute U.S. officials
Seattle Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 5 July, 2011 | Dave Workman

Posted on 07/06/2011 4:50:13 AM PDT by marktwain

Fox News is reporting today that some officials in Mexico would like to extradite and prosecute U.S. officials responsible for Operation Fast and Furious because it flooded their country with guns illegally, resulting in the deaths of possibly hundreds of Mexican citizens.

Not like anything of the sort will happen, but it underscores the serious nature of anger south of the border, where those government officials feel betrayed by the United States. There is no small irony today in the fact that President Obama is trying to intercede in Thursday's scheduled execution of a Mexican citizen who was convicted of the 1994 rape and murder of a 16-year-old San Antonio girl. My colleague, David Codrea, writes about it here.

President Barack Obama is attempting to block the execution in Texas on Thursday of a Mexican man because it would breach an international convention and do "irreparable harm" to US interests.—The Guardian

And now that the Casey Anthony case has been decided, perhaps more attention will be paid to the gunrunning controversy.

Incredibly, according to The Hill newspaper, the family of slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry does not want officials here prosecuted, only the straw buyers and gunrunners who may have been involved in moving the murder weapon from a gun shop in this country into the hands of the criminal who killed him.

Yet, as this column reported yesterday, there is ample evidence that quite a few U.S. officials knew about the controversial gunrunning sting operation . It may be some of those officials Mexican authorities want to get their hands on for legal action.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; dncabovethelaw; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holde; holder; holderspeople; melson
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1 posted on 07/06/2011 4:50:18 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Something else the Lame-Stream Media can ignore.


2 posted on 07/06/2011 4:52:04 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: marktwain

Let the Mexicans have Eric Holder, for starters.


3 posted on 07/06/2011 4:54:24 AM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November (2012) from my house.)
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To: Steely Tom

I heard one small blurb on FOX about this yesterday but nothing since.


4 posted on 07/06/2011 4:54:32 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: marktwain

Normally, in the name of our sovereignty, I would tell them to kiss my royal a$$, but in this case, more power to them! It will be the only way we could get any accountability from the 0bama regime. The media and the lilly-livered cowards in congress certainly aren’t going to do anything!


5 posted on 07/06/2011 4:55:01 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: cripplecreek; marktwain

Well, as marktwain said, the new media is making a difference. Still it’s as infuriating as all getout.

The MSM is controlled by people who are all of one mind. They are a monolith.


6 posted on 07/06/2011 4:57:22 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: marktwain

Send them a check, they will quiet down.

That sounds a little flippant, but the fact is they will work out a deal , we will give them something and they will forget about it.


7 posted on 07/06/2011 5:01:16 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Howie66

“Let the Mexicans have Eric Holder, for starters.”

The Mexicans can have Obama, Biden, Pelosi, and the rest of the Democrats in the House and Senate too.


8 posted on 07/06/2011 5:03:31 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: marktwain

First they started with denials......

Our government lies more than Casey Anthony.


9 posted on 07/06/2011 5:06:40 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: marktwain

LOL!
Well Mexico, we’ve got about 1,000 of your folks we’d like extradited for prosecution here!
...And, oh, by the way, we’ve got about 50,000 of YOUR FELONS WE’D LIKE YOU TO TAKE BACK!


10 posted on 07/06/2011 5:13:55 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: Howie66
Let the Mexicans have Eric Holder, for starters.

EXACTLY!

11 posted on 07/06/2011 5:20:29 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: LottieDah

“The Mexicans can have Obama, Biden, Pelosi, and the rest of the Democrats in the House and Senate too.”

No problem with that. I just want us to have the first shot at those assholes. When we get done with them, the Mexicans can have at it.


12 posted on 07/06/2011 5:21:06 AM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November (2012) from my house.)
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To: Howie66

Sounds like a good start.


13 posted on 07/06/2011 5:21:40 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Happy Birthday America)
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To: marktwain

———President Obama is trying to intercede in Thursday’s scheduled execution of a Mexican citizen ———

That is not a true statement. He knows full well he has no say in the matter. He is in fact playing a different game on a different field. He is attempting to score points with the antideath penalty euro loyalists of the american left


14 posted on 07/06/2011 5:22:28 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: marktwain

They want to portray this as a ‘sting’ operation

OK, then it was the most inept ‘sting’ ever, and everyone who knew about it should be immediately fired for being incompetant


15 posted on 07/06/2011 5:29:12 AM PDT by Mr. K (CAPSLOCK! -Unleash the fury! [Palin/Bachman 2012- unbeatable ticket])
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To: Howie66

They can have Janet Incompitano as well.....


16 posted on 07/06/2011 5:29:21 AM PDT by jakerobins
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To: marktwain
...there is ample evidence that quite a few U.S. officials knew about the controversial gunrunning sting operation...

What "sting" operation??

They had no way to track the weapons after they went across the border, there was no way to 'sting' anyone.

I call BS on that!

The only 'sting' was inflating the numbers of allegedly legally purchased firearms which ended up in Mexico from the US, and using that inflated 'data' to try to infringe on our Second Amendment Rights.

For such treasonous behaviour, I'd just as soon let the Mexicans try the higher-ups.

17 posted on 07/06/2011 5:31:54 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: marktwain

I don’t feel like doing the research, esp since FR is so well-populated with history buffs and people who know these things off the tops of their heads so I’ll just ask the question here (instead of looking it up myself):

What drove the Iran/Contra story? Did the press shoot first, or did the Dems hold congressional hearings on the subject to trumpet it to the world?

The reason I ask is because no matter how much the MSM covers F&F up, it would be hard for them to ignore congressional hearings held by a REPUBLICAN-LED HOUSE into this matter.

Wasn’t the subject of “shipping guns to a country south of our border” one of the big aspects of Iran/Contra?

But regardless of whether there are Iran/Contra parallels here or not, I pose this question: WHAT IS THE REPUBLICAN-LED HOUSE DOING ABOUT FAST & FURIOUS?


18 posted on 07/06/2011 5:32:57 AM PDT by samtheman
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19 posted on 07/06/2011 5:35:53 AM PDT by bcsco
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To: The Sons of Liberty

The reverse the nationalities of the malfactors and those calling for prosecutions, and how would you feel. Mexicans must be steaming.


20 posted on 07/06/2011 5:35:53 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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