Posted on 07/06/2011 3:29:47 PM PDT by macquire
This morning, there was a stunning development in Congress’s investigation of the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” gun-running program: it was revealed that on July 4, Kenneth Melson, the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Obama administration’s intended fall guy in the scandal, broke ranks with his superiors. Without their knowledge, he gave an interview to Darrell Issa’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, accompanied only by his personal attorney. While a transcript of that interview is not yet public, it is clear that he blew the whistle on senior officials in the Justice Department.
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Mark my words..This goes ALL THE WAY to the top...Bambi himself. The buck stops there!
...and stays out of Ft Marcy Park.....
I believe Fast and Furious was the name the ATF designated to the program for internal correspondence. Gunwalker was something the justice department used to describe it in their communications.
He knows Obama will at some point HAVE to toss him under the yellow bus
Bill is an old hand manipulating a scandal
I wonder how the Clinton's will work this scandal into more power over Obama
I’m sure they will get right on it./s
They can't just send someone off for a detail for 6 months and then to another detail and so on and so forth ~ WITHOUT taking a permanent personnel action ~ that is a formal reassignment to something.
I know the laws in that regard very well having DESTROYED the old system with a successful appeal 33 years ago.
The idea that you can just transfer people around informally and kind of "lose them in the system" is simply not legitimate. Eventually they will be tracked down ~ if only by the payroll system!
Melson knew this ~ he also knows that everyone who participated in this little scheme ~ the smallest part of it ~ will be FIRED eventually, their reputations shredded beyond repair, their credit ratings dissolved before their very eyes.
Some of them might even be brought up on murder charges.
Might be a good time to start official procedings on impeachment if they don’t start cooperating. Impeachment might be the only way to get the media to report on this latest ‘high crime’ by the Obama Administration as well.
This is international. NOTHING this big happens without full knowledge of, and permission from, the whitehouse. NOTHING. obama signed off on this. There is no way the DOJ or ATF could have done this on their own, let alome apprropriate money from other government agencies.
And Eric, you might want to make recordings of your farts cause after a few months in a Mex Prison "Senorita Erica" they'll sound like curtains fluttering in an open window.
NB that assisting those who are straw-buyers of guns running them into Mexico (eg, giving them money or other material assistance) qualifies this activity as “international terrorism” as defined in USC Title 18.
This is not a small thing. Just watching passively whilst straw buyers come in and then trying to trace where the guns go afterwards is a known and upheld law enforcement practice.
But if the DOJ/DEA/et al gave any material assistance.... the Congress should use their platform to accuse Holder (et al) of taking part in international terrorism. And then they should offer to hear from Mexican law enforcement in sworn testimony.
Obama knows all he has to do is buy off the Mexican Government with Bribe money (YOUR MONEY), and it will go away....
It certainly is confusing. My interpretation:
Project Gunrunner - Started in GWB administration, had some success
Operation Fast and Furious - Offshoot/part of Project Gunrunner, re-purposed to support Obama's lie that 90% of the cartels' guns were coming from US
Project Gunwalker - a blogger's nickname for Operation Fast and Furious which plays on the original project's Gunrunner name and the fact that US agents allowed/facilitated the guns walking across the border
...stay out of airplanes and away from bridges and tall buildings....
Project Gunrunner, often referred to with the sarcastic term "Gunwalker" is an ATF program that started in the mid 2000's. FFL's (Federal Firearms Licensees) in the border areas were asked to report suspicious transactions and those weapons would be entered into an ATF tracking database. When possible the suspected straw purchaser was tracked down and arrested.
Operation Fast and Furious is an offshoot of the Gunrunner program based in Phoenix. It was essentially an expansion of the Gunrunner MO with the stated purpose of tracking weapons to drug cartels. The difference with F&F is that ATF didn't arrest anyone. The weapons got sold, were entered in the database and accounted for only when they showed up at a crime scene....such as the shooting of Brian Terry.
If Grassley follows it as high as it goes....You can color me blown away!!
“Mark my words..This goes ALL THE WAY to the top...Bambi himself. The buck stops there!”
Holder will fall on his sword and take all the blame after securing a secret deal with 0bama to be pardoned just before zero leaves office.
Fast and Furious-gate.
Nope.
This will start a whole new cycle of political scandal monikers.
The -gate is dead. The new hotness for the next two generations will be -walker.
Nobody died as a direct result of Watergate. Gunwalker is worse. Far, far worse.
"What did the President know, and when did he know it?" is still applicable, however.
Grassley has been doing some good things recently. He seemed pretty adamant in the interview.
MSM will do everything in its power to “embargo” (bury) this.
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