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BATF Head Melson Implicates DOJ In Surprise July 4th Testimony
The American Thinker ^ | 7/7/2011 | Rob Miller

Posted on 07/07/2011 5:47:26 AM PDT by Lakeshark

Over the July Fourth weekend, there was a major development in the Fast and Furious investigation when BATF head Ken Melman made a surprise July 4th appearance before Darrel Issa and Chuck Grassley's congressional committee put together to investigate Fast and Furious.

That operation involved BATF(Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) agents allowing straw purchasers to buy over two thousand automatic weapons and then smuggle them illegally across the border to Mexican Drug cartels. The operation led to a spike in violence in Mexico, the killing in Arizona of a U.S. Border Patrol agent last December and a possible attempted cover up by the BATF and the US Department of Justice.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: borderproblem; fastandfurious; gunwalker; toast
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To: jrd

"Ken! Hey, how's it going? Listen, we're having a little cookout over in Virginia this afternoon, and I wanted to make sure you were coming! Yeah, it's just off the GW Parkway. Fort Marcy Park - you know it? Good! See ya there!"


21 posted on 07/07/2011 8:12:40 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: Roccus

I haven’t been following the story. Did they realy allow the purchase of 2000 automatic weapons, that really caught my attention.

I wish I could afford to buy one.


22 posted on 07/07/2011 9:10:18 AM PDT by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: dangerdoc
I haven’t been following the story. Did they realy allow the purchase of 2000 automatic weapons

Actually Semi Auto but it is not that difficult to convert them top full auto.

23 posted on 07/07/2011 10:17:16 AM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, Iconoclast: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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To: dangerdoc

2000 weapons....yes.

Automatic weapons......NO

The media is constantly spreading mis-information about weapons.


24 posted on 07/07/2011 10:46:39 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: cpdiii

Much cheaper and faster to buy black market ChiCom etc. autos than to pay retail in the US, transport across border and then convert.


25 posted on 07/07/2011 10:49:33 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: KeyLargo

testifying in secret on the 4th of July when all the Congress and DC is out of town?

creepy

Wow. I hope this guy is in a protection program.


26 posted on 07/07/2011 11:01:11 AM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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