Posted on 07/07/2011 10:06:47 AM PDT by Domandred
Something about Project Gunrunner (gunwalker, fast and furious) has been bugging me but I just couldn't put my finger on it.
This morning when I woke up I remember seeing Project Gunrunner in a bill that was discussed here. The original thread about it was a rumor thread that HR45 had been rolled into the stimulus package.
In that thread I scanned the text of H.R.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for gun, firearm, etc and came up with a hit.
I posted in the thread: "Only time “gun” or “firearm” appears is in the part that give $10,000,000 to the ATF for Project Gunrunner. That was H.R. 495, asking for 15,000,000 for Gunrunner".
H.R. 495 that I mentioned never made it out of committee, but it looks as it was to specifically fund Gunrunner.
Instead portions of it were rolled into the stimulus package a month later. That text found in H.R.1 is:
For an additional amount for ‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’, $40,000,000, for competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the Southern border, of which $10,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses’ for the ATF Project Gunrunner.
Notice that's $40,000,000 for Southern border enforcement, $10,000,000 of which specifically for Project Gunrunner. What does $10 million pay for here? It didn't hire any new agents that I am aware of.
What this tells me is that several congressmen also had knowledge of what Gunrunner was going to entail. This isn't just the ATF and DOJ. This is all levels and areas of government. Even members of the House and Senate knew what Project Gunrunner was.
Ok, thanks - I was trying to use their “search” feature but it wasn’t working.
Thanks again
Great catch mate!!
Domandred: Cross-posting my Mark levin post here:
Mark Levin mentioned this thread and credited FR via Pajama’s Media:
It is an update to this article at PM:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/gunwalker-whistleblower-atf-director-horribly-irresponsible/
Ping for later
I think this will be where the rubber meets the road. Find out who put it in.
ABC did some investigating??? I didn’t think they did that.
Actually, he was talking about jobs for coroners, funeral directors, and grave diggers in Mexico.
Send this to Brietbart
‘Well now isn't that special’
Obama is just as bad a Nixon...no??? well at least no one died under Nixon's Watergate...
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>>of which $10,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses’ for the ATF Project Gunrunner.
unbelievable!
Terrific find.
Wow...this needs to get to Darrell Issa ASAP...as well as Rush, Mark Levin, Hannity, Roger Hedgecock, etc. etc. etc.
Awesome work!!!
At least HotAir has picked it up. I’ve also posted on other forums. Don’t know what the deal is with Drudge. He needs to get on the ball. I’m not patting myself on the back, here, but I was the one who found the Obama ‘Mmmm, mmmm, mmm’ vid. I posted it on here, first, and sent it to him. He never posted it for some reason until it came out in the wash a few weeks later.
Bush was in charge for the first 19 days of 2009, so it naturally follows...
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Great work Domandred!
I forwarded a link to Rush through my 24-7 account, maybe he will take notice of your find.
Hannity covered it tonight.
4 am bump! ;-)
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