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.
If this is written into law the New York Times is a Government entity for doing nothing about this at all.
I really hope Mexico indicts some US Officials and I bet they will talk there.
Yeah, great catch....do we know if there were any actual hearings on this bill?? If so, someone from the Administration, not some buffone in Phoenix, would have had to appear to address the issue for which they were asking for money.
I think back to the scene in Clear and Present Danger where Jack Ryan is testifying that no funds would be used to fund any military operations. Of course, outside his knowledge, the White House was planning on doing exactly that.
Another win for islam!
Who needs Hamas when we have Omoslem?
Ping
When Obama said “shovel ready” he really meant “gun running”.
Well, I guess it’s close.
bump for later
Great catch - time to start alerting Breibart, Drudge and others
No, the Congress nor the POTUS penned the bill. It was done by one of Soros’ organizations. Glenn Beck talked about it in the past but I cannot remember the name of the organization.
Ping; this is pretty interesting.
Ping; a very interesting point by one of our own here at FR.
I forgot about that, but you are right. It was the Apollo Alliance that wrote that, mentioned here:
If it was mentioned before I and most of us missed it PLUS this information is more important than ever
Great Job. Freepers like you do a great service.
I am sending it to my rep and I bet most of us will.
This crap obama and dems are doing to kill America will be stopped
Thank you.
Good stuff here, I just skimmed through but will pursuit it later.
A salute for a nice piece of research!
Beautiful...a campaign theme the MSM can’t totally ignore, “The Obama administration’s greatest job creation success is among Mexican gun runners!!”
Regardless of if they read the bill before voting on it or not they had the opportunity to do so and should have! Voting for a bill specifically because you know it has funding for your pet project or pet cause is no way to perform your job duty as an elected representative. This is just like a CEO claiming plausible deniability for fraud or other illegal dealings of his company that occurred under his watch (he should have known about it because he is in charge - it is his bailiwick).
This is exactly what is wrong in washington!
Beautiful...a campaign theme the MSM can’t totally ignore, “The Obama administration’s greatest job creation success is among Mexican gun runners!!”
I should have added that it is clearly the genius of Obama to have addressed niche job creation and population control all at the same time (sarcasm intended).
“We need a means of having this sort of investigation conducted by people outside of Washington and that doesn’t mean people chosen by politicians.”
Of course you are correct, and we have such investigation NOT chosen by politicians, and IS performed by people outside Washington.
It’s called FreeRepublic.com. This thread is a prime example. Good catch Domandred.
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