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.
Good find!
BANG!!!!
If it had not had been for a blogger FFGate would have never been exposed. I think you found that our government stimulated a crime with money to ban guns for the democratic anti-gun cause.
That has all the hallmarks of an Earmark.
Which Congresscritter Earmarked Gunrunner?
Another campaign commercial...Are you worried about whether guns will only be in the hands of criminals. Worry no more. Obama has a plan for that: Project Gunrunner.
“I wonder if Sen. Grassley and Rep. Issa staff’s know this information.”
Darrel Issa is my congressman. I just emailed him this information with a link to the story. Excellent work!
Good find...confirms to me this entire scam was intended to blame gun running on Americans and thus a “nice little crisis not wasted” to destroy the 2nd amendment.
BTTT
Operation Gunrunner is not the same as Operation Fast and Furious. Operation gunrunner actually arrested straw purchasers. Operation fast and furious let them go. “gunwalker” is a nick name given to operation fast and furious.
Project Gunrunner was already in effect. It was started under bush. This waa to continue THAT program, but the chief executive and the doj changed the rules and ordered th ATF to back off arresting the perps. THAT is when things began to spiral out of control nd the guns that “walked” got away. This op goes straight to the oval office and obama is a murderer responsible for the deaths of at least two American law enforcement officers and who knows how many other innocent people. A murderer without conscience, flat out, pure simple.
Anyone call this in?
If I recall correctly, didn’t the Apollo Alliance (Soros) write the Stimulus bill?
From their website:
Apollo Board of Directors
Chairman
Phil Angelides, President, Riverview Capital Investments
Members
Robert Borosage, President, Institute for America’s Future
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Chief Executive Officer, Green For All
Leo Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers Union
Gerald Hudson, International Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union
Mindy Lubber, President, CERES
Nancy McFadden, Executive Secretary for Legislation, Appointments and Policy, State of California
Terence M. O’Sullivan, General President, Laborers’ International Union of North America
Ellen Pao, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Michael Peck, Founder, MAPA Incorporated
John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress
Carl Pope, Chairman, Sierra Club
Dan W. Reicher, Executive Director, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University
Jerome Ringo, Senior Executive for Global Strategies, Green Port
Joel Rogers, Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy
...tricky dicky...
...only needed $3 worth of duck tape...
...bet a dime to a donut...
...this 10 Large wont get the same result... :(
It does not matter if Gunrunner and F&F are different programs.
If it can be proven that money earmarked in the Stimulus bill was used to purchase guns that ended up in F&F, then the implications go all the way to the person who signed the bill, Mr. Barak Hussein Obama himself.
wow, operation gunrunner was mentioned specifically in the s0-called stimulus bill?????
Don’t know if you all have been following this, but if you have you’ll want to see this.
Sure seems like the purpose of gun walker was US gun control and political agenda.
Don’t know if you all have been following this, but if you have you’ll want to see this.
True but if it was funded in 2009 it was then under Obama therefore it was operation F&F.
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