The Stimulation Of Murder

IBD Editorials ^ | July 8, 2011 | Staff

[Kaslin]

Scandal: The ATF's gun-running disaster was funded in the stimulus bill. Think about all the criminal and drug cartel jobs saved or created. And our attorney general once bragged to a Mexican audience about implementing it.

This could be, no pun intended, the proverbial smoking gun in a growing administration scandal that deserves as much mainstream media attention as Iran-Contra or Watergate.

Right there in the stimulus bill that no one in Congress bothered to read is $10 million for Project Gunrunner (aka Operation Fast and Furious), which resulted in the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and increased drug cartel violence.

Right there in the "shovel ready" stimulus, no black humor intended, is a provision for $40 million for "state and local law enforcement assistance" along our border with Mexico and in high drug-trafficking areas, "of which $10 million shall be transferred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, salaries and expenses for the ATF Project Gunrunner."

Attorney General Eric Holder's "I know nothing" imitation of TV's Sgt. Schultz has evaporated with the discovery of an April 2, 2009, speech to authorities in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in which he took Gunrunner credit for himself and the rest of the Obama administration.

Holder told the audience: "Last week, our administration launched a major new effort to break the backs of the cartels. My department is committing 100 new ATF personnel to the Southwest border in the next 100 days to supplement our ongoing Project Gunrunner. DEA is adding 16 new positions on the border, as well as mobile enforcement teams, and the FBI is creating a new intelligence group focusing on kidnapping and extortion."

[Neidermeyer]

[rdcbn]

The amazing thing is just how stupid these people. Never before have I seen a public official lie about misconduct and get caught on video tape or in written documents directly contradicting your lie.

In the Clinton Administration lying was elevated to an art form

I mean, lying to diary is bad enough but this insulting to our intelligence.

[marktwain]

Absolutely. Does anyone think that IBD did not get the information from freerepublic, posted by Domandred?

[marktwain]

To put the money in context, gunrunner was started under President Bush, and did *not* involve sending guns to Mexico, but just the opposite. It wasn't until 2009, under Obama and Holder that it was morphed into Gunwalker, of which Fast and Furious seems to be one part.