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ATF Florida Gun Probe Earns Congressional Scrutiny in Wake of 'Fast and Furious'
Fox News ^ | 07/14/2011 | Fox News

Posted on 07/14/2011 5:20:14 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour

Several lawmakers are questioning the Obama administration about whether the controversial "Fast and Furious" gunrunning probe may have had a cousin in Florida that resulted in guns being trafficked to Central America.

Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., penned a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Eric Holder and ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson inquiring about a program known as "Operation Castaway." Other top lawmakers are also starting to look into it, though ATF claims the program was above board and not similar to Operation Fast and Furious at all.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; batf; castaway; cia; dea; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; florida; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; melson; obama
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
For the safety of Americans, and now we find the world, the BATFE needs to be changed to the BAT (Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco.)

Take away their guns and badges and give them business cards. Let their job be to put Tax Stamps on booze bottles, chase moonshiners and bust stills with fire-axes, and look for bootleg cigarettes without Tax Stamps. Then put them under the IRS as glorified tax collectors.

Nothing More.

They've proved beyond any reasonable doubt that they're just too STOO-PID to be allowed anywhere near a firearm.

21 posted on 07/15/2011 6:34:12 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A.Einstein])
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To: driftdiver
Bush is no longer President.

You might tell the Bush apologist who initially brought Bush up on this thread.

He wasn’t perfect but he was a hell of a lot better than what we have now

That aint saying much. Chucko would be better than what we have now.

22 posted on 07/15/2011 9:22:50 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Drudge is finally starting to covering this. link
23 posted on 07/15/2011 10:04:34 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: Rapscallion
That wouldn't surprise me at all. I don't think we've heard the half of what Issa and Grassley have found out so far and I think they've just gotten started.

My investment tip of the day is; buy lots of popcorn! ;-)

24 posted on 07/15/2011 10:28:48 AM PDT by TigersEye (Wranglers not Levis. Levi Strauss is anti-2nd Amendment.)
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To: opentalk
Never mind, Druge took it down.
25 posted on 07/15/2011 11:18:10 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: Rapscallion
Sorry but I cannot help but believe that at the core we will find drug running by the government and the administration in exchange for political contributions.

Frankly, I'd bet that has been going on for a long time. Why else is the Southern Border not secure? It isn't like we need 40,000,000 farm workers.

26 posted on 07/19/2011 1:13:15 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

I’d just about bet my socks there is another operation or two buried yet, in Texas, New Mexico, or maybe even Illinois. (just some of the ‘problem’ states for trans border arms traffic, according to their model)


27 posted on 07/19/2011 1:15:05 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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