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Obama DOJ Gave Cartel Enough Guns to Arm a Marine Regiment
Townhall.com ^ | July 26, 2011 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 07/27/2011 5:47:36 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

I wonder if any of the occupiers at our national parks are armed with these weapons.


21 posted on 07/27/2011 8:20:01 AM PDT by ScottinVA (As a party that gives Obama what he wants, what again is the GOP`s 2012 selling point?)
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To: moovova

.50 cals.

I wonder what the logistics was on that. Where’s the paperwork on asset transfer, transportation and property custodian assignment/approval?

‘Spose the DOJ thought it could Excess .50 cals without DRMO noticing?


22 posted on 07/27/2011 8:40:11 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: cripplecreek; Bitsy

“If the national security council was aware (Which it seems to have been), nearly every cabinet member plus Obama is guilty.”

Let’s say that again.
“If the national security council was aware (Which it seems to have been), nearly every cabinet member plus Obama is guilty.”


23 posted on 07/27/2011 8:42:09 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Kaslin

Who took the bribe in D.C.?.Bet this case gets hid real fast.


24 posted on 07/27/2011 9:12:00 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: AuntB; Tennessee; Grampa Dave; Condor51; Clintonfatigued; moonshinner_09; ...
NOTE This nails all of them.....0bama, Clinton, Incompetano, and Holder.

AG Holder discussed "Project Gun Runner" in April 2009 in Mexico.
FR POSTED Friday, July 08, 2011 by Glock The Vote
SOURCE: DOJ release | April 2, 2009

US Attorney General Eric Holder at the Mexico/United States Arms Trafficking Conference CUERNAVACA, MEXICO ~ Thursday, April 2, 2009 Remarks as prepared for delivery.

ATTY GEN HOLDER: First, let me express my thanks to (Mexican) Attorney General Medina Mora and Secy of Government Gomez Mont for making this conference possible. This is my first trip to another country as Attorney General.

I wanted to come to Mexico to deliver a single message: We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you in this fight against the narcotics cartels. The United States shares responsibility for this problem and we will take responsibility by joining our Mexican counterparts in every step...

And, together, we will win – thanks in large part to the courage of my Mexican colleagues here today, who are on the front lines every day, and with whom I am proud to collaborate.

The topic that has been addressed over the past two days could not be more important – the development of an arms trafficking prosecution and enforcement strategy on both sides of the border.

I would like to thank the Mexican and U.S. experts who have worked so hard on this issue. On our side, Secretary Napolitano and I are committed to putting the resources in place to increase our attack on arms trafficking into Mexico.

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.

DHS is making similar commitments, as Secretary Napolitano will detail. But as today’s conference has emphasized, the problem of arms trafficking will not be stopped at the border alone. Rather, as our experts emphasized, this is a problem that must be met as part of a comprehensive attack against the cartels – an attack in depth, on both sides of the border, that focuses on the leadership and assets of the cartel.

This is the type of full-bore, prosecution-driven approach that the U.S. Department of Justice took to dismantle La Cosa Nostra – once the most powerful organized crime group operating in the United States. With partners like those we have here today, I am confident that together, we will defeat these narcotics cartels in exactly the same way. I am proud to stand with you, and to join you in this fight.

Thank you again for inviting me here. ####

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REFERENCE----WHAT IS THE MERIDA INITIATIVE? The US Congress passed legislation in late June 2008 to provide Mexico with $400 million and Central American countries with $65 million that year alone, for the specific purpose of "fighting drug wars." The initiative was announced 22 Oct 2007 and signed into law June 30, 2008.

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REFERENCE America's Third War: Is the U.S. Arming Mexican Cartels?
FoxNews.com | May 31, 2011 | William La Jeunesse
FR Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2011 by neverdem

If you ever watch video or look at pictures of Mexican drug wars, you see some pretty heavy weapons. It is a war being waged with rockets and plastic explosives, not pea shooters and Saturday Night Specials.

Consider these incidents:- A M26A2 fragmentation grenade used against a U.S. Consulate in Mexico in 2008 - Explosive projectiles and 21 grenades found during a raid in Guadalupe - An unexploded grenade and pull ring used to attack a TV station in Monterrey - Automatic weapons, including U.S.-made M16s, found at a cartel crime scene in May 2009- U.S. military-issued ammunition found in a cartel raid in Reynosa in November 2008. You can't buy this stuff at a U.S. gun store. So where do the cartels get it?

According to leaked diplomatic cables, there are three sources.

1. US Defense Department shipments to Latin America, known and tracked by the US State Department as "foreign military sales."

2. Weapons ordered by the Mexican government, tracked by the State Department as "direct commercial sales."

3. Aging, but plentiful arsenals of military weapon stores in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Even though these facts were well-known by the Obama administration, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder, it blamed much of the violence in Mexico on US gun shops. "More than 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our border," President Obama said in February 2009.

That was contested, but few listened to gun store owners and former vets like Lynn Kartchner, owner of Allsafe Security, a gun shop in Douglas, Ariz...(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com

25 posted on 07/27/2011 9:27:07 AM PDT by Liz ( A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
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To: Kaslin

A Gubamint complicit in mayhem and terror in its neighbor.. and lying about its own complicity every step of the way to the mic.

Definitely not a ‘Good Neighbor’ approach.

someone needs to pay .. with cell time ,, and I don’t mean on a phone.


26 posted on 07/27/2011 9:33:35 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: combat_boots

Basically the entire executive branch of government.


27 posted on 07/27/2011 9:49:12 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Kaslin

Prosecute, convict and imprison Eric Holder. Impeach, convict and imprison Barack Hussein Obama.


28 posted on 07/27/2011 11:04:55 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Liz

” According to leaked diplomatic cables, there are three sources.

1. US Defense Department shipments to Latin America, known and tracked by the US State Department as “foreign military sales.”

2. Weapons ordered by the Mexican government, tracked by the State Department as “direct commercial sales.”

3. Aging, but plentiful arsenals of military weapon stores in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Even though these facts were well-known by the Obama administration, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder, it blamed much of the violence in Mexico on US gun shops. “More than 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our border,” President Obama said in February 2009. “

It is clear what Obama & Holder were up to here.


29 posted on 07/27/2011 11:14:19 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Kaslin

...Good on yer, bump for later...


30 posted on 07/27/2011 11:15:56 AM PDT by gargoyle (...This looks like a good fight, deal me in...)
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To: Liz; AuntB; Tennessee; Grampa Dave; Condor51; Clintonfatigued; moonshinner_09
NOTE This nails all of them.....0bama, Clinton, Incompetano, and Holder.

Hillary Clinton, that is. I don't know of anything this evil of this genre that Bill did. Waco was a different kind of evil.


31 posted on 07/27/2011 11:16:09 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: Kaslin

32 posted on 07/27/2011 12:35:36 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Army Air Corps

Bookmark


33 posted on 07/27/2011 2:46:30 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
But no Republican dares to say it.

The Republican with the largest set of balls said it.

Palin: Chicago Thugs Not Doing Our Country Much Good

34 posted on 07/27/2011 6:56:49 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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