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New warning bells in Operation Fast and Furious probe
Washington Examiner ^ | 08/30/11 | Masthead Editorial

Posted on 09/01/2011 6:45:29 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 09/01/2011 6:45:30 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Go for the big cheese not the little guys, remember he gets his orders from above!


2 posted on 09/01/2011 6:47:59 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: neverdem

Holder to Melson:

“...And Ken your new job is to keep my butt in office and out of jail.
So, hide it, bury it, burn it, but if I go down, you go down!”


3 posted on 09/01/2011 6:49:06 PM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: neverdem

These guys were all kicked upstairs because they know too much.


4 posted on 09/01/2011 6:51:02 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: ronnie raygun

You squeeze the “stuff” out of the little guys so that they decide to save their own hides and provide evidence to skewer those above.


5 posted on 09/01/2011 6:52:20 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: neverdem

Man, I hope Issa can bring down that Kenyan.


6 posted on 09/01/2011 6:54:19 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: ronnie raygun
Take them all down. The Nuremberg defense *Just following orders* cannot stand.

Anyone (BATF&E) that had knowledge of Fast & Furious, committed a crime.

7 posted on 09/01/2011 6:54:19 PM PDT by Deaf Smith
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To: ronnie raygun; neverdem
The way to get a full picture that will bring in all the higher ups who are involved is to bust down more smaller guys. I think it's time to display the instruments of torture to all the GS 15s at ATF because bagging this career caretaker isn't getting us any closer to Holder.

Remember, Mr. Big always leaves his traces in the lower ranks ~ not with all of them, but with some of them.

I'd be bringing in his "peeps", and I think Issa's staff people know who they are by now.

8 posted on 09/01/2011 7:00:50 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: neverdem; rabscuttle385

BATFags at it again. Might be worthy of a ping.


9 posted on 09/01/2011 7:10:04 PM PDT by 10thAmendmentGuy ("[Drug] crusaders cannot accept the fact that they are not God." -Thomas Sowell)
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To: neverdem

The investigation into fast and furious will soon turn into a misty cloud that will eventually disappear
I really don’t expect anything to become of it.

It comes from the top of course, Right from Obama Oval office, but it’s racist to try to prove that.

Issa will soon get the message, and he will fold up like a cheap suit. Hopefully I am wrong, but I can only base mu thoughts on what has happened to Obama so far including his counterfeit Birth Certificate.


10 posted on 09/01/2011 7:11:18 PM PDT by Venturer
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11 posted on 09/01/2011 7:11:59 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Bovina Sancta!)
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To: neverdem
They recycle people. Crime Inc.
12 posted on 09/01/2011 7:15:11 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk
They recycle people. Crime Inc.

Soylent Bureaucrat
13 posted on 09/01/2011 7:19:04 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: neverdem

Word is that a much larger volume of guns was going from Muzzie baddies like Hamas, Hez et al.

Sounds nuts, sure, but there was real potential for synergy; the Mexies control the routes in/out of the USA for money and people, while the Muzzies have lots of weapons —there was a natural confluence of interests, there.

The word is that the Obama Admin did know about it and did nothing —the arrangement would aid the crisis that they saw themselves as needing.

So this scandal is becoming truly huge.


14 posted on 09/01/2011 7:25:57 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Brilliant
"These guys were all kicked upstairs because they know too much."

There is an acronym in TX state gov't. FUMU, meaning Fxxx up, move up.

15 posted on 09/01/2011 7:31:43 PM PDT by matthew fuller (If America is to survive, the national socialist democrat (NAZI) party must be destroyed.)
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To: neverdem

They both took similar oaths, but the difference in patriotism between the military and civil servants (bizarre phrase, that) is astounding.

Many miiltary serve honorably even if it means, not only their career ending prematurely, but their very life ending prematurely. The number bought off with the gilded cage of future pensions has grown substantially, but the numbers that are still willing to make sacrifices for the nation remain substantial.

Put a civil servant in a position where they could make a real difference for the nation by foregoing their pensions and acting honorably, come what may, and few will do a single damned thing except what this guy describes. I, frankly, could not live with myself.


16 posted on 09/01/2011 7:50:10 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: neverdem
Maybe a little waterboarding is appropriate here.

I'm only half joking.

17 posted on 09/01/2011 8:11:35 PM PDT by Texan
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To: 10thAmendmentGuy
BATFags at it again. Might be worthy of a ping.

Actually, Melson was the acting Director of BATFE, this is his boss reassigning him. Which kikcs everything up a level, at least--and there aren't too many levels left in the food chain, there.

Imho, if Holder has been speaking to this issue under oath, they probably have him cold on perjury, but they're looking for bigger fish to fry.

An optimist would say break this wide open in the Fall, get both houses, and impeach the usurper. Heads should roll all the way down the pile, but I doubt it will end up that way.

18 posted on 09/01/2011 8:28:28 PM 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: Smokin' Joe

How about breaking it wide open next summer? Especially if Issa can connect the dots to Bambi.


19 posted on 09/01/2011 9:19:40 PM PDT by Jess79
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Maybe they will, but I wouldn’t give too much time for key people to have car wrecks, home fires, ‘operational accidents’, Ft. Marcy Park episodes, and the like. The trail could get mighty cold and quiet if they wait too long.


20 posted on 09/01/2011 11:21:10 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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