Posted on 09/02/2011 7:47:56 AM PDT by neverdem
Tuesday's replacement of the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who led Operation Fast and Furious, and resignation of the U.S. attorney for Arizona, who oversaw related prosecutions, are fitting consequences for their roles in that fiasco.
But they leave open questions of higher officials' culpability.
Still unclear is who's responsible for allowing illegal U.S. sales of hundreds of guns that agents lost track of while supposedly following their illicit trafficking to Mexican drug cartels. Until definitive answers emerge, denials of responsibility by Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama remain as suspect as the notion that Justice's internal probe will reveal the Fast and Furious truth.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says he wants "to ensure that blame isn't offloaded on just a few individuals for a matter that involved much higher levels of the Justice Department." His independent investigation, which continues, remains the best hope for getting to the bottom of this mess...
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Randy Weaver found out !!
“In 1996 U.S. Customs in Oakland seized 2,000 AK-47s delivered on a COSCO ship. According to federal documents these weapons were going to street gangs in southern California.
“Wang Jun chairman of Polytech, the manufacturer of these weapons, attended a White House function in February, 1996. On April 14, 1997 the AP said two truckloads of illegal Chinese arms bound for Mexico were found in a San Diego warehouse. According to the evidence there were four other truckloads of arms from China.
"Last year U.S. Customs in Oakland seized 2,000 AK-47s delivered on a COSCO ship. According to federal documents these weapons were going to street gangs in southern California.
Wang Jun chairman of Polytech, the manufacturer of these weapons, attended a White House function in February, 1996. On April 14, 1997 the AP said two truckloads of illegal Chinese arms bound for Mexico were found in a San Diego warehouse. According to the evidence there were four other truckloads of arms from China.
U.S. Customs caught the Chinese Overseas Shipping Company smuggling 2,000 fully automatic AK-47 assault rifles - destined for Los Angeles street gangs – aboard The Empress Phoenix. The guns were manufactured by China’s Poly Technologies, which is owned and managed by the Chinese government. Court documents reveal that Poly Technologies planned to expand their smuggling into the U.S. to Chinese-made hand grenades, mortars, RPG-7 anti-tank rockets and hand-held anti-aircraft missiles capable of knocking commercial airliners out of the sky.
Oliver North, call your office...
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