Posted on 09/07/2011 3:29:54 PM PDT by Nachum
The Law: Operation Gunwalker, the rogue ATF operation to arm Mexico's cartels, extends now to three White House officials. A bell goes off with the one named Dan Restrepo.
Late last Friday, CBS News and the Los Angeles Times almost buried the news that Restrepo, the National Security Council's top man for Latin America, and two other officials, were in on ATF memos from the Gunwalker operation called "Fast and Furious."
That blows apart White House claims that it had no idea the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was encouraging frontmen for Mexico's cartels to buy weapons from U.S. gun dealers to "trace" them afterward.
Some 2,000 U.S. guns were sold in Gunwalker but simply disappeared until they turned up at massacres in Mexico and at the murder scenes of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata.
But outgoing ATF acting director Ken Melson and others who've been the fall guys in this scandal darkly hint that their orders came from the White House, and domestic critics think Gunwalker can only be explained as a White House bid to boost support for gun control. Restrepo's involvement distinctly raises both possibilities.
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Well at least someone gets it.
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I hope it works just that way.
I am hoping that somebody will turn on them all and spill their guts.
If they did know they are criminals and need to go to jail.
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Yet another trail of breadcrumbs leads to the Center for American Progress...
Restrepo is buried up to his neck in BHO administration sewage.
“Restrepo was behind a U.S. bid to swiftly declare Honduras’ constitutional ouster of its president “a coup” and sanctioned the country...”
Really???
Mike Vanderboegh responds to IBD article and points to his previous article (April) on Restrepo:
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/09/investors-business-daily-asks-white.html
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/04/meet-dan-restrepo-is-dan-oliver-north.html
I must admit that I've been very itchy to see the whole thing spill out into the open, RFN, but it is better to put it on a slow boil so that the maximum "flavor" can be dragged out of this reprehensible plan to strip Americans of their 2nd Amendment rights by blaming "easy access to high-powered rifles" for crimes committed by Mexican drug cartels. This is INCREDIBLY obvious to anyone who looks at Obama, Holder and the rest of the gun-grabbers in the Administration, particularly in light of their promises to Sarah Brady that "things are in the works under the radar" for the gun-grabbing statists lobby.
I'd really like to see a special prosecutor - this is way worse than Watergate, even before anyone got literally murdered. Then we have the possibility of a "Deep Throat" who can substantiate the planning from the top, hopefully just in time to completely obliterate Odumbo next November.
Look for a quid pro quo - let cartels get militarized weapons. In return, the cartel contributes money covertly to Obama's campaign. Simple as that.
I think Fast&Furious is still open:)
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