Posted on 09/09/2011 12:13:22 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Congressional investigators reviewing the failed gun-tracking program Operation Fast and Furious have formally asked the Obama administration to turn over copies of "all records" involving three key White House national security officials and the program, other ATF gun cases in Phoenix, and all communications between the White House and the ATF field office in Arizona.
The letter signed Friday by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, was sent to National Security Advisor Thomas E. Donilon, a top aide to President Obama.
It marks a significant step in the committee's investigation into the failed gun-tracking operation, as the committee begins to broaden its investigation from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and targets White House and Department of Justice officials.
This material, Issa and Grassley said, "will enable us to determine the extent of the involvement of White House staff in Operation Fast and Furious."
White House officials, along with those at the Justice Department, said they have been cooperating in the widening probe, begun earlier this year when several ATF whistleblowers alerted congress that Fast and Furious weapons were found at the scene of the slaying of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Under the program, ATF agents allowed illegal gun purchases and hoped to track the weapons to Mexican cartel leaders. But most of the more than 2,000 firearms were lost. Hundreds have reportedly turned up in Mexican crime scenes, two at the shooting where Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed, and a semi-automatic at an altercation and assault with police in Maricopa, Az.
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I feel clean all over. ;’) Thanks Ernest.
They will pull a Clinton and be unable to find them for two years and suddenly they will show up laying on a table in a WH hallway.
The list, ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
The paper shredders were busy on those documents a long time ago, doncha think?(rhetorical question)
Or they’ll pull a Hillary and say “gee can’t seem to find them.”
Or they’ll just ignore Congress. Yeah,that’s probably what the Thugs will do.
As Obama answered when asked about more gun control, said he had things going on below the radar.
Jacquerie,
You are not new to this scene. Why in the hell are you expecting something to happen from this when the Congress doesn’t have the stones to demand a birth certificate?
Zero has spent $2M dollars of HIS OWN MONEY concealing it, yet Congress is too scared to chase after him. This is only keeping the little people distracted from making demands about the TSA gropers.
Issa is closing in ..
>Everything from the beginning. My money is still on Valerie Jarret as the one who came up with the idea.<
It won’t matter who came up with the idea. The point is that there are very few people who could have controlled the compartments that were necessary to make it happen.
Obama, Hillary, Holder and Nopalitano are the controllers. I think Issa is bringing it to their doorstep.
I doubt that we will ever hear who’s idea it was .. but if I were a betting man, I would say HRC.
>Website scrubbing underway!<
LA Times has been all over this for a while. They have actually reported it as headline news for quite some time. Seems the only real source of information from a paper of “record”
It did start under Bush but it was a different type of operation. Under the facsist’s it went over the line, no pun intended.
>My wifes colleagues at work (hospital) said that F&F started under Bush...is there any truth to this?<
Similar programs, but the one under bush was done correctly.
It was only when it was ‘expanded and continued’ by the Obama administration did they let guns walk.
Basically f&f was used as a political tool to run guns into Mexico to make the case for stronger gun control in the USA
Under Bush people didn't die of course under holder and company.......a couple dozen people died ...but it was for a worthy cause
To satisfy their fascist need to control us
Thank you for the ping Lucy, lots of scrubbing and shredding going on for sure.
No it doesn't. But I still like to make my speculations and if the investigation continues to dig deeper I do think it will be found out who came up with it. Especially with Zer0's propensity for throwing people under the bus.
Who was running the shredders in the White House while the Imposter was flapping his gums in the Congress Thursday night?? No one was watching the White House for at least a couple of hours.
And in these weird times, it is possible we could see that.
bump to the top
I thought the LA Times was on the no no list... do you know?
No idea.
Issa is one tough cookie. Someone needs to pay for the death of the Border Patrol agent.
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