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U.S. Government Used Taxpayer Funds to Buy, Sell Weapons During 'Fast and Furious'
Fox News ^ | Sept. 26, 2011

Posted on 09/26/2011 11:25:52 PM PDT by T.L.Sink

Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa cartel - the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic weapons and then watched as the guns disappeared. This disclosure, revealed in documents obtained by Fox News, could undermine Justice's previous defense that Fast and Furious was a "botched" operation where agents simply "lost track" of weapons as they were transferred from one illegal buyer to another. Instead, it heightens the culpability of the federal government as Mexico has opened two criminal investigations into the operation that flooded their country with illegal weapons. Operation Fast and Furious began in 2009 and ATF agents encouraged gun stores to sell weapons to an arms smuggling gang and watched as the guns crossed the border and were used in crimes. In June 2010, however, the ATF dramatically upped the ante, making the U.S. government the actual "seller" of guns.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunrunner; gunwalker
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To: Smokin' Joe
I can only see one reason for not securing the southern border, especially after 9/11. Someones are getting very rich.

Those someones would be the Democrats. Illegals are part of their strategy for gaining and keeping power. Remember, everything for the Democrats boils down to power. Ever issue with them is a fake issue. The real issue is power. Welfare? They care nothing about the suffering of the poor. They simply want them dependent on the Democrats. Blacks? They care nothing about blacks, only votes. The "workers", communist slang for the masses? They only want the union support and the money laundering scheme that accompanies it. The same with illegals.

They always get someone else to pay their way and when things go wrong, as they inevitably do, they will blame others.

41 posted on 09/27/2011 10:12:34 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: justa-hairyape
Are there any countries still on this planet that Obama has not screwed over yet ?

When you screw America you screw every other freedom loving country in the world. They all look to the USA for inspiration and protection from the world tyrants. Most economies also depend on the US economy.

42 posted on 09/27/2011 10:15:18 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: T.L.Sink

The Going On Progressive party controlled both houses in the 90s and did not hold Clinton accountable for his crimes.

What will it take to get the good people in this country to wake up and realize the government no longer represents us?


43 posted on 09/27/2011 11:01:57 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: T.L.Sink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrApLNmjtk&feature=related

Actually found this on the Twitter Attack Watch site.


44 posted on 09/27/2011 12:24:01 PM PDT by Excellence ( CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: Excellence

Thanks for the YouTube reference. Obama and Holder not only authorized Fast and Furious but it was also a back door way for them to undermine our Second Amendment.


45 posted on 09/29/2011 2:33:17 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: Just mythoughts

Debbie “blabbermouth” Schultz is a perfect example of the far-Left sort of loon who doesn’t understand the first thing about gun violence and the fact that it’s been documented that guns in the possession of law-abiding citizens actually REDUCE violent crime. (As for example in the highly researched book “More Guns, Less Crime”) Her objective that she shares with her far-Left fellow travelers is to render the Second Amendment meaningless.


46 posted on 09/29/2011 2:46:47 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: MikeSteelBe

I think the election in 2012 will be a day of reckoning. It began with the GOP taking the House last election and I think people are waking up fast and have had it.


47 posted on 09/29/2011 2:55:15 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

Do you think the Democrats will allow a free, fair election next year if they can get it suspended?

When the end justifies the means, any bad thing is possible.


48 posted on 09/30/2011 3:27:03 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: MikeSteelBe

I think suspending an election is a stretch too far even for them. I expect a traditional Chicago thug-style campaign aided and abetted by the liberal MSM. By the way, an old and true historical maxim is that when the end justifies the means, the means eventually becomes the end.


49 posted on 10/02/2011 9:58:30 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

Normalcy bias is so bad in America that no one would have thought an operation akin to the Reichastg fire would happen here.

Now the President lies as if the progressive tax rate does not exist, and a Democrat governor suggests suspending elections!

The propaganda media plays right along, like Goebbels himself were in charge.

Are you willing to stake the freedom of your loved ones on them not going “too far”?


50 posted on 10/02/2011 1:59:14 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: MikeSteelBe

Dr. Goebbels was evil but a propaganda genius. He’d be insulted to have such pedestrian hacks compared to him.


51 posted on 10/04/2011 8:59:32 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

True, but the average democrat is so intellectually lazy and stupid that these hacks are controlling them like Pavlov’s dogs.


52 posted on 10/04/2011 11:01:39 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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