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Posted on 09/28/2011 1:37:43 PM PDT by Nachum
During a White House roundtable with three Spanish-language media outlets on Wednesday, President Barack Obama skated around questions about Operation Fast and Furious.
“We’re working very hard to have a much more effective interdiction effort … we are checking southbound transit … to capture illegal guns, illegal cash transfers to cartels,” he said at the morning event with representatives from Yahoo!, MSN Latino, and AOL Latino/Huffington Post Latino Voices. “It is something we’ve been building … its not yet finished, and there’s more work to do,” he said.
Conservative Action Fund treasurer Shaun McCutcheon told The Daily Caller that Obama’s inability to answer basic questions about Operation Fast and Furious suggests the administration is covering up even more about the controversial program.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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ping and bflr
That Forbes article was devastatingly effective; concise but comprehensive.
The article does a good job of showing that the NEW leadership that was installed after the scandal heated up is JUST as guilty, and the other major subordinates who were implicated were PROMOTED.
I think we’re not even 30% of the way through this huge and expanding scandal, which now also includes hand-grenades.
At least someone in the media is asking questions.
I don’t believe he’ll ever condescend to be in a debate. He’s just way too important, too many important things to handle, laser-like focus on jobs, whatever. I think he knows he’d be creamed, so he’ll find some excuse to avoid debating. And the media will report that it’s justified, him being the most historic, most intelligent president we’ve ever had, just can’t be bothered.
His answer was ridiculous considering he said back in March that people would be held accountable. You have to know he has had many briefings on this fiasco since and for him to blame the budget in light of what has come out so far is pure coverup, and a bad one at that.
well if you had family members in Mexico killed by one of these guns, I suppose you’d like some answers too.
The article does a good job of showing that the NEW leadership that was installed after the scandal heated up is JUST as guilty, and the other major subordinates who were implicated were PROMOTED.
SEE POST #15 comment: "Kevin O’Reilly is the key, but Obama sent him to Iraq." [IIRC, this was not mentioned by Forbes.]
I think we’re not even 30% of the way through this huge and expanding scandal, which now also includes hand-grenades.
Fast & Furious: Congress expanding probe to include grenades
It is hard to keep up. Evidence on this crime is disclosed almost daily. What so impressed me about the Forbes article is that it is the most complete attempt to tell the story that I have seen. I don't believe most people (and even many Freepers) understand this complicated story as it has evolved over months.
In the TV MSM, only Fox has reported. CBS has a reporter, Cheryl Atkinson, who has done excellent reporting, but CBS has refused to put her on air. Crickets from all the others.
“It is something we’ve been building … its not yet finished, and there’s more work to do,”
This sounds like damn threat. like, if you think it’s bad now, just wait...
True, not mentioned by Forbes. The info came from Cheryl Atkinson’s Sep. 26 report:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20111626-10391695.html
O’Reilly and Newell are long-time friends and were F&F email buddies when O’Reilly was in the WH.
>Did “Fast and Furious” have some connection to ‘suspending elections’ - the stuff North Carolina spilled the beans on?
Do you have a ref for that?
The first thing that got me was “we are checking southbound transit … to capture illegal guns...”
Seriously, someone in the DNC (even by the Dem’s lyin talking-point standards) has to question this man’s compulsion to lie and his fitness to serve.
I’m not certain you (and Freeper’s posting before you) saw this Daily Caller UPDATE:
From the WH Press Office-—full transcript of Obama’s Fast and Furious exchange on Wednesday-—UPDATE 5:21 p.m.
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MR. [JOSE] SIADE [of Yahoo! Espanol]: Mr. President, this question comes from Karina in Ohio: Mr. President, what is your strategy to stop the flow of weapons bought with drug money in the U.S. and then sent to Mexico, especially after what happened in Operation Fast and Furious?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, this is a great challenge, and I’ve been the first one to admit — I’ve said this publicly in bilateral meetings with President Calderón that there’s a two-way street in terms of the problems of transnational drug operations. The Mexican government I think has been very courageous in taking on these cartels, at great cost, obviously, with respect to violence in Mexico. That’s the right thing to do.
We have to be a more effective partner in both reducing demand for drugs here in the United States and for stemming the flow of weapons and cash that help to finance and facilitate these cartels. So we’re working very hard to have a much more effective interdiction effort of south to north — or north to south traffic than we have in the past, so we are checking southbound transit to try to capture illegal guns, illegal cash transfers to drug cartels. It is something that we have been building over the last couple of years; it’s not yet finished.
And there’s going to be more work to do.
Part of the issue here, obviously, is budgetary. At a time when the federal government is looking for ways to save money, we’re going to have to figure out ways to operate smarter and more effective in our investigations without a huge expansion of resources because those resources aren’t there.
MR. SIADE: And in terms of the demand here in the U.S., what kind of efforts –
THE PRESIDENT: With respect to the demand in the U.S., our drug czar here in the United States I think has done a very good job working with schools and local communities, working with local law enforcement to try and continue to reduce drug demand. One of the things that I’ve always believed is that — and this is reflective in my administration’s policy — is that we can’t just think about this as a law enforcement issue; we also have to think of it as a public health issue.
If you think about the enormous changes that have been made in terms of people’s use of tobacco, for example, that wasn’t because they were arrested. It was also because young people were taught that smoking was bad for your health, it didn’t make you cool — public service announcements. So I think taking a comprehensive approach that includes interdiction and law enforcement, but also takes into account public health strategies, treatment.
A lot of cities around the country, if you decide that you want to rid yourself of drugs, you may have to wait three months, six months, to get into a local treatment program. Well, that’s not going to be particularly effective. So what we’ve been trying to see is can we get more resources into treatment, more resources into a public health approach, even as we continue to target the cartels, the drug kingpins, those who are really responsible for perpetrating the drug trade in communities across the country.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/28/obama-evades-fast-and-furious-questions-from-latino-media/
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It’s obvious he had these comments prepared. He was either reading from a script or had TOTUS at hand.
The anger. It burns. And there is no way I can express how I feel about this in public. I would be arrested, jailed, and they would throw away the key.
I can barely talk about it in private before I start sputtering.
The Forbes article was a good start.
Someone needs bust F & F wide open on a primetime hour special. If CBS had the guts, they would give Cheryl Atkinson an entire 60 Minutes episode. Why can’t she get her reporting on air?
Next best is for FOX to do an entire hour -— maybe Greta.
...BHO answers questions, “The money goes into a slush fund and the drugs go into my lungs and up my nose”. No problem, works out for everyone...
One store, Lone Wolf Trading Company in Glendale, Ariz., soon became the smuggler’s favorite. Andre Howard, owner of Lone Wolf Trading Company, declined to comment to us about Fast and Furious because he is under a congressional subpoena; however, recordings taped by Howard of him speaking to an ATF agent have been released by the U.S. Department of Justice. One of the suspects the ATF was watching as he bought guns from Lone Wolf Trading Company was Jaime Avila. He allegedly bought AK-47s at Lone Wolf Trading Company that turned up at a crime scene in which drug smugglers killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent (more on this to come). The other was Uriel Patino. As the ATF watched, he bought hundreds of firearms from Lone Wolf Trading Company and reportedly sold them to Mexico’s brutal Sinoloa drug cartel.
Lone Wolf Trading Company?
Lone Wolf Trading Company? That's a classic sting operation front name for law enforcement ... It's such an obvious name - that when the operation's done, insiders can laugh for years about how stupid crooks are... and they are... but that's later...
Looking at the name - and only the name - IMHO I'd say the real target wasn't Mexican drug dealers - it was the so-called 'lone wolfs' - the conservative boggie-man / straw man of the totalitarian left.
The 'boggie-man type the Southern Poverty Law Center claims exists everywhere. The one they pushed during the old 'vast right wing conspiracy' days.
"Lone Wolf" is the updated version of VRWC. Of course the totalitarian left hasn't been able to find ONE lone wolf - NOT one right wing terrorist in the last decade or two - that's their holy grail... So what were they suppose to do? The Totalitarian left has been saying these nutty conservatives (dangerous) are behind every tree - and THEY CAN'T COME UP WITH ONE!!!
The horror.
This program was probably designed to prime the pump - because scare stories quit working when no one can catch ONE right wing 'lone wolf'... The totalitarian left fears losing their "suck-ups" who write for the Washington Post and New York Times. And if they can't give them an "I told you so" piece every now and then, they will lose them. The MSM isn't as stupid as the left things... they do catch on after ten or fifteen years...
And yeah, there's probably a reason "Woodward and Bernstein" aren't on this...
I just love your statement there.
I have never seen nor heard anyone as bad as this guy.
Very good analysis.
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