Posted on 09/29/2011 10:17:22 AM PDT by marktwain
Mexico's Attorney General Morales, the first woman to hold that office, believes Obama knows more about guns smuggled into Mexico than he's admitting. Credits: KnowGangs.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jim Kouri
Jim Kouri Website: http://www.examiner.com... Email: Email President Barack Obama appears to be getting it from all sides regarding a government snafu dubbed Operation Fast and Furious. Besides both houses of the U.S. Congress and a number of public-interest groups investigating what is being characterized as a rogue federal law enforcement operation, Mexico's attorney general is infuriated over the allegations that the U.S. was behind the smuggling of weapons into Mexico that ended up killing her countrymen.
In a statement released by Mexican Attorney General Marisela Morales, she called Operation Fast and Furious “an attack on Mexicans’ security.”
Morales told Mexican reporters that she is demanding a full and honest explanation from the United States government especially since evidence is being gathered that reveals the Obama administration was more involved in Operation Fast and Furious than top officials admitted in their sworn statements.
If what is being reported is true, U.S. Attorney General and other government officials may have committed perjury and/or obstruction of justice if it's proven they lied when testifying before House and Senate committees.
Operation Fast and Furious was a botched Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives covert operation initiated in order to track more than 2,000 smuggled guns to Mexican drug cartels by allowing gang members to purchase them illegally from U.S. gun stores then take them back to their leaders.
However, according to Congressional reports by both Rep. Darryl Issa (R-CA) and Senator Charles Grassley (R-NE), the federal agency lost track of many of the guns. Some later were traced to murders of police and civilians in Mexico and the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, Brian Terry.
There is also mounting evidence that the Cartel members obtained other weapons including grenades and brought them back to Mexico with the full knowledge of the ATF and the U.S. Justice Department.
President Obama said in June he would discipline the Fast and Furious organizers once the investigation is completed. He then stated that the Fast and Furious fiasco was never approved by his Justice Department officials.
However, reports from several sources including the non-governmental agency Judicial Watch, Fox News Channel and The Examiner strongly suggest there indeed high-level government involvement.
According to Fox News, documents obtained by their news staff revealed that the ATF agents involved actually sold some of the guns to gang members. They allegedly purchased the guns with taxpayer money.
Meanwhile Mexico's Attorney General claims she learned about the operation in the news media rather than being told about it in advance by U.S. government officials, including members of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's staff.
Morales said that if U.S. federal officials were involved, it would be a “betrayal” of Mexico while its police and military were fighting a war against drug cartels. Tens of thousands of Mexicans have been killed since the "war on drugs" began in 2006. Almost weekly, Mexican authorities are finding mass graves of those murdered by the cartels.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the House Oversight Committee’s chairman, recently said that it appears the trail of evidence about who authorized Operation Fast and Furious leads back to the White House.
Operation Fast and Furious began in October 2009 with sales from American gun stores to Mexican cartel members. They allegedly spent over $1 million on the firearms. Then in June 2010, ATF picked up the pace of the smuggling by allowing its agents to sell the guns to gang members, according to government documents obtained by Fox News and Judicial Watch.
According to his own testimony, ATF Agent John Dodson was ordered to buy six semi-automatic handguns then sell them to buyers he knew were illegal, the documents say.
Dodson claimed during his House testimony, that he acted on his own, against supervisors’ instructions, to monitor the movement of the guns to a “stash house.” He kept the house under surveillance until a vehicle showed up to pick up the guns for smuggling into Mexico.
Dodson says he called for a team to move in to arrest the smugglers, but his supervisors refused. The guns then disappeared from ATF surveillance.
Groups such as the Second Amendment Foundation believe the operation was "dreamed up to show proof that U.S. guns are contributing to the crime and violence in Mexico," something that has been alleged by President Obama, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and their supporters in the gun-control lobby.
People forget Jaime Zapata because he was undercover and murdered in Mexico. DO NOT FORGET JAIME ZAPATA. He was set up and murdered. This administration is at least reponsible for TWO Anerican Law Enforcement MURDERS. Many people believe that Brian Terry was set up as well. I would also bet money that the National Guardsmen who were gunned down in Carson City were victims of walked guns as well. It ws definitely a planned hit.
Wonder if she’ll seek extradition for Obama, Holder and the heads of the ATF, FBI and CIA?
After socialized medicine, about the only step they have left to overthrow capitalism and install communism is their “violent revolution” that, according to their tenets, is absolutely necessary in order to make that transition.
Unfortunately for them, too many patriots out here have the means to resist this “next step”.
dream on
Obama, and even Holder to a lesser extent, have an impenetrable melanin-based ethics charge shield.
I said yesterday the Mexican government would have to take the lead on this in order to get answers. Hey, what if they denied American companies from building or opening new businesses until they got answers? There’s dozens of ways they could apply pressure here. The DOJ stonewalling should have us screaming for answers. In the meatime, shredders are burning midnight oil while computer memories are being santized/destroyed. We need real action now.
Oh ye of little faith! ;
Hopefully Fast and Furious is a one way ticket to Leavenworth for Barry and Eric. I would love to see the video of Obama on his first day in prison with his new cellmate Bubba.
SNAFU? A snafu indicates an accidental, unforeseen happenstance.
This was nothing of the kind. This was thought out in great detail at DOJ and WH.
Of all the people to sell guns to and assault weapons and grenades at that!!! Mexican drug cartels for God's sake!!
How could ANYONE be this stupid??
I'm sure that these weapons will show up when they gear up the Reconquista as well!
It's like we have cartoon characters running this country, or literally, the Keystone Kops!
And they earn HOW much in taxpayer money a year????????
Just because Ms. Morales was unaware of the program does not mean her boss was also in the dark. After all, Gun Walker suits his long term goals just as well as it fits Obama's goals.
I'd not be surprised if this was virtually the last we hear from Ms. M.
I’m sure this will be spread all over the lame street press! (Do I even need to tag this with an s?)
We need to shoot down this meme whenever it surfaces. This operation was not BOTCHED. It was UNCOVERED.
Exactly. The “SNAFU” wasn’t that they didn’t track (what, ANY??) of the weapons, the problem is they got caught in their crimes!!!
Thank you for standing up for these men, and it’s very possible that murder of the National Guardsmen were part of this as well.
I heard mentioned on the radio that there was some cache where they were keeping the guns, and the agents were told not to watch it. One agent did anyway, phoned in when the BGs showed up to get them, and was told to let them go.
MEXICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL: "0BAMA MORE INVOLVED IN FAST & FURIOUS THAN ADMITTED!" (gunwalker)
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One agent was so unconfortable about this, he tried to rig his OWN tracking device using Radio Shack components, but the battery didn’t last long enough.
That was Dodson the whistleblower (or one of them), I’ve got bunch of windows open and it’s in one or two of the artlces, also yesterday’s.
Unbelievably damning.
One source for stories from the border is a tv station’s website, krgv.com. I go down there on a regular basis and have found that the news is the only thing that isn’t allowed to get out of the valley. These stories are not found in San Antonio or Houston, much less anywhere else in the country. What is really frightening is that US house representatives from the border area stay silent. They have families and friends down there. They are willing to allow a dangerous situation to get out of control rather than speak up against their leaders. I guess they figure they are safe up there in dc and it doesn’t affect them.
Interesting video to watch is one titled “The terrorist trail 2.” Watch the whole thing. Takes about 8 minutes. Doesn’t pull punches. But like I said, the feds have done a hell of a job to make sure that NONE of the local news gets out of the valley. ABCCBSFOXNBC Incorporated won’t touch this. Why? Who cares but they just won’t.
This information is not hard to find. The feds are ignoring this intentionally. Al Queda and hezbolla is in our country. The border patrol state that they catch about 1 out of 10 that come across the border.
This is the kind of crap we have had to deal with down here for years. The obama regime arming up the drug armies just elevated the situation.
HILLARY CLINTON, 3-25-09: “Our inability to prevent (U.S.)weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/world/americas/26mexico.html
Correction: the once great Republic is being ruled by the Kommie Kenyan Klown and his Klown Posse. [Four K’s for short]
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