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AP Story Leaves Out Key Point on Fast and Furious
Townhall ^ | 4 Oct 2011 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 10/04/2011 8:44:31 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss

The Associated Press is reporting the following:

"The federal government under the Bush administration ran an operation that allowed hundreds of guns to be transferred to suspected arms traffickers — the same tactic that congressional Republicans have criticized President Barack Obama's administration for using, two federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

"When Bush, a Republican, was president, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Tucson, Ariz., used a similar enforcement tactic in a program it called Operation Wide Receiver. The fact that there were two such ATF investigations years apart in separate administrations raises the possibility that agents in still other cases may have allowed guns to "walk."

The problem is, the "same tactic" under heavy criticism by the House Oversight Committee was not used under President Bush.

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Project Gunrunner involved the surveillance of straw purchasers buying weapons, but those purchasers were immediately apprehended before crossing back into Mexico or tranferring arms to dangerous criminals. Shortly after Obama took office, Operation Fast and Furious allowed straw purchasers working for Mexican drug cartels to purchase mass amount of weapons in the United States and then take them back to Mexico in addition to allowing them to be lost at stash houses and tranferred to dangerous cartel members.

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This appears to be the latest spin from Obama/The MSM -- that "Bush did it too."

The difference appears to be that under Bush, the buyers were apprehended, whereas under Obama, the guns were allowed to go to the drug cartels in Mexico.

There was a Washington Post reporter interviewed by Greta Van Susteren tonight about Fast & Furious who played the "Bush did it too" card.

1 posted on 10/04/2011 8:44:35 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Meet the New Boss

BTTT


2 posted on 10/04/2011 8:46:10 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: Meet the New Boss; MestaMachine

Bush’s fault!

Not.


3 posted on 10/04/2011 8:48:44 PM PDT by AZ .44 MAG (Repeal Obama)
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To: Meet the New Boss; onyx; RedMDer; maggief; Lady Jag; The Cajun; tubebender; musicman; trisham; ...

Project Gunrunner involved the surveillance of straw purchasers buying weapons, but those purchasers were immediately apprehended before crossing back into Mexico or tranferring arms to dangerous criminals.

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State-run media liars ....


4 posted on 10/04/2011 8:49:03 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: Meet the New Boss

At this stage, blaming Bush is a desperate act. And similarly to Godwin’s Law, whoever blames Bush first is destined to lose.


5 posted on 10/04/2011 8:52:13 PM PDT by rfp1234 (RFP's Law: Whoever blames Bush first shall lose the argument.)
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To: rfp1234

That would be Godwin’s Advanced Law. And, by the way, our president is all boy. There is no manliness to him.


6 posted on 10/04/2011 8:55:10 PM PDT by healy61
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To: STARWISE

FLASHBACK:

July 20, 2007

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0720/p01s05-usfp.html/%28page%29/2

According to an internal ATF report summarizing just 10 investigations in the Phoenix office since 2006, the gunrunning probes yielded almost 1,000 firearms probably “bound for Mexico, southern Arizona, and southern California.”

In one of those cases, ATF officials documented an unlicensed merchant who spent at least 100 days selling firearms at gun shows over the course of a year, violating a law that permits such individuals to divest themselves of their gun collections only once in their lifetimes. Agents reported seizing 129 firearms from this dealer, but “due to the fact that most of the firearms sold by the defendant were obtained from secondary sources and then resold, little documentation exists that would link [guns used in crimes] to the defendant,” the report said.

Another ongoing case involves a straw-purchase scheme among a foursome suspected of trafficking 130 firearms to Mexico, southern California, and Arizona. The document states: “To date, 21 [of those 130] firearms have been recovered in crimes, including 16 of them in Mexico. A firearm recovered in Mexico was used in the shooting of a Mexican police officer.”

“Our priority is curbing gunrunning in the Southwest,” says Newell, who currently manages 24 ATF agents working cases here in Phoenix.


7 posted on 10/04/2011 8:57:28 PM PDT by maggief
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ATF agents who have testified before Congress about the program said the idea was to "trace" those weapons, but the tracing ended up being a total failure as GPS batteries ran out and thousands of guns were lost in Mexico and only found at final violent crime scenes.

This is the first I've heard about the guns having tracking devices. I remember Rep. Darrell Issa and Sean Hannity talking about them NOT have tracking devices.

8 posted on 10/04/2011 9:01:17 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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It has come out before that two guns had makeshift tracking devices that failed.
That leaves another 2,000+ guns that never had any kind of tracking device.
9 posted on 10/04/2011 9:05:46 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Meet the New Boss

Just the same old Chicago style ‘RAT bull**** trying to take some of the heat off of Barry and Holder. I’m not buying it.


10 posted on 10/04/2011 9:06:24 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you always tell the truth, you won't have to remember what you said.)
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The tracking is key to unraveling this. To my mind there are three main possibilities:

STUPID: They wanted to track them, but were incompetent.

EVIL: They did not intend to track them in order to use the resulting bodybags to bolster the argument for taking away RKBA in the USA.

CORRUPT: They were allowing the guns to go to the Sinaloa cartel, and were taking sides in the war between CDS and Los Zetas.


11 posted on 10/04/2011 9:09:33 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss (Cain you hear us NOW?)
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To: Meet the New Boss

Lies by omission are lies. Stalinist revisionist history lies.


12 posted on 10/04/2011 9:10:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ('Are now or have you ever been a member of the tea party?' is NOT a legitimate debate question.)
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To: Nachum

ping to #7


13 posted on 10/04/2011 9:13:30 PM PDT by Loud Mime (The Obama voters are dumber than you think, meaner than you can imagine)
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To: Meet the New Boss

In 2006 Bush did a Jedi mind trick on Holder, causing him to lie under oath. In other news, more green jobs....


14 posted on 10/04/2011 9:18:14 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The AP report is another libtard fluff report

Bush would not have allowed the guns across the border.
Bush would not have allowed the guns going to drug cartel.
Bush would not have allowed the guns to kill US Federal officers on American soil.
Bush wouln not have allowed Sheriffs Deputies to be fired upon 70 miles within the US border with Mexico.
Bush wouldn’t put up 15 signs warning of illegal immigrant and illegal drug trafficing, and suggesting an alternate route.


15 posted on 10/04/2011 9:27:40 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (The ony thing worse than a Zero administration, ...would be a Pelosi adminsitration.(Think about it))
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To: vette6387; MetaThought; 60Gunner; XHogPilot; FreedomPoster; Josephat; Prince of Space; ...
Bush's Fault ping.


JUST DO IT!

16 posted on 10/04/2011 9:40:53 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: Meet the New Boss

This is their only card. Bush did it too is the only way to spin attention away from the Leavenworth Hotel that Obie, Holder and about 15 DOJ and ATFE brass should be housed in.

Lies. Murder. Spin.

The Chicago Way. Issa better wear a vest.


17 posted on 10/04/2011 9:49:17 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: TigersEye
It has come out before that two guns had makeshift tracking devices that failed. That leaves another 2,000+ guns that never had any kind of tracking device.

Or, that the bad guys were smart enough to check for and disable the devices. But, if that were the case, I'm sure it would have come out during testimony. Without proof, I would not believe that two guns had tracking devices. IMHO, these people have been caught in toooo many lies for them to be believed on anything.

18 posted on 10/04/2011 9:51:20 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: Razz Barry

No, it was testimony from an ATF agent that only two guns had tracking devices.


19 posted on 10/04/2011 9:53:10 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Meet the New Boss
The tracking is key to unraveling this. To my mind there are three main possibilities:

STUPID: They wanted to track them, but were incompetent.

EVIL: They did not intend to track them in order to use the resulting bodybags to bolster the argument for taking away RKBA in the USA.

CORRUPT: They were allowing the guns to go to the Sinaloa cartel, and were taking sides in the war between CDS and Los Zetas.

Because of all the alphabet agencies involved, I'd say all three. Each individual involved had his/her own agenda. One of them is making money helping the drug cartels.

20 posted on 10/04/2011 10:02:43 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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