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Fast & furious lies: Justice Dept. must come clean
NY Post ^ | December 4, 2011 | Michael A. Walsh

Posted on 12/05/2011 4:08:23 AM PST by lowbridge

It was all a lie. The angry denials, the high dudgeon, the how-dare-you accuse-us bleating emanating from Eric Holder’s Justice Department these last nine months.

Operation Fast and Furious — the “botched” gun-tracking program run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — did, in fact, deliberately allow some 2,000 high-powered weapons to be sold to Mexican drug cartel agents and then waltzed across the border and into the Mexican drug wars — just as Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa, who are leading the congressional investigations, have charged all along.

That’s the conclusion we can draw from Friday night’s nearly 1,400-page document dump, which gives us a glimpse into the inner workings of the Justice Department as it struggled earlier this year to come up with an explanation for the deadly mess — and “misled” Congress.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; dea; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; holder4criminals; holder4hezbollah; holder4murderers; holder4obama; holder4perjury; holder4terrorists; holdervsamerica; holdervscongress; obama

1 posted on 12/05/2011 4:08:26 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Jail the regime.


2 posted on 12/05/2011 4:18:33 AM PST by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: luvbach1

A firing squad using captured F&F weapons would be most appropriate.


3 posted on 12/05/2011 4:43:20 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Government must be taken back from the thieves who have stolen it.)
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To: lowbridge
"We're still pursuing gun control, but under the radar."


4 posted on 12/05/2011 4:56:28 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: lowbridge
Everybody knows “why.”

Everything else is being successfully set up for an American totalitarian tyranny in the near future.

Only armed American patriots can screw up the whole dang shebang.
They absolutely MUST be made outlaws before Obama collapses the economy and takes control.

5 posted on 12/05/2011 5:07:52 AM PST by Happy Rain ("Only conservative blacks can be called the N word with impunity.")
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To: Travis McGee

Travis - where did you get that quote? I’ve been looking all over for it. I remember when obummer told it to brady, but I need to document it.

Thanks - rickyc


6 posted on 12/05/2011 5:18:07 AM PST by rickyc
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To: rickyc

That’s a paraphrase of this:

On March 30, the 30th anniversary of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, Jim Brady, who sustained a debilitating head wound in the attack, and his wife, Sarah, came to Capitol Hill to push for a ban on the controversial “large magazines.” Brady, for whom the law requiring background checks on handgun purchasers is named, then met with White House press secretary Jay Carney. During the meeting, President Obama dropped in and, according to Sarah Brady, brought up the issue of gun control, “to fill us in that it was very much on his agenda,” she said.

“I just want you to know that we are working on it,” Brady recalled the president telling them. “We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.”

Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/guns/2011/05/25/obama-were-working-gun-control-under-radar#ixzz1ffLvOCbZ


7 posted on 12/05/2011 5:20:46 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Happy Rain
This time it blew up on them. Rats take casualties and move on, re group and will be back again in later regimes to try this again.

Just like they did with health care

The Constitution be damned

8 posted on 12/05/2011 5:48:43 AM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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9 posted on 12/05/2011 5:56:04 AM PST by bcsco (Those who piled on Cain now wear the mark of Cain!)
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To: lowbridge

Bump


10 posted on 12/05/2011 5:58:52 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Travis McGee
“I just want you to know that we are working on it,” Brady recalled the president telling them. “We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.”

...All you need to know. But, as usual, nothing is being done. All that's left is the blood and burying the dead.

11 posted on 12/05/2011 7:43:55 AM PST by gargoyle (...Amendments 1 and 2, a well informed public and a well regulated militia...)
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To: lowbridge

Adding a few keywords to help archive the thread; fastandfurious, gunrunner, gunwalker, obama, atf, fbi, dea and doj.


12 posted on 12/05/2011 1:40:00 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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