Posted on 01/06/2012 11:01:26 AM PST by neverdem
The Justice Department sent nearly 500 pages of documents to Republican lawmakers Thursday that suggest the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives may have used questionable tactics and lost track of American-made weapons in a gun trafficking investigation on the Mexican border as early as 2006.
The documents sent to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) could add a new dimension to a political controversy that's raged on Capitol Hill for a year. Issa and other Republican lawmakers have accused the Obama administration of acting recklessly by losing track of almost 2,000 guns on the Southwest border in a botched ATF operation called Fast and Furious. Two of those weapons were recovered near the body of slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010.
The newly released email messages and briefing papers suggest there may be similarities between the Obama operation "Fast and Furious" and an earlier effort during the Bush administration to target the flow of guns into Mexico. The papers include several communications between ATF supervisors and Justice Department prosecutors in Arizona who were trying to build a case against "a very powerful, aggressive and violent" Mexican drug cartel in an earlier operation dubbed "Wide Receiver."
A senior Obama administration Justice Department official who briefed reporters on the documents said the papers show law enforcement officers in the Bush years could have filed criminal conspiracy and false statements charges against lower level figures in the gun trafficking operation, but they decided to watch and wait until they could move higher up the chain of command.
"We want the... manufacturing and distribution pieces also – we want it all," an ATF official wrote in March 2006.
The case ultimately languished in the U.S. Attorney's office in Arizona until the Obama administration sent help from Washington D.C. and indictments were handed down in May and October 2010. Six people have been convicted in connection with Wide Receiver, the senior Justice Department official said.
The new disclosures could be featured in a Feb. 2 hearing where Attorney General Eric Holder will square off against Issa over the ATF failures. The last time the two men met on Capitol Hill, fireworks erupted, when Issa likened Holder to the Nixon era Attorney General John Mitchell and Holder reached back to the era of Joseph McCarthy and asked Issa whether he "had any shame."
Without tracking devices in the guns, how can Holder even claim that this was a TRACKING program?
And without informing Mexico of the project, how can Holder deny that this is an act of war? Obama just signed authorization for him to use war powers on anybody who materially supports our terrorist enemies - and yet Holder and his cronies are arming the drug cartels waging war against the Mexican government.
But officer, I think the guy in front of me was speeding too.
LOL. This scandal is about to blow up and destroy Holder so the Libs and NPR are in a panic to give him any cover they can. Fast and Furious “Tactics”. What the Hell does that mean? That could be anything.
National
Politburo
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NPR LIES!!!
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WIDE RECEIVER AND FAST AND FURIOUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESZcRMCBKk&feature=player_embedded#!
Project Gunrunner started in 2005 under Dubya and was with the full knowledge and cooperation of the Mexican government. It resulted in 1,400 arrests and no deaths.
Fast and Furious started in October 2009, eight months into the Obama Administration -- without the knowledge of the Mexican government and over the objections to LEOs on the ground -- and this resulted in 1,800 weapons, most of which were semi-auto rifles, safely in the hands of Mexican drug dealers, and who knows how many dead.
There is a difference.
They can't sit on it any longer...they're trying to spray a lot of air-freshener in the room before the public smells the fart.
Nothing but bullsh!t.
LLS
npr doing what npr does best...ping.
Apples and oranges. One was a law enforcement effort to catch criminals. One was a huge scam to attack the 2nd Amendment, and it has caused the deaths of many innocent people.
“suggest…
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The exact point I came here to make...Congress became democratic in 2006...
Except Susie didn’t steal anything.
The only logical conclusion after reading this is that NPR is functioning as a pro-Obama election website, printing propaganda for their master.
No rational person could make the confusion that is in this report.
Intentional or not - their bias is now past reality phase and into treason/sedition phase.
The only time the MSM reports on FnF is when there is some imagined link to W’s administration. Otherwise, the rule is hear no evil, see no evil, do no evil. I hate these wicked people and their agenda with a passion.
Oh, and Johnny is a liar.
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11/09/2011
Fast and Furious Is Not a “Failed” Operation
Not if Democrats get their gun control laws after all.
by John Hayward
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47437
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November 28, 2011
Rep. Maloney Lies about Fast and Furious
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/rep_maloney_lies_about_fast_and_furious.html
“that suggest the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives may have used questionable tactics “
“suggest there may be similarities between the Obama operation “Fast and Furious” and an earlier effort during the Bush administration to target the flow of guns into Mexico. “
“show law enforcement officers in the Bush years could have filed criminal conspiracy and false statements charges “
and if my uncle had tits he’d be my aunt....
here’s hoping Issa takes this speculative BS and tells Holder and the criminal liberal media to shove it...
Neosocialist Propaganda Radio defending the Obyssmal administration again? House members: Defund NPR now.
There’s one basic difference: Bush was building a legitimate case against violent drug smugglers. Obama was building a case against gun dealers and the Second Amendment.
It’s not nice appointing a gangster to head the Department of Justice. Yes, there are precedents: Bobby Kennedy and Janet Reno. But none of them is in a class with Holder’s blatant thuggery.
And let’s never forget that Hillary was neck deep in this plot, too.
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