Posted on 02/14/2012 11:39:20 AM PST by marktwain
I think late January and February have been the busiest time for Operation Fast & Furious. The media still doesn’t give it proper coverage, especially this news: On February 4th, Mexico arrests a key figure in Fast & Furious. Not only is he a key person in Fast & Furious, but he was also a top lieutenant to El Chapo. I first found out about it on Borderland Beat, a great website keeping us up to date about the drug war in Mexico. The Los Angeles Times reported it on February 7th and my colleague AWR Hawkins published commenrary on February 8th. Silence from media.
This is HUGE for Mexico and for us. The suspect is Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo aka “El Marrufo” or “El Jaguar.” He was the head of la Gente Nueva in Chihuahua and the Sinaloa cartel’s top man in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s most dangerous city.
He was also wanted in the US for drug trafficking and the recipient of high powered weapons from Operation Fast and Furious. He owned the home that was raided in April 2011 that had the guns from Fast & Furious.
This is GREAT news for everyone in America and Mexico, including Mr. Holder — yet I don’t hear anything from the media. A Google search yielded just three actual posts on this subject.
Thank you LA Times for reporting this, but this is another case that confirms my suspicions: If the AP doesn’t write about it the majority of the Old Media will ignore it.
“On February 4th, Mexico arrests a key figure in Fast & Furious”
I was kind of hoping that the arrestee WOULD be Holder.
Is that a yellow stool pigeon?
Gunwalker ping.
Has Mexico ever formally complained about GunWalker and our “news” media just hasn’t reported on it (to protect their boy king)?
It’s a singing canary.
November 17, 2011
Mexico’s attorney general, Marisela Morales, told Mexican congressmen that she has asked the United States to extradite six suspects of providing guns to drug cartels.
Under the Operation Fast and Furious, providing guns to drug cartels was a practice approved by US agencies. According to CNN, more than 2,000 guns were trafficked and some estimates indicate that more than 200 Mexicans and several American agents were killed with these guns.
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Mrs. Morales said that Mexican authorities will dig deep on its investigations trying to discover how and why the Operation Fast and Furious happened. One can only wonder what this would mean, as The Daily Caller reported yesterday that 43 members of the US Congress are calling for attorney general Eric Holder’s immediate resignation.
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“Mexico’s attorney general, Marisela Morales, told Mexican congressmen that she has asked the United States to extradite six suspects of providing guns to drug cartels.
And just who are those six unindentified suspects? Inquiring minds wants to know.
Considering all of the Mexican people who have been out right murdered as a result of the F&F program, Mexico’s AG should indict Holder and obozo. I never thought I’d say this but Mexico’s AG should use Interpol and or the world court if necessary. Maybe that action would be deemed as news worthy.
Wow. From Mexico, they know who to go after, while Holder's Hold-Outs spin and weave and George Stepinafuss kisses butt.
Why? It's simple... The Obama regime needed evidence to "prove" the fraudulent claim that legal firearms from the US were being trafficked to Mexican drug cartels. After all, they weren't able to actually produce many to begin with. So what better way than to actually traffic the guns directly to the cartels! What could possibly go wrong? After all, it was all for good intentions... To subvert and eliminate that pesky 2nd Amendment of the Constitution.
I just get angry when I hear F&F referred to as a "botched operation." The only part that was "botched" was the fact that word of it got out, because of whistle blowers within the government who could no longer live with the tyrannical actions of the government.
Mark
The Mexican political establishment, the Mexican Press and the Mexican People are furious and mad with rage over the hundreds of people and officials that have been gunned down with American high powered assault weapons. They have been screaming about this in their press for over a year.
But you hear nothing here because the Mexicans here in the USA are bought and paid for by the democrat party.
And the American high powered assault weapons found their way into Mexico using means facilitated by BATF. This is a significant point of fact in understanding the justifiable rage of the Mexican People. Because Mexico actually controls its own borders much tighter than US Americans control theirs. So it would be considered a catastrophic failure in Mexican government security if such weapons had been smuggled into Mexico by non-US means.
Most of the cartel killings in Mexico are decapitation, torture, burning, handgun shots through the head and mouth and some shots with rifles taken from military soldiers. But nothing on the scale of thousands of high powered automatic assault weapons has ever existed.
Mexico knows they have a problem with the Cartels and the horrible killings. To think that the US Government is arming the Cartels with high powered weapons is to them beyond outrageous.
So to answer your question, yes, there is a coverup in the press.
Shhhhh. If a tree falls in the forest....ping.
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Ping
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I would just like to see one word, one article written in ONE Ohio newspaper that uses the words Fast & Furious in any context. Any.
The mass coverup by the MSM is mind-bogling. In a sane world, there would be trials of the highest-ranking officials, both for murder and treason. The MSM would be reporting, not covering up, news critical to the survival of our Republic.
Can you imagine if the situation was reversed? If the Mexican government had provided thousands of high powered assault weapons to drug gangs in the USA that resulted in killing hundreds of Americans?
Spot on. Sing, birdy, sing!
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