White House Mocks Issa Fast & Furious Investigation as "Political Theater"

CBS News via Twitter ^ | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 | Mark Knoller

[kristinn]

WH Comms Dir @pfeiffer44 slams Oversight Cmte for pursuing "a politically-motivated, taxpayer-funded election-year fishing expedition."

In written statement, @pfeiffer44 says House GOP should work with Presd Obama "to create more jobs, not more political theater.”

[Crucial]

If it was only political theater, a trifle, why then invoke executive privilege at all?

[BlatherNaut]

If the MSM helps in the cover up, will anyone respect journalists - ever again?

No one with a brain. But that's already the case.

[World'sGoneInsane]

Of course there was no statement such as, “If I had a son, he’d look just like Brian Terry.”

[Crucial]

Whether Nixon gave approval or knew about the break-in beforehand, no one died. In F&F people died including one American.

It's interesting that when Mexicans serve no political purpose, their deaths don't matter.

[hattend]

It was Nixon’s arrogant attitude that brought him down.

It was the news media that brought Nixon down. Obama doesn't have to contend with them.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Could all be a ruse to replace Obama with Hillary to go against Romney. Ugg.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

[Crucial]

Whether Nixon gave approval or knew about the break-in beforehand, no one died. In F&F people died including, including two Americans: one border control agent and another officer. The total death toll is about 200 people according to Issa and seems consistent with what I’ve read.

[Carry_Okie]

This is why allowing the MSM to promulgate the lies unchecked, calling GunWalker a "botched operation" or "started under the Bush administration," has been so incredibly destructive.

These memes leave no room for the true story, that the ATF FORCED gun dealers to comply with a criminal supply system for Mexican gangs trained by the US Military. That the ATF made NO EFFORT to track the weapons, UNLIKE the Bush administration Gun Runner program which had been DISCONTINUED.

Once those two facts are established, there is no possibility of claiming that this was some kind of "botched" sting operation. At that point, one MUST ask, what was the true purpose of such a program so obviously illegal that it had to be authorized from the White House.

When one recognizes the claims made by Hillary and others that '80% of the guns supplying Mexican gangs originate int he Untied States" and that Los Zetas were the principal beneficiaries, the same gang stocking weapons in the Los Agneles area, the resulting obvious purposes of GunWalker were two:

1. To overturn the Second Amendment by instituting the UN Small Arms Treaty under the claim that Americans were supplying the bulk of weapons to those gangs.
2. To arm our enemies and disarm Americans making them ripe for conquest in the American Southwest.

[BlatherNaut]

It's interesting that when Mexicans serve no political purpose, their deaths don't matter.

Their political purpose in this case was to serve as exploitable murder statistics.

[rawhide]

What is obamma trying to hide?

I read or maybe heard today that is this F&F investigation is not completed by the House committee, by election day, then the investigation has to stop, and the new Congress will have to restart it again next year? Any truth to that?

[Resettozero]

If the MSM helps in the cover up, will anyone respect journalists - ever again?

Is this a serious question? Are you really not aware of the degree of respect that today's journalists receive from FReepers? Or did you forget the "/sarcasm" indicator? Please, what is your answer?

[Eleutheria5]

And The One said, “Let there be jobs!” and there would have been, if only those poopy pants Republicans had agreed to spend more money again. And The One saw the jobs, that they were good, and signed an executive order to create them and spend the money anyway.

[arasina]

"With millions of Americans still struggling to pay the bills...President Obama spends time dining with Wall Streeters and the Hollywood bunch in between games of golf and making sure our national security secrets are leaked in the proper order. He also finds a little time to determine each day's drone kills. He really knows his "political theatre". It's a new reality show called "Elect Me Again No Matter What".

[Candor7]

White House Mocks Issa Fast & Furious Investigation as “Political Theater”
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Lets talk about who died because of this Fast and Furious political theater.

Oh I Forgot! fascists don’t really count death as something which needs investigation,or that a citizen has a right to live?

The Obama administration deserves Americas utter contempt and hatred.

[TigersEye]

A Congressional oversight committee merely asking for some documents is a "witch hunt" and "political theater?" After a year and half of stonewalling, false documents being submitted and an endless internal investigation?

I guess the "transparent" 0bungles administration is above answering any questions about any subject extending to every department under The Won!?!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Figures

[Raycpa]

Nixon’s sin was greater. He was a wildly popular republican.

[livius]

Obama has no use for Mexico or Mexicans. Everything to him is grist for his personal-power mill.

Mexico - and I mean the people on the streets - is furious about this and it's big news down there. Of course, you'd never know, because our press doesn't bother with Mexico unless there's a gang riot.

Bambi is trying to bail by blaming it on Bush. But comparing Bush's anti-gang sting program, Wide Receiver, which had the support of the Mexican government and the supervision of various US and Mexican federal agencies, with Bambi's anti-gun free-for-all, which the Mexican government never knew about until Issa opened his hearings, is not going to save either Holder or Bambi.

I bet Hillary's revving her motors right about now.

[CodeToad]

“I think this is turning out better than Issa ever dreamed.”

Perhaps, but Issa was given BOXES of paperwork in 2010 from an unknown source. I suspect he knows what to do about it.