The Fast And Furious Scandal Is Turning Into President Obama's Watergate [Woodward and Bernstein?]

Telegraph(UK) ^ | June 21, 2012

[Steelfish]

The Fast And Furious Scandal Is Turning Into President Obama's Watergate

Tim Stanley June 21.

Obama is repeating many of the mistakes that led to Nixon's resignation in 1974

Fast and furious hasn’t been discussed a lot in the mainstream media, which is why the facts can seem so preposterous when you read them for the first time. But the story is slowly unraveling and the public is catching up with the madness. On Wednesday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt over his decision to withhold documents related to the “gun walking” operation – documents that President Obama tried to keep secret by invoking executive privilege.

The question of why the Prez intervened in this way will surely hang over the investigation and the White House for many months to come. Be patient, conservatives. It took nearly eight months for the Watergate break in to become a national news story. But when it finally did, it toppled a President.

Here’s what Fast and Furious is all about – and for the uninitiated, be prepared for a shock. In 2009, the US government instructed Arizona gun sellers illegally to sell arms to suspected criminals. Agents working for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were then ordered not to stop the sales but to allow the arms to “walk” across the border into the arms of Mexican drug-traffickers. According to the Oversight Committee’s report, “The purpose was to wait and watch, in hope that law enforcement could identify other members of a trafficking network and build a large, complex conspiracy case…. [The ATF] initially began using the new gun-walking tactics in one of its investigations to further the Department’s strategy. The case was soon renamed ‘Operation Fast and Furious.”

[saintgermaine]

It is too bad that most Americans are either too dumb or ignorant to see through this charade which was all about gun control in this country. I still remember Hildebeast exclaiming that the violence we see in Mexico is fueled by guns illegally entering Mexico from the US and is another reason why the US needs much tighter gun control and never mind the Second Amendment.

What she forgot to mention is that this whole scheme or charade was cooked up and initiated by a bunch of domestic socialistic crooks whose main target is or was nothing less than to invalidate the second amendment and remove as many guns as possible from private ownership eventually allowing and giving government total control of a defenseless public.

There is nothing new and unique about this process as it has been done and implemented time and time again and ignorant people keep falling for it. Once the truth about this ruse surfaced, luckily exposed by Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa, all of a sudden there was not another peep heard from Hildebeast.

There is little doubt in my mind that The Anointed One told Eric the Beholder “Brother just keep on stalling, once I get re-elected by all those ignoramuses you will be home free and it all blows over” You want to bet?

[opentalk]

This Obama executive order targets Zetas but no mention of Sinaloa

President Obama Declares Transnational Organized Crime Threat A National Emergency

..The executive order freezes U.S. property and assets owned by four major international criminal organizations —including Mexico's powerful Los Zetas criminal network —and anyone who conspires with them.

[opentalk]

One members of the committee this week indicated some of the proceedings, charges expire with a new congress (paraphrase)

[cuban leaf]

“The Press” now includes more than just the MSM. This is a good thing.

But the real question is, will the new press be enough?

[opentalk]

Member, correction

[Scotswife]

wow!

[N. Theknow]

Telegraph(UK) - Just doing the job American Media refuses to do.

[Scotswife]

Look at post 54 and post 70.
I’m beginning to wonder if they were funneling drug money into democrat coffers.

[allmendream]

How stupid would someone have to be to think that Bush was responsible and that Holder refuses to hand over documents and 0bama exerts Executive privilege because otherwise the documents would clearly implicate Bush?

Huh? Is liberals dat stupid?

Bush is to blame. So they are holding back the documents, because they will show that Bush is to blame.

Yeahhhhhhhh. It's like a conspiracy within a conspiracy to conceal the conspiracy! Pass the bong dude!

[a fool in paradise]

Present.
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The dog ate my homework.
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Bush’s fault.
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This is racist.
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It’s above my paygrade.

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“Worst president ever.”

And the deceitful nationally controlled (DNC) media hel’ped.

[Eva]

I think that the biggest difference between the Gun Runner Operation and the Watergate Operation is that Nixon didn’t have prior knowledge of the crime. I think that Obama was in on the GunRunner Operation from the get go.

I think that is the reason for the Executive Privilege. I think that Holder told Obama that if he didn’t invoke Executive Privilege, he was going to take Obama down with him.

[GilesB]

But the ATF was a principal in th SALE - not in the killings. Two distinct crimes.

[TigersEye]

Tracing the arms became difficult, until they starting appearing at bloody crime scenes.

Difficult? lol

Pretty much impossible when you use no tracking devices, have no one at all follow the gun runners and tell no one on the Mexican side of the border what you're doing. Unless you're some kind of psychic who does remote viewing you pretty much have to wait for a bad guy to get caught or killed with one of the guns you let "walk."

[TigersEye]

You sell a gun to someone you know wants to commit murder, he then goes and kills someone with that gun and then see what the local police and DA do with you.