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The Truth About the Fast and Furious Scandal (Major MSM pushback)
Fortune - CNN ^
| Wednesday, June 27, 2012
| Katherine Eban
Posted on 06/27/2012 10:31:42 AM PDT by kristinn
A Fortune investigation reveals that the ATF never intentionally allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. How the world came to believe just the opposite is a tale of rivalry, murder, and political bloodlust.
In the annals of impossible assignments, Dave Voth's ranked high. In 2009 the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives promoted Voth to lead Phoenix Group VII, one of seven new ATF groups along the Southwest border tasked with stopping guns from being trafficked into Mexico's vicious drug war.
Some call it the "parade of ants"; others the "river of iron." The Mexican government has estimated that 2,000 weapons are smuggled daily from the U.S. into Mexico. The ATF is hobbled in its effort to stop this flow. No federal statute outlaws firearms trafficking, so agents must build cases using a patchwork of often toothless laws. For six years, due to Beltway politics, the bureau has gone without permanent leadership, neutered in its fight for funding and authority. The National Rifle Association has so successfully opposed a comprehensive electronic database of gun sales that the ATF's congressional appropriation explicitly prohibits establishing one.
Voth, 39, was a good choice for a Sisyphean task. Strapping and sandy-haired, the former Marine is cool-headed and punctilious to a fault. In 2009 the ATF named him outstanding law-enforcement employee of the year for dismantling two violent street gangs in Minneapolis. He was the "hardest working federal agent I've come across," says John Biederman, a sergeant with the Minneapolis Police Department. But as Voth left to become the group supervisor of Phoenix Group VII, a friend warned him: "You're destined to fail."
(Excerpt) Read more at features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; 2deadfeds; 300deadmexicans; atf; baldfacedlyingmedia; banglist; brianterry; corruption; dea; democratmedia; democrats; dhs; doj; enemedia; ericholder; fascistmedia; fastandfurious; fbi; fraud; guncontrol; gunrunner; gunwalker; gunwalkergate; holder; ice; liberalmedia; lyingmedia; mediabias; mediacorruption; msm; msmisajoke; murdergate; obama; obamedia; pravdamedia; propaganda; sorosmedia
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To: kristinn
You have to be real suspicious when an article purports to have the truth on the Gunwalkergate Scandal.
And doubly suspicious when they use the word intentionally in the subhead.
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posted on
06/27/2012 11:54:30 AM PDT
by
BerserkPatriot
(Why is the Democratic National Committee waging a War on liberty?)
To: kristinn
Let's remember
where, when, and who started all of this.
Let us ALL remember, Over a barrel? Meet White House gun policy adviser Steve Croley
By Jason Horowitz,
(excerpt) ... 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.
In the meeting, she said, Obama discussed how records get into the system and what can be done about firearms retailers.
Her husband specifically brought up the proposed ban on large magazine clips,
and she noted that even former vice president Dick Cheney had suggested that some restrictions on the clips might make sense.
He just laughed, Sarah Brady said approvingly of the president.
Both she and her husband, she emphasized, had absolute confidence that the president was committed to regulation.
In simpler, pre-administration times, so was the presidents point man.
In Croleys book, he argued that for all the healthy skepticism, in a complex world, regulation still amounted to the least-worst solution to pressing social problems.
Only the
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIF would arm U.S. Border Patrol Agent
Brian Terry with
less than lethal beanbag rounds.Read
Did flawed US policies play role in death of a border patrol agent?The Dec. 14 shootout in Peck Canyon, near Nogales, Ariz., occurred after border patrol agents halted a group of armed border bandits and fired at them with bean bag guns.
The bandits then opened fire with live bullets from AK-47 submachine guns, killing Mr. Terry.
Critics of US border patrol procedures, including Terry's family, say thatTerry, a former Marine, was operating under specific Department of Homeland Security (DHS) orders that required agents encountering suspected illegal immigrants on US soil to fire nonlethal bean bags before using live ammunition.
Also read Brian Terrys Killers Were Hunting Border Patrol Agents
You might be interested in the book below.
Fast and Furious:
Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up
by Katie Pavlich and Emily Durante
Overview
Two hundred and rising. That's the death tally for the Obama administration's "Operation Fast & Furious."
The program was supposedly designed to "win the drug war" by deliberately walking more than two thousand guns across the border to Mexico.
But instead of catching drug lords, "Operation Fast & Furious."Despite the protests of gun store owners and ATF whistle-blowers,
federal agents deliberately violated federal law -and common sense-
and wound up placing American weapons into the hands of Mexico's most violent criminals.
And when the guns started showing up at crime scenes-including the murder scene of a U.S. border patrol agent
-the cover-up began.
So reveals Townhall editor Katie Pavlich in her news-breaking exposé Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal.
While the White House has claimed ignorance of the program, Pavlich debunks their lies, denials and excuses
by demonstrating incontestable proofthat President Obama and Attorney General Holder did willfully and knowingly sanction the program in order to advance their anti-second amendment agenda.
A horrifying look at one of the bloodiest scandals in the history of the American presidency, Fast and Furious is this season's sensational, must-listen book that will rock America-and the Obama administration-to its core.
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posted on
06/27/2012 12:00:07 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die!)
To: kristinn
Going to be hard to claim it’s a “partisan fight” if the news stories about how many democrats are also going to vote for contempt tomorrow.....
To: kristinn
My friends . . . welcome the Fantasy Island . . . .
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posted on
06/27/2012 1:10:48 PM PDT
by
RatRipper
(I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
To: 6SJ7
LOL Seriously, you're right, there's not a lick of difference in the maturity level.
The 0bama WH is the Sitcom Presidency. Winning!
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:32:53 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: kristinn; All
“... A spokesman for the House Oversight Committee sends along this response to the story:
Fortunes story is a fantasy made up almost entirely from the accounts of individuals involved in the reckless tactics that took place in Operation Fast and Furious. It contains factual errors including the false statement that Chairman Issa has called for Attorney General Holders resignation and multiple distortions. It also hides critical information from readers including a report in the Wall Street Journal indicating that its primary sources may be facing criminal charges. Congressional staff gave Fortune Magazine numerous examples of false statements made by the storys primary source and the magazine did not dispute this information. It did not, however, explain this material to its readers. The one point of agreement the Committee has with this story is its emphasis on the role Justice Department prosecutors, not just ATF agents, played in guns being transferred to drug cartels in Mexico. The allegations made in the story have been examined and rejected by congressional Republicans, Democrats, and the Justice Department.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/304142/did-fast-and-furious-not-happen-robert-verbruggen
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posted on
06/27/2012 3:27:01 PM PDT
by
Qbert
("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
To: kristinn
If being a partisan hack is a crime, we’d have to round up most of the media.
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posted on
06/27/2012 3:35:01 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(THIS SUCKS)
To: HiJinx
Hell, I recently bought an EOTech sight and that is prohibited from being exported.
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posted on
06/27/2012 3:49:42 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
To: HiJinx
Hell, I recently bought an EOTech sight and that is prohibited from being exported.
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posted on
06/27/2012 3:49:53 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
To: kristinn
If they broke it into chapters, added a few dozen unnecessary side plots (lunch menus, description of the drive from Scottsdale to Paradise Valley prison to interview suspects, etc.):
And, if they made lead case agent, Hope MacAllister, 41,... tough, squared-away Phoenix veteran...
an uber hot late twenties blond to provide a romantic interest for Dave Voth, 39...Strapping and sandy-haired, the former Marine (and) outstanding law-enforcement employee of the year (and) the "hardest working federal agent I've come across...
Whoever penned this opus would have a decent novel, pure fantasy, but salable.
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posted on
06/27/2012 4:01:36 PM PDT
by
norton
To: Yosemitest
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posted on
06/27/2012 7:54:10 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: prairiebreeze
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posted on
06/27/2012 8:03:27 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
To: pallis
If we guard the border, how will the Sinolas get the drugs to Chicago?
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posted on
06/28/2012 12:32:25 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
To: rockinqsranch
I must protest giving any kind of credit for being a good liar.
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posted on
06/28/2012 3:29:43 AM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
(Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
To: kristinn
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posted on
07/03/2012 9:52:44 AM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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