Dan Collins February 23, 2012 Featured Propaganda
It turns out that another ATF-walked gun was used in the murder of ICE Agent Jaime Zapata and the wounding of fellow agent Victor Avila.
Zapata was investigating Fast and Furious.....
Posted on 12/28/2013 6:54:37 AM PST by Islander7
John Dodson, the federal agent who blew the lid off the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” gun-walking scandal, claims the FBI had ties to the men who killed U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in 2010 near Nogales, Ariz. In fact, Dodson says the Mexican bandits who gunned down Terry were working for FBI operatives and had been sent to the border to do a “drug rip-off” using intelligence gathered by the DEA.
Dodson, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said he doesn’t think the FBI was part of the rip-off crew, but the agency was “directing the rip crew.” The explosive claims were made in an interview with The Arizona Republic this week and are already creating some waves across the Internet.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Dodson laid out a strategy in which federal law enforcement agencies, like the FBI, allow criminal activity in order to increase the clout of FBI informants embedded within cartel organizations.
“If they can get these guys (informants) in a position so they’re closer to the Tier 1 or Tier 2 guy (in the cartel), they’ll do it. They want to make these guys (operatives) rock stars,” he said.
The alleged border “rip-off” that ended in Terry’s death is one of these situations, Dodson claims.
Ping
sigh...what a bunch of scum.
The next GOP President should extradite the Atty General to Mexico to face Mexican justice. We will find that there is political correctness south of the border as well. They don’t want him.
5.56mm
What difference does it make
Men who were OK burning down a church packed full of people, men who would shoot in the head a mommy carrying her baby —would they do this also..?
Absolutely...! This was probably fairly tame compared to the stuff we’re not hearing about.
The rot we see now started MUCH earlier than most think.
Ours is a criminal government of OCCUPATION.
THIS is what the failed drug prohibition has come to.
Do not get Issa to investigate this.
He hasn’t finished an investigation yet.
But, but Issa will gradually turn the public’s opinion against the demoncrats, which will mean that the repulican’ts will take all the organs of government in the next election, which will mean NOTHING!
I would now write /s, but I don’t think I’m actually being sarcastic...
On a serious note, the entire federal government deserves to be in prison for a damn long time at this point.
That explains the numerous attempts to prevent further investigations.
Who ordered this...? Get NAMES
“Ripping” just one dealer can yield more cash than they'd earn in a lifetime.
There is so much cash in the drug market that cartels have influence in the highest levels of every government. Imagine bootleggers like the Kennedys but with 10,000 times more profit.
Do not get Issa to investigate this.
He hasn’t finished an investigation yet.
Yep. Much talk; no action.
This might also explain why there was an order of "Executive Priviledge" comming out of the Spite House .
and then the stalled invesitgations in Congress.
Just more " bumps in the road "... with no ccountability !
(correction):Just more “ bumps in the road “... with no accountability !
Dan Collins February 23, 2012 Featured Propaganda
It turns out that another ATF-walked gun was used in the murder of ICE Agent Jaime Zapata and the wounding of fellow agent Victor Avila.
Zapata was investigating Fast and Furious.....
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, author of the newly-released book “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away From It All,” left his post after a 12-year run to run for Congress as a Republican, turning his back on President Barack Obama and the “fog of scandals” he believes have enveloped the Obama administration.
Bongino sat down with The Daily Caller and dished on the politicized state of the Department of Justice, the reforms he believes will stifle corruption in the burgeoning federal bureaucracies and the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance sweeps.
DC: What’s your opinion of the Obama administration’s Department of Justice and Eric Holder’s tenure, and the difference between finding actual criminal cases and cases that are just neatly packaged?
Bongino: “It’s a travesty, what’s happened to the Department of Justice. It’s an actual travesty. It’s political malpractice at its worst. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Lady Justice has got a blindfold on. That has not been the case for this administration. Think about the things they’ve wasted their time on.
Political statements about the voter intimidation, Fast and Furious, hiding documents from Congress — the most recent scandal, and I think the most egregious, is going after Louisiana for the school voucher program. … This Department of Justice is a Department of Injustice.
It’s just sad what has happened — I’m stunned that more people have not come forward. Because I get, phone calls, emails, texts from people all the time, who — I cannot express to you the level of frustration amongst federal agents and administrative employees. People are really fed up with this administration and the way they politicize things. I think the DOJ is just the tip of the spear.”
DC: Do you have a remedy for this besides bringing in a new DOJ, reforms that could be put in place to prevent this sort of politicization?
Bongino: “From a larger, umbrella view, the reason we have this is the walling off and these individual silos amongst this multitude of alphabet soup of federal agencies out there. What it does is give the Department of Justice unusual power. If we were to reform the system, put everyone under a blanket law enforcement umbrella, and then a blanket intelligence umbrella, and then had independent — completely independent, there’s no cross-pollination, there’s no transfer of personnel — and independent, third wing, so law enforcement intel, and then an inspector general that was completely separate and distinct from everyone else.
They would actually be able to oversee elements like the DOJ and law enforcement and government by discretion. The way it’s set up now, structurally, it’s impossible. The attorney general is an appointee of the president and his loyalties are to the president first, which I think Holder’s are, and not to the people. And I think you’re going to have a very serious problem. And there is no way to prevent it if the media just goes along.”
DC: So you have tens of thousands of federal agents investigating small crimes and ignoring larger ones like the Boston bombing. Does this puts us at risk for not only corruption in departments, but actual attacks?
Bongino: “Absolutely. This is a national security issue. I mean, think about it — we’re raiding Les Paul guitar centers for importing wood that violates a restriction that nobody even knows or cares about, while a known terrorist, a Tsarnaev brother, is in our terrorist information database, goes back and forth [to Russia], and nobody even notices?
If this was a private company, there would be a mass firing. They would be selling off of branches, consolidation — none of this happens. And this is the sad part: We have just so accepted as the American citizenry government ineptitude. It’s ineptitude that — it doesn’t surprise anyone.
There’s no cattle prod. … It’s like that shirt I see all the time: ‘The beatings will continue until morale improves.’ That’s really what we’ve got to, a point where — you accept such levels of ineptitude these umbrella questions get lost, because it’s just assumed that that’s the way it is. And the umbrella questions of ‘Why do we have all of these agencies?’ Has anybody even thought of that?”
“This is bureaucratic investigative laziness at its worst. I’ve actually investigated these cases, so I’m speaking from first-hand experience. This whole position of lawmakers, bureaucrats, and some in the spy agency — not all — is that since we can’t reform government, we’re going to defualt to a collection mechanism on every American, because we can’t do anything to make things better at the margin. So we’re just with one big stroke of the pen collect [data] on every single American.
How any good conservative can defend this program is beyond me. If you give the government — I promise you, having been there as long as I have, I promise you it will be abused. Don’t think for a second that it won’t. It’s just a matter of when. The ‘if’ question is done, finished. It will be abused, I promise. The incentives are all wrong.”
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/22/former-secret-service-agent-bongino-holders-justice-dept-is-a-travesty/#ixzz2lTsQGwAG
Documents obtained in 2012 by Judicial Watch, pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, revealed that top political appointees at the DOJ were intimately involved in the decision to drop the voter intimidation lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party (NBPP).
That information conflicts with Holder’s testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies on March 1, 2011. “The decisions made in the New Black Panther Party case were made by career attorneys in the department. And beyond that, you know, if we’re going to look at the record, let’s look at it in its totality,” Holder contended.
The DOJ had initially refused to turn over the documents, contending they didn’t show “any political interference whatsoever.”
Judge Reggie B. Walton in Washington, D.C. District Court disagreed. Allowing the release of the documents on July 23, 2012, he declared that they “reveal that political appointees within DOJ were conferring about the status and resolution of the New Black Panther Party case in the days preceding the DOJ’s dismissal of claims in that case.
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