Posted on 01/20/2016 5:12:10 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
In yet another election year scandal sure to be downplayed by the mainstream media, news broke overnight that a "massive" .50 caliber rifle intended to be a defense against helicopter gunships that was found at the hideout of notorious drug lord El Chapo's hideout was sold under the disastrous 'Fast and Furious' program!
Fox News' William La Jeunesse reports:
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As RedState readers know, this news comes just hours after a judge ruled Obama couldn't claim executive privilege to cover up the scandal anymore.
The feds are still checking out all the weapons from El Chapo's drug den so it is not yet known how many other guns there came from the U.S. But hey, at least Democrats are working diligently to take your guns away. Better yours than nobody's right?
Fox News adds this awesome bit at the end of the story:....
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(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Just finished reading “Guns of August” by Barbara Tuchman. That mortar was used to reduce Belgian fortresses. It’s just the way the liberal MSM screams about guns; totally whacked out.
oops, better nix the attention on capturing el chumpo.
The Barrett was in the pictures realeased by the Mexican Govt.
The Fast and Furious gun-smuggling scandal is one of those stories that the government and the media declared over...that wasn’t, or isn’t, actually over.
Here’s a nice example:
A .50-caliber rifle found at Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s hideout in Mexico was funneled through the gun-smuggling investigation known as Fast and Furious, sources confirmed Tuesday to Fox News. A .50-caliber is a massive rifle that can stop a car, or as it was intended, take down a helicopter.
After the raid on Jan. 8 in the city of Los Mochis that killed five of his men and wounded one Mexican marine, officials found a number of weapons inside the house Guzman was staying, including the rifle, officials said.
When agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives checked serial numbers of the eight weapons found in his possession, they found one of the two .50-caliber weapons traced back to the ATF program, sources said.
Also, did you remember this? I didn’t.
This week the scandal took on a new dimension with the revelation that Nadir Soofi, one of two Muslim terrorists killed attempting to murder attendees of a “Draw Muhammad” cartoon contest held in Texas in May, had acquired one of the guns he owned as a result of the Fast and Furious operation. This meant that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was in the position of indirectly selling Islamic terrorists one of the weapons they may have used in an attack on Americans on American soil.
I wrote after the Inspector General’s report came out:
The inspector general’s report concludes that they can find no evidence Holder knew about Fast and Furious until well after Terry’s death, but... well, the circumstances of Holder being so out of the loop, so in the dark about a major operation certainly appear unusual, perhaps to the point of straining credulity. The report states:
>>>”We found it troubling that a case of this magnitude and that affected Mexico so significantly was not directly briefed to the Attorney General. We would usually expect such information to come to the Attorney General through the Office of the Deputy Attorney General...[Holder] was not told in December 2010 about the connection between the firearms found at the scene of the shooting and Operation Fast and Furious. Both Acting Deputy Attorney General Grindler and Counsel to the Attorney General and Deputy Chief of Staff Wilkinson were aware of this significant and troubling information by December 17, 2010, but did not believe the information was sufficiently important to alert the Attorney General about it or to make any further inquiry regarding this development.”<<<
Not “sufficiently important”? Baffling. Maddening. Some might even say, “implausible”...
Repeatedly, everyone under Holder seems to do everything possible to make sure he isn’t informed about an operation that, in the words of the IG report, failed “to adequately consider the risk to public safety in the United States and Mexico”. In fact, information about the program went all the way to Holder’s office - but somehow, the memos, emails and other communications never reached the man himself. It’s as if he wasn’t there. From the IOG report, again:
>>>”As we describe below, we identified information regarding Operation Fast and Furious that reached the Office of the Attorney General in 2010 but not Attorney General Holder himself.”<<<
Well. If you”re wondering if this is covered by some sort of obscure procedure or rules, it isn’t:
>>>”[Holder] should have been informed by no later than December 17, 2010, that two firearms recovered at the Terry murder scene were linked to an ATF firearms trafficking investigation.... We found that although [Holder’s then deputy-chief-of-staff Monty] Wilkinson forwarded to Holder during the afternoon of December 15 three emails from the US Attorney’s Office providing further details about the shooting and law enforcement efforts to find and arrest the suspects, he did not notify the Attorney General of the revelation that two weapons found at the murder scene were linked to a suspect in an ATF firearms trafficking investigation.”<<<
See, this all occurred at a time when out-of-control, unaccountable law-enforcement officials wasn’t a priority to the Left. It is now, but, eh, sorry, you missed the news cycle.”
I’m not a gunsmith, but I’ll go out on a limb and say absolutely.
“Weren’t those guns supposed to have had trackers on them to allow the feds to find cartel members?”
Nope. Not in the Obama administration. They did not even tell the Mexican government what they were doing.
The only “tracking” that was done was to show the numbers that were involved in Mexican crime after the crimes had been committed.
So does Trey Gowdy. So does Jeff Sessions, (who I have much respect for).
It hasn’t made any difference.
Ted Cruz being President isn’t going to change any of this either. It will all be swept under that rug from hell itself that’s in the Congressinal office building where everything else gets swept.
You laid it out perfectly. It’s an insidious criminal program designed to undermine our 2nd Amendment. People should be going to jail for this.
Mike Vanderbeough at Sipsey Street Irregulars and David Codrea exposed this criminal scheme when it was happening.
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/
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See: David Codrea’s Journalist Guides:
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I believe F&F was a sinister plot by 0dunga to FOMENT VIOLENCE IN MEXICO in order to trigger a mass migration into the United States, just as 0dunga's refusal to seriously assault ISIS while at the same time arming Anti-Assad rebels was done to STOKE THE CIVIL WAR in order to trigger a mass migration into Europe.
King 0dunga, the KING of mass migrations!
Great post. I’d like to hear your words coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth so that the rest of America can hear them.
FReepers have the smartest ways of saying stuff. More camels, indeed.
THIS is why we need a Donald Trump. No one else can get attention to these scandals.
“It’s fortunate that Ted Cruz understands law (quite well) and how to prosecute (lots of wins) cases of this complexity.”
It’s not going to be the job of the new president to lead any prosecution teams. So what matters is the WILL to have others in the employ of the government be empowered to effectively prosecute the criminals from the “Obama Years.” Whoever is elected needs to make these prosecutions one of the key elements of their administration’s objectives. People need to see that the criminal element that has existed in our government is being rooted out and incarcerated. None of the bull$hit about letting anyone “off” for the “greater good.” So while it’s nice that Cruz understands the law, it’s not an imperative that gives him any preference. FWIW, I’d rather NOT have a lawyer for president. There are too many of the bastards in our government already, with those nine worthless turds over at the SCOTUS heading my list! The law should be a tool, and not a be all and end all in, and of itself. It’s the equivalent of the a$$holes in the Senate clucking about the “preservation of the institution.” Like somehow it matters more about the “institution” than what it’s supposed to be doing to better our lives and solve our national problems!
That was the main use. The Germans also used one against the Russians in WWII. Incredible weapons.
Yes I know. That’s why i was being sarcastic.
if your meaning is that our gov wanted to use the crimes that would be committed with those guns as a means to institute gun control than I agree with you.
I think that was the purpose.
I like to think of the 30mm cannon on the Warthog as a massive gun.
Those libtards think any gun larger than a shotgun is massive.
YEP
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