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Mexico asks U.S. for answers over historic gun-running row
Grauniad ^ | May 8, 2020 | Dave Graham

Posted on 05/10/2020 6:14:47 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck

Mexico’s president on Friday urged the United States to shed light on a gun-running sting that caused bilateral friction under the Obama presidency, questioning the behavior of past U.S. administrations for the third time this week.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fastandfurious
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To: fishtank

i heard gunwalker was a program under Bush that actually had guns with tracking devices inserted used to find gang headquarters for LEO.


21 posted on 05/10/2020 7:03:03 AM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: bdfromlv

True and it was a massive failure. The batteries in the tracking devices were depleted before they could be utilized.


22 posted on 05/10/2020 7:05:58 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: dila813

And Holder


23 posted on 05/10/2020 7:12:54 AM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Cheap Chinese batteries.


24 posted on 05/10/2020 7:28:08 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: bdfromlv; fishtank

The gunrunning program started in the Bush administration was shut down almost immediately when it was determined that they could not trace the guns as well as they thought they could. When the Obama administration‘s atrocities with “fast and furious” became known, the media (up to its usual tricks) said that it was a program that started under the Bush administration. They were very different.


25 posted on 05/10/2020 7:29:18 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: mad_as_he$$
The batteries in the tracking devices were depleted before they could be utilized.

They should have installed solar panels to keep the batteries charged! /s

26 posted on 05/10/2020 7:32:53 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Is it time Claire?)
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To: BlackbirdSST

lol...


27 posted on 05/10/2020 7:37:29 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: moovova

“My personal advice President Trump? Cooperate fully with the Mexicans.”

CURSES!! You came up with just what I was going to post.


28 posted on 05/10/2020 7:38:05 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: Paine in the Neck

Excellent. Give them everything. And the the Mexican Government that we would expedite any extradition requests for all who were involved, including Eric Holder.

L


29 posted on 05/10/2020 7:39:36 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: CodeToad

“Mexico should indict Holder, then Trump should hand him over.”

BRILLIANT IDEA!!


30 posted on 05/10/2020 7:39:37 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: Paine in the Neck

The Kenyanesian Usurpation was bad for everyone around the world.

Our Constitution says natural born citizen.

Obama is not one.

Violating the Constitution used to be a big deal until everybody got involved in doing it.


31 posted on 05/10/2020 7:42:10 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Operation Fast & Furious had as its central purpose the subversion of the US Constitution. The program’s strategy was to gin up a furor over guns sourced in the US being used in Mexican crime so that the US public could be stampeded into restricting the 2nd Amendment. Since few such guns were being used in Mexico more had to be supplied. They also had to show up at crime scenes so that they could be traced back to the US to ‘prove’ the Obama administration’s assertions.

F&F was a program cynically designed to result in Mexican deaths - so that ‘evil’ US-sourced guns could be found at the crime scenes and US gun laws could be blamed for the carnage. Holder, Napolitano, Hillary and Obama and a host of their minions cooked up this program knowing that Mexicans would die - in fact, needing Mexicans to die for this scheme to work. The Obama administration was cynically willing to slaughter Mexicans to accomplish their political purposes.
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All true except I don’t think Janet Napolitano or Judge Napolitano were involved.


32 posted on 05/10/2020 7:44:47 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: dila813
There is a US/Mexico Treaty that states government officials above a certain level cannot be extridicted to the other country.

The level included then AG Holder.

33 posted on 05/10/2020 7:46:54 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore<p> sure)
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To: Levy78

I want answers on why 25mm Mexican nationals are in my country.
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Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama were following the GHW Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA).

We wouldn’t vote for the New World Order so they had to import people who would.


34 posted on 05/10/2020 7:48:20 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: libstripper

F&F had long been a festering sore. Time to yank the scab off.


35 posted on 05/10/2020 8:02:54 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Deaf Smith

declare the Obama Admin Null = problem solved


36 posted on 05/10/2020 8:12:22 AM PDT by dila813
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To: Paine in the Neck

A Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata bump.

5.56mm


37 posted on 05/10/2020 8:18:16 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: dila813

Wish we could declare the Obama Admin. null and void, he was never eligible.

But because both parties wanted the natural born citizen requirement neutered now any anchor baby, Chinese tourist baby and even Anwar Al-Awlaki’s kids, born in Yemen to one citizen parent, are eligible to be President.
(If Ted Cruz is, they are)


38 posted on 05/10/2020 8:21:58 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Bump, send them Holder.


39 posted on 05/10/2020 8:23:59 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Q sent me)
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To: fishtank

I was detailed to the Bush White House staff when GUNWALKER was first proposed. It required the installation of remotely-activated RFID (radio frequency identification) chips, which we’ve used extensively in other situations, and targeted not only the cartels, but suspected shipments of weapons to terrorist and insurgent groups. FAST and FURIOUS eliminated the RFID component.


40 posted on 05/10/2020 8:26:15 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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