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Gunwalker bombshell--"there never was a 'sting'"
Conservative Examiner ^ | 26 September, 2011 | Anthony Martin

Posted on 09/26/2011 11:38:03 AM PDT by marktwain

An ATF source has provided reporters a copy of a letter sent on June 1, 2010 which indicates that the monumental scandal known as 'Project Gunwalker,' or 'Operation Fast and Furious,' was never a sting operation as previously reported. If such an allegation is true, then the official Obama Administration explanation for the operation is entirely false.

The commonly-reported talking point concerning Gunwalker is that it was intended as a sting operation but that it went bad when rogue ATF agents took it in a sinister direction.

But the letter of June 2010, forwarded to reporters David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh, indicates that nothing about the operation contained any of the elements of a 'sting.' Everything ATF agents did in placing guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels was done in the open and with the approval of their supervisors:

An ATF source has provided reporters a copy of a letter sent on June 1, 2010 which indicates that the monumental scandal known as 'Project Gunwalker,' or 'Operation Fast and Furious,' was never a sting operation as previously reported. If such an allegation is true, then the official Obama Administration explanation for the operation is entirely false.

The commonly-reported talking point concerning Gunwalker is that it was intended as a sting operation but that it went bad when rogue ATF agents took it in a sinister direction.

But the letter of June 2010, forwarded to reporters David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh, indicates that nothing about the operation contained any of the elements of a 'sting.' Everything ATF agents did in placing guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels was done in the open and with the approval of their supervisors:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; atf; banglist; border; dodson; fastandfurious; gunrunner; gunwalker; hilleryclinton; holder; nra; obama; secondamendment; sting
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To: OneLoyalAmerican

“Drudge now reporting taxpayers bought the guns too. Some stimulus, eh?’

Well, shoot! [figuratively]. Now I won’t have to spend time posting my threatened “Days Drudge Refused to Posted About ‘Never Was a Sting’.” thread.

Thanks, Matt. Don’t make me have to get off my behind and threaten to post a similar one when the next F&F bombshell drops. :)


101 posted on 09/26/2011 7:56:00 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: glock rocks

102 posted on 09/26/2011 7:56:12 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: marktwain

I think some of you forget just how much gun control or gun confiscation means to the Obama/Clinton Cabal. Bill Clinton even pushed gun control knowing it would hurt him and it did. He lost the House after his assault weapons bill.

I really think the only real purpose of these operations was gun control. Maybe making the U.S. look bad to the Mexicans may have played a small part but gun confiscation is their ultimate goal.


103 posted on 09/26/2011 7:57:33 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: greeneyes

“In addition to providing a reason for additional gun control, I have always wondered if there might not be a little drug cartel corruption of the government going on?”

Say it isn’t so!

We know that Clinton was, and can plausibly surmise that the Bushes were, and would be crazy to doubt that the Big O is - bought off with dirty money, drugs, trafficked humans, paramilitary enforcers, and others spoils of power politics. That no one from either party, besides Issa and Grassley, have mentioned a word about this, and that the GOP presidential candidates have been entirely mum as well, speaks of the broad and deep reaches of the treason before us.


104 posted on 09/26/2011 8:09:20 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: TYVets

Ain’t just the Mexican president complaining south of the border. Hillary’s globalist conservative from Costa Rica and the leftist from El Salvador are horning in on the action via stage left.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39726&Cr=&Cr1

Please note the collateral damages remark.


105 posted on 09/26/2011 9:10:36 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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To: G Larry

Was the President referring to Gunwalker?


106 posted on 09/26/2011 10:11:56 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: San Jacinto
"Do you mean they were bound to be found out?"

Sort of - they didn't disguise it very well - there isn't really a fine line between "subtle" and "blatant".

107 posted on 09/27/2011 4:33:51 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: itsahoot
"No secret from long time Freepers."

I know that - I was quoting a previous poster, hence the "quote" marks.....

108 posted on 09/27/2011 4:38:15 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

What else has he been doing to impose gun control “under the radar”?

He doesn’t have the courage to face it head on, so, in the Chicago way, he creates a straw man as the basis for executive order. (or thru some unelected czar)


109 posted on 09/27/2011 5:10:40 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: Joe Brower

Hang ‘em High!!


110 posted on 09/27/2011 7:45:19 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: onighost29
You know, anytime W even sneezed sideways the libbies called for his impeachment. Where are those same useless dolts now?

The crime is in being a Republican. Sooner you understand that, the less shocking the liberals will become.

111 posted on 09/27/2011 7:50:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Michael Moore: Aggressively Hypocritical and Smug About It.)
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To: Psalm 73

I mean, these are people who have been to college, balanced their checkbooks, made mortgage payments and navigated through other adult tasks - how can they also be so massively incompetent?

It is not incompetence. You assume they espouse American values. They do not. They want a one world communist government and they are doing all they can to weaken us to the point that we are unable to resist. We are near that point. They appear very competent at destroying all parts of our nation.


112 posted on 09/27/2011 8:04:45 AM PDT by Josephat
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To: marktwain; Excellence; Travis McGee
An ATF source has provided reporters a copy of a letter sent on June 1, 2010 which indicates that the monumental scandal known as 'Project Gunwalker,' or 'Operation Fast and Furious,' was never a sting operation as previously reported. If such an allegation is true, then the official Obama Administration explanation for the operation is entirely false.

Obama DOJ Deputy Attorney General: "10 million of stimulus package *Recovery Act* funds used to finance ATF Operation Gunrunner*

113 posted on 09/28/2011 4:16:08 PM PDT by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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