Mention the Fast and Furious scandal and 90 percent of all Americans will have no idea of what you're talking about.
They're too busy watching this....
And its all by design.
Posted on 09/28/2011 8:34:19 AM PDT by maggief
Why a gunrunning scandal codenamed “Fast and Furious,” a program run secretly by the U.S. government that sent thousands of firearms over an international border and directly into the hands of criminals, hasn’t been pursued by an army of reporters all trying to be the next Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein is a story in itself.
But the state of modern journalism aside, this scandal is so inflammatory few realize that official records show the current director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), B. Todd Jones — yes the individual the Obama administration brought in to replace ATF Director Kenneth Melson Aug. 30 in an effort to deflect congressional criticism — also has questions to answer about his involvement in this gunrunning scandal.
Fast and Furious was an operation so cloak-and-dagger Mexican authorities weren’t even notified that thousands of semi-automatic firearms were being sold to people in Arizona thought to have links to Mexican drug cartels. According to ATF whistleblowers, in 2009 the U.S. government began instructing gun storeowners to break the law by selling firearms to suspected criminals. ATF agents then, again according to testimony by ATF agents turned whistleblowers, were ordered not to intercept the smugglers but rather to let the guns “walk” across the U.S.-Mexican border and into the hands of Mexican drug-trafficking organizations.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Not above the law, AROUND the law.
Above, around, through, over, under ...
True, and their support will surely keep this from rising to Watergate levels of scandal, but on the other hand, the cat is out of the bag now, and it can't be ignored completely, either.
One can only hope that Issa will keep the heat on, and make this a major thorn in the administration's side.
I’m happy to see the story actually made it to Forbes. Could it be that in spite of the LSM the cat is slowing clawing its way out of the bag?
And why this story in itself hasn't been pursued by an army of pundits is another story in itself.
But hey, better late than never.
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Brian Terry’s Family Prepares For Funeral, Rips Obama Admin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPopTU43kwU
Issa Grills Attorney General Holder on Operation Fast and Furious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NqH88cSBqI
Obstruction Of Justice: Does The Justice Dept Have To Respond To A Congressional Subpoena?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VXa0wcqVBw
Who in Justice Department is Responsible for Operation Fast and Furious?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsI85G-1fb0
“Operation Fast and Furious”: Reckless Decisions, Tragic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cYeIswLQms
***One of the whistleblower’s- ATF Agent Vince Cefalu, (testifying in the video below has been fired since the hearng.***
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/27/
“Operation Fast and Furious: Reckless Decisions, Tragic Outcomes.” Panel 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLcNw1HV_tg&NR=1
It will never be his Watergate from the media point of view.
Wow. Tip of the spear, fun, etc. Enemies, domestic.
Great article. Sent to drudge who is horrible on this issue.
One store, Lone Wolf Trading Company in Glendale, Ariz., soon became the smuggler’s favorite. Andre Howard, owner of Lone Wolf Trading Company, declined to comment to us about Fast and Furious because he is under a congressional subpoena; however, recordings taped by Howard of him speaking to an ATF agent have been released by the U.S. Department of Justice. One of the suspects the ATF was watching as he bought guns from Lone Wolf Trading Company was Jaime Avila. He allegedly bought AK-47s at Lone Wolf Trading Company that turned up at a crime scene in which drug smugglers killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent (more on this to come). The other was Uriel Patino. As the ATF watched, he bought hundreds of firearms from Lone Wolf Trading Company and reportedly sold them to Mexico’s brutal Sinoloa drug cartel.
Lone Wolf Trading Company?
Lone Wolf Trading Company? That's a classic sting operation front name for law enforcement ... It's such an obvious name - that when the operation's done, insiders can laugh for years about how stupid crooks are... and they are... but that's later...
Looking at the name - and only the name - I'd say the real target wasn't Mexican drug dealers - it was the so-called 'lone wolfs' - the conservative boggie-man / straw man of the totalitarian left.
The 'boggie-man type the Southern Poverty Law Center claims exists everywhere. The one they pushed during the old 'vast right wing conspiracy' days.
"Lone Wolf" is the updated version of VRWC. Of course the totalitarian left hasn't been able to find ONE lone wolf - NOT one right wing terrorist in the last decade or two - that's their holy grail... So what were they suppose to do? The Totalitarian left has been saying these nutty conservatives (dangerous) are behind every tree - and THEY CAN'T COME UP WITH ONE!!!
The horror.
This program was probably designed to prime the pump - because scare stories quit working when no one can catch ONE right wing 'lone wolf'... The totalitarian left fears losing their "suck-ups" who write for the Washington Post and New York Times. And if they can't give them an "I told you so" piece every now and then, they will lose them. The MSM isn't as stupid as the left things... they do catch on after ten or fifteen years...
And yeah, there's probably a reason "Woodward and Bernstein" aren't on this...
...Stonewall. BHO, “Looky hea Holmes, Ima gangsta, buts I ain’st no crook”...
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