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New e-mails: ATF officials discussed using Fast & Furious to … push gun control
Hot Air ^ | 12/7/11 | Allahpundit

Posted on 12/07/2011 2:11:27 PM PST by Nachum

The logical extension of Rahm’s famous remark about never letting a serious crisis go to waste. If a grave problem is an opportunity to push your agenda, imagine how much farther you can push it by making the problem graver.

Another F&F bombshell from CBS’s Sharyl Attkisson:

ATF officials didn’t intend to publicly disclose their own role in letting Mexican cartels obtain the weapons, but emails show they discussed using the sales, including sales encouraged by ATF, to justify a new gun regulation called “Demand Letter 3″. That would require some U.S. gun shops to report the sale of multiple rifles or “long guns.” Demand Letter 3 was so named because it would be the third ATF program demanding gun dealers report tracing information.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; control; dea; demandletter; demandletter3; demandletterping; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; obama; officials
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Not a surprise, but nice to have a ...er... smoking gun
1 posted on 12/07/2011 2:11:38 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Hillary was up to her eyeballs in it. Remember all the false propoganda she spewed about majority of seized Mexican guns coming from the US?


2 posted on 12/07/2011 2:23:25 PM PST by umgud
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To: Nachum

Of course. Everything is politics to the left.

The reason they teach perverted sex to 11 year olds in NYC schools is politics.

Literally everything they do is about political power.


3 posted on 12/07/2011 2:25:05 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Nachum

Tomorrow’s HCOGR hearings ought to prove interesting !

While AG Holder’s, (and the Obama Administration et al), contempt for our laws - except when they can advantageously manipulate them - has been well-documented, its largely been a fantasy to those getting their “news” from the lamestream media. Perhaps the next round of hearings will force the “majors” to taking at least cursory notice. >PS


4 posted on 12/07/2011 2:25:23 PM PST by PiperShade
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To: Nachum

I have a friend who is a FFL gun dealer. He says he knows several people who are being investigated by the ATF right now over stupid little stuff.
It is our theory that teh ATF is tightening the screws to make it harder on all the little guys out there so the ATF can have more control. When there are only 1 or 2 gun dealers left it will be easy to see who is doing and buying what.


5 posted on 12/07/2011 2:27:15 PM PST by vpintheak (Democrats: Robbing humans of their dignity 1 law at a time)
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To: vpintheak

And somebody’s been buying the gun makers too.


6 posted on 12/07/2011 2:30:25 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

On another thread this morning I read a comment that Sharyl Attkisson must have been silenced because of nothing new from her in a month.


7 posted on 12/07/2011 2:32:36 PM PST by printhead (Standard & Poor - Poor is the new standard.)
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To: Nachum

I would expect that, at the conclusion of the hearing, holder will be taken into custody and read his rights.


8 posted on 12/07/2011 2:48:39 PM PST by muddler (Diligentia, Vis and Celeritas)
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To: Nachum

if this was not obama the MSM would be screaming for blood.


9 posted on 12/07/2011 2:54:18 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: muddler

What are the odds of that happening?


10 posted on 12/07/2011 3:08:44 PM PST by tbw2
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To: PiperShade

“Tomorrow’s HCOGR hearings ought to prove interesting !”

But will there ever be any indictments, arrests and convictions? Holder may ultimately get the boot but his minions, perpetrators and co-conspirators will get off scott free thanks largely to the protection afforded to them by the liberal media.


11 posted on 12/07/2011 3:09:15 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Nachum

These 2nd Amendment haters need to be in real ass-bangin’ jail...for reals!


12 posted on 12/07/2011 3:13:25 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Nachum; MestaMachine; Joe Brower
It wasn't "under the radar" enough.

Tomorrow should be EPIC.


13 posted on 12/07/2011 3:19:58 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: printhead
Here's one from Sharyl Attkisson from Dec. 2nd.

Justice Dept. Fast and Furious emails show disagreement over response to Grassley


14 posted on 12/07/2011 3:37:10 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: umgud

Zactly! This is Hillary’s baby, too:

For years she screeched about US guns were flooding Mexico, and since via the Operation Wide Receiver guns got to Honduras via FMS (foreign military sales) how would that happen without all the requisite sign-offs from the State Department she heads?

Obama and Hillary smuggled machine-guns and they have the blood of 3,000 Mexicans on their hands.

HILLARY = MACHINE-GUN SMUGGLER.


15 posted on 12/07/2011 3:40:47 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Nachum
ATF officials discussed using Fast & Furious to … push gun control

You just knew these people were doing precisely that, even before the proof came out. Nothing else was possible, in an anti-gun & anti-freedom culture that declares shoe laces are machine guns, shoots mothers to death while they're holding their babies, and attacks buildings full of civilians with armored vehicles.

16 posted on 12/07/2011 3:44:11 PM PST by Ocean Ranger ('unrestricted ocean operations')
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To: Nachum
do I really have to say it???

17 posted on 12/07/2011 3:58:54 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Ocean Ranger

This needs to be up on DRUDGE with 50 flashing lights. All MSM need this crammed down their throats including MSNBC nuts. Will this be reported...............Will the ACLU jump on this.................................Will there be protests......................NOPE.


18 posted on 12/07/2011 4:04:09 PM PST by therut
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To: therut

Drudge is a hack. He’s curled up in his bedroom fondling Monica’s blue dress mumbling “I broke the story, I broke the story...”


19 posted on 12/07/2011 4:23:52 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Nachum

It is exactly what everyone said from the beginning.


20 posted on 12/07/2011 4:30:20 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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