Posted on 12/15/2011 12:02:42 PM PST by Nachum
For the better part of a year, I have been saying that the end goal of Fast and Furious was more gun control. Rush Limbaugh has said this, Sean Hannity and other FOX NEWS personalities have said this, and the NRA and Gun Owners of America have said this, among others. (I had a post on Big Government on July 13th dedicated to making this very point.)
Throughout this time, I have had a copy of an email that was sent to me back in March of 2011. It’s an July 2010 email from ATF Special Agent in Charge Mark R. Chait to ATF Supervisor William Newell. It is copied to a third ATF Supervisor, William McMahon. Newell and McMahon were assigned to the Phoenix area at the time (and Phoenix just so happened to be ground zero for Fast and Furious.) In it, Chait asks Newell if he can find enough “anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun multiple sales.” In other words, Chait was asking whether, in the midst of the flood of new weapons hitting the streets via Fast and Furious, a means could be found to justify more gun control.
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How’s Hawkins fibbing by saying the email was sent to him back in March?
This email is now makes the second of two I’ve seen — both of which clearly implicate the ATF in pushing gun control behind the scenes of Fast and Furious. Doesn’t anyone have the courage to prosecute these people for what they’ve done?
Not in this administration. :(
The fib is that the email, and even the photocopy of the email, are “breaking news”. It’s available via the five-month-old link in comment 12.
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