Posted on 06/27/2012 3:05:14 PM PDT by xzins
On October 11, 2011 Eric Holder broke the news that Iran had been engaged in a covert war against the United States, and had even sent an agent to the U.S. to involve Mexican drug cartels as accomplices in a plot to murder the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States.
What is truly amazing about this is that Eric Holder has been engaged in his own covert war against another nation...against Mexico and Mexicans for the past three years. In the bizarre world of Washington D.C., the Obama Administration was doing the same thing against the Mexican government that it accused Iran of doing against the United States. It has been arming Mexican drug cartels with thousands of highly lethal battlefield weapons. The cartels have been using those weapons to deadly effect against Mexican officials and Mexican citizens. Hundreds of Mexicans have been killed in cold blood with weapons intentionally provided to them by the Obama Administration.
As recently as 8 Oct 2011 the Los Angeles Times reported:
High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF's Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in the Mexican drug wars.http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-atf-guns-20111009,0,6431788.story
In addition to the blood spilled in Mexico, blood has also been spilled in the US. U.S. Border Agent, Brian Terry, murdered in a firefight against the Mexican cartel on the U.S. side of the border, has had the weapons used to kill him positively identified as being among those GIVEN to the drug cartels by the Obama Administration. In a conversation reported by CBS News, Terry’s death is callously dismissed as “collateral damage.” (See http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20109529-10391695.html)
While Eric Holder might plead "not guilty" to the above charges, the facts remain the same. If it is not murder and a covert war, the Obama Administration is left with only one dishonorable explanation: they could plead gross incompetence and hundreds of grossly negligent homicides.
The Obama Administration has been a major participant in hundreds of Mexicans being murdered. It has provided deadly arms to the Mexican government's number one public enemy, the blood-thirsty Mexican drug cartels. To date, Mexico has not filed charges in either the World Court or at the United Nations.
Will it do so? Mexico's attorney general, Marisela Morales, quoted in the Los Angeles Times said that:
deliberately letting weapons "walk" into Mexico ...would represent a "betrayal" of [her] country http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/19/world/la-fg-mexico-fast-furious-20110920
At this point, the investigation into the Obama Administration's covert war on Mexico has been hampered by obvious obstruction from Eric Holder, the U.S. Attorney General, a man whose incompetence has permitted this travesty to go on. Even now a contempt of Congress vote is being prepared against him. Additionally, President Obama's claim of executive privilege can only mean that the ultimate trail must lead to the top member(s) of the Executive Branch.
Morales, Mexico's attorney general, ...told The Times that she first learned about Fast and Furious from news reports. And as of last fall, she said, U.S. officials had not briefed her on the operation...nor have they apologized. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-fast-furious-20110920,0,6511144,full.story"At no time ...In no way would we have allowed it, because it is an attack on the safety of Mexicans."
To repeat, Morales said that directing weapons into Mexico to be used against Mexican citizens and the Mexican government is "a betrayal of [her] country."
The Obama Administration owes more than it can ever repay to the families of Mexican murder victims and to the family of murdered US Border agent, Brian Terry. At the least, it could acknowledge some grave error and begin making reparations to those struck down in cold blood with U.S. provided weapons.
Even though a contempt of Congress citation is all the talk these days, due process should result in criminal charges. These will be small consolation for the murder victims of the Obama Administration’s covert war on Mexico.
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http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/23/us/venezuelan-general-indicted-in-cia-scheme.html
Funny what you remember and mis-remember.
General Guillen, of the Venezuelan National Guard, working with CIA in 1990. They apparently had infiltrated the Colombians and wanted to prove their agent’s bona fides by sending some shipments through. He and CIA had permission to send a ton; they ultimately sent 22 tons which was sold on the streets.
So, legitimate or not? I remember in the same era a lot of mischief involving CIA and drugs so who knows. Your comment about “stings” being a means of hiding corruption could possibly apply here; they have permission to run a ton so they run 22 tons and sell it on the streets.
I remember a phrase I used to hear back during the Clinton years: the investigation is the cover-up. In some cases maybe the investigation is the smuggling operation.
Great line, Marron.
The link goes into the files for later use. Thank you, FRiend.
Great editorial, xzins!
I don’t know if the planning of this went to the top, but it seems obama may be participating in its coverup.
It boggles my mind that this story has received such little attention before now.
BTW, James Zapata (ICE agent) is another possible victim of Fast and Furious. His parents just filed a wrongful death claim.
Of course Beckel is correct (blind pig/acorn). However, this is off the scale on the "Chutzpah meter" when the whole idea of this scheme was to "prove" that the drug cartels are getting all their guns from legal gun dealers in the US.
Mark
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