FAST AND FURIOUS
I have posted several blogs on this before.
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Some may wonder why I think this is such a big deal. Well, the truth is, in a moral and just
administration, Attorney General Holder would have been fired, or at least
placed on administrative leave, pending adjudication of the “Fast and Furious”
scandal and his involvement. There is no longer any question that he was
involved, the question now is the extent of his involvement.
The evidence indicates that Erick Holder lied under oath to
the Congress. That offense, if proved, can lead to a prison term. The evidence also indicates that Erick
Holder may have been an accessory to the murders of two border patrol agents
who were slain with weapons walked into Mexico.
Does that not bother you at all?
Included in that evidence is proof that Holder received at least five memos a year ago about the Fast and Furious. Yet, he claimed (under oath) to have been informed about only it only a few weeks ago.
The memos were released by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who have been investigating the alleged criminal behavior.
"With the fairly detailed information that the attorney general read, it seems the logical question for the attorney general after reading in the memo would be 'why haven't we stopped them?'" said Grassley in a statement from his office.
Issa suggested that Holder failed to provide "an honest account" of what has happened.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is asking Obama to tell the DOJ to appoint a special counsel to get to the bottom of the problem.
Insiders already have estimated that hundreds of deaths might be attributable to the guns that the U.S. government let "walk" into the Mexican drug war.
Smith's demand for a special counsel suggested further misbehavior on the part of Holder.
He told Obama, "Allegations that senior Justice Department officials may have intentionally misled members of Congress are extremely troubling and must be addressed by an independent and objective special counsel. I urge you to appoint a special counsel who will investigate these allegations as soon as possible."
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu recently told reporters he figures there were more than 300 casualties from Operation Fast and Furious, and he thinks charges are appropriate against officials who bear some responsibility. The officials, he says, would include President Obama's buddy, Holder.
Babeu released a video in which he says that with 300 casualties and more than 2,000 weapons on the loose, the operation must have been authorized from officials above the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Sheriff's spokesman Elias Johnson says the number 300 looks high, but it is based on evidence. "Those figures are directly from not only the Department of Justice but from various federal agencies such as the ATF, folks that have been involved directly with crime scenes," Johnson said.
"Those were crime scenes where the serial numbers on the weapons match back to the numbers that were tracked by ATF. You can trace that ballistic back to the weapon that it was fired from," Johnson said.
Johnson said that the deeper the investigation goes, "you find out that this involved members of our government that went well beyond the ATF."
"Given the type of operation that was going on, this is not something that the ATF under good conscience could authorize on their own," he said. "This had to have gone up to Eric Holder."
Johnson said he and his colleagues believe Holder was aware, "based on people we've talked to within the ATF that have been whistleblowers and acknowledged that this was totally wrong."
Obama has already proven he hasn’t got a clue as to how to control his cabinet members and they follow his lead. They don’t have a clue how to control their departments. The incompetent lead (what appears now to be) the criminally stupid.
I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but even I know it’s outright stupid to give weapons to the very people you may enter into street combat against.
Following are a few videos I found on YouTube about the subject for anyone that may be interested. Unfortunately most of the general public has become too apathetic to even give a squat what the government does anymore. They seem to prefer to set around and bitch about things Bush may or may not have done. Wake the hell up people. That was then and this is now. If you can’t do anything else, at least send the link to this blog post to everyone in your email address list.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has issued his subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder regarding Operation Fast and Furious. Some thought the subpoena would go out yesterday, but apparently it took Issa a while to finish writing it because it’s a really big one.
ReplyDeleteIssa said “Top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Holder, know more about Operation Fast and Furious than they have publicly acknowledged. The documents this subpoena demands will provide answers to questions that Justice officials have tried to avoid since this investigation began eight months ago. It’s time we know the whole truth.”
To that end, Holder is required to produce virtually every communication anyone associated with the Justice Department or ATF ever sent to anyone regarding Operation Fast and Furious, or “any Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force firearms trafficking case based in Phoenix, Arizona.” The subpoena specifically names 16 DOJ officials.