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| 2011-09-06 |
| If the reassignment of ATF officials in recent weeks and the abrupt resignation of U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke were attempts by the Department of Justice and the Obama administration to cover up the Gunwalker scandal, they have failed, miserably. Now they are saddled by yet another claim of retaliation against a whistleblower and new revelations that gunwalking was far more lethal and widespread that originally thought. David Codrea of the Examiner has been at the forefront of the investigation, and reveals that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and FBI -- two of the agencies that played key rolls in Operation Fast and Furious -- conducted a remarkably similar operation ... in Indiana. At the very least, as with "Project Gunwalker," they indicate straw purchased guns ended up in crime traces, something those directing surveillance were well aware of. It also indicates the FBI and ATF were once again involved with allowing transactions rejected by NICS to proceed, indicating this practice could be more widespread than has been previously documented, and not confined to Southwest border operations.... Codrea goes on to suggest that the special agent in charge (SAC) of the Columbus Field Division and the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana need to answer whether they played a role in a plot to "walk" guns to criminals in the Midwest that sounds eerily like the Gunwalker plot in Arizona. Remind me, señor, Indiana, she is far away from the border, no? It has long been suggested Gunwalker -- which sent at least 2,020 guns to the Sinaloa cartel -- was never a legitimate law enforcement operation, because there was no possible way for the program to succeed. U.S. law enforcement does not have the jurisdiction to make arrests in Mexico where they claimed their targets resided, and the senior level cartel members they claimed to be targeting are not even involved with low-level criminal enterprises such as getting guns for their foot soldiers, an idea as absurd as plotting to catch executives of a billion-dollar corporation buying toner and copy paper at an office supply store. Operation Fast and Furious only made logical sense if the goal of the operation was first and foremost to put U.S. guns in the hands of the Sinaloa cartel, and at Mexican crime scenes. There was never any mechanism within Fast and Furious to intercept the thousands of Gunwalker weapons once they left the gun shops, and the multi-agency team (DOJ, ATF, FBI, DEA, IRS, DHS) acted as nothing more or less than a shield to prevent straw purchasers and smugglers from being intercepted by local or state law enforcement. The apparent purpose of the operation was to lend the thinnest veneer of truth to the 90-percent lie spread by Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and Hillary Clinton from the very beginning of the Obama administration. It makes sense only as a plot to manufacture evidence for the punitive gun control laws that Obama has championed his entire political career. Indeed, even after Gunwalker was exposed, the number of U.S. guns in Mexico, many of which were put there by the actions of the government itself, was still brazenly used as the excuse for ATF long gun reporting requirements currently being challenged in courts. Likewise, what Codrea has dubbed as "Gangwalker" appears to be another attempt to provide guns to criminals in order to generate more gun crime and then more calls for gun control. The biggest difference between the two operations at this early date only seems to be that Gangwalker is a purposeful attempt to create the deaths of American citizens in order to pursue the administration's fanatical anti-gun agenda. American deaths, for political gain. Think about that claim for a minute, and what that would mean. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #4 still with the "salmon" thing? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-09-06 23:20 |
| #3 That was me (the salmon mod color), not Beavis, and it was snark. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-09-06 23:04 |
| #2 Yeah Beavis, Indiana is far from the Mexico border but NOT the Chicago border. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-09-06 22:47 |
| #1 I recall, BO referred to a national security force when he was campaigning in 2008. American Thinker, July 28, 2011 had the following BO quote in reference to an earlier speech: <"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."/em> So is Gangwalker the program to arm the security force to which O'Bummer is referring? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-09-06 15:47 |