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| 2011-09-27 |
| A round-up of links of Project Gunwalker stories today -- a Rantburg original -- thus no external link Yesterday's Part I and Part II of Project Gunwalker about AFT agents given money to purchase guns, were sourced to Mike Vanderboegh at Sipsey Street Irregulars and David Codrea at the Gun Rights Examiner. They presented a letter from an Agent in Charge to a gun seller, to sell the guns to an AFT agent. A copy of the letter, which bears the handwritten note of the gun dealer who accepted it, is also posted at the Examiner. Today's follow-ups: Bob Owens of Pajamas Media reports that Senator Charles Grassley's office corroborates the story that ATF walked guns directly to cartel using taxpayer dollars. A spokesperson for Senator Charles Grassley responded to the allegations by Vanderboegh/Codrea by noting: In a March 3 letter to Attorney General Holder and Acting ATF Director Melson, Senator Grassley released Reports of Investigation (Attachment 1 to the letter linked below) in relation to the same case to which Mr. Voth's letter pertains. There is more detailed information about this non-Fast and Furious case in those previously released ROIs than in Mr. Voth's letter. The Voth letter was not obtained until later and merely corroborates the information already in the ROIs.The letter and attachment noted by Grassley's office corroborate Vanderboegh/Codrea's claim, and show that Dodson bought the weapons from Guns for All, a FFL in Peoria, AZ. To be up-to-date on this scandal, take the time to read or at least glance through Grassley's reports and the attachments. If Vanderboegh/Codrea are correct -- and for the duration of this scandal they have been dead-on accurate -- Dodson was chosen by his superiors to become the "walker" of Fast and Furious guns in order to "dirty" him for his previous vehement arguments against the operations. The apparent hope was that if he was sullied in the operation himself, that he would be unwilling or unable to blow the whistle on crimes that he himself participated in. Obviously, they miscalculated his character. The plot to ensnare Dodson sounds like a Hollywood mob movie for a very good reason; this kind of stunt has been revealed in multiple RICO prosecutions of organized crime. The unraveling Gunwalker conspiracy has the potential of being the most devastating scandal in the history of American politics. -------------------------------- ATF Chief Counsel's office warned management of Gun Rights Examiner column Gun Rights Examiner has obtained a copy of a January 20, 2011 email from Barry Orlow, Associate Chief Counsel (Field Operations and Information) for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, calling top management's attention to a January 19 column posted by this columnist, "Open Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee staff on 'Project Gunwalker'." Written to inform the committee of whistleblower allegations and to arrange for their protection, the ultimate goal of the open letter was to prompt a full congressional investigation. Orlow was named by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa in July for sending intimidating warning letters to witnesses about what they could not talk about, with the result that "at least one witness wanted to back out of testifying to his committee after receiving the letter." -------------------------------------- Tea Party looking for answers in ATF gun mistake The Tucson Tea Party hosted a meeting Monday night up in Oro Valley with speakers from ATF, local law enforcement, and U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar. It was a small panel, but the crowd was anything but small. Dolores Becker was one of the hundreds that packed into the auditorium. She said, " We could hardly find a place to park. I was really shocked, but I was delighted." The speakers explained what happened and didn't shy away from expressing how they really feel about it. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said, "Not only is this obscene and outrageous but it has resulted in 200 plus at least murders and deaths in Mexico." ---------------------------------- Fast and Furious: Using Humans as Collateral Damage The Canyon Del Oro High School auditorium in Tucson, Ariz. was packed full of at least 500 people last night as anxious tea party members waited to hear from ATF whistleblower Vince Cefalu, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar about the Obama Justice Department's Operation Fast and Furious. The theme of the night? Accountability. "The only thing I have ever asked is to put all the cards on the table. Tell the truth," ATF whistleblower Vince Cefalu said. Cefalu was heavily involved in Operation Fast and Furious and has been an ATF agent for over 20 years. He has watched the bureau become a political entity rather than fulfilling its obligations as a law enforcement agency. "We should not concern ourselves with any administration's agenda," Cefalu said. "It [Operation Fast and Furious] defies logic, common sense, it defies our core beliefs, our training and our experience as ATF agents." When Cefalu started speaking out against his superiors within ATF about the way Operation Fast and Furious was being conducted, putting high powered weapons into the hands of ruthless drug cartels and then losing track of them, he was approached within 24 hours and told to stop. He was also threatened and told if he didn't shut his mouth, he would be relocated to North Dakota, a long way from where he had been working along the southern border with Mexico. "To think that they could do this sort of operation knowing there could be a dead ATF agent at the ends of those guns made me nauseous," he said. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #2 every one of the petty bureaucrats ass-covering the ATF/FBI/DOJ management needs to have his career crushed... pour encourager les autres |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-09-27 20:58 |
| #1 Things are not going to get better until there is a regime change and agencies begin to uphold the law rather than break the law. They have to get away from supporting a way-left wing agenda. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-09-27 12:18 |