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2012-06-21 Home Front: WoT

The Fast and Furious scandal is turning into President Obama's Watergate

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Posted by Beavis 2012-06-21 08:57|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 If the reporting were any better, he'd have 20 Watergates by now.

Posted by Iblis 2012-06-21 11:54|| 2012-06-21 11:54|| Front Page Top

#2 So Obama's operation is subtly different.

Subtly different? I'd say these were pretty substantial differences.

Posted by MW 2012-06-21 12:16|| 2012-06-21 12:16|| Front Page Top

#3 So transparency is in the eyes of the beHOLDER?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2012-06-21 13:44|| 2012-06-21 13:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Mistake number one, then, was to involve the White House in covering up the errors of a separate, autonomous political department. Mistake number two was that when Congress discovered that evidence about the scandal might be recorded on the White House bugging system, Nixon invoked executive privilege to protect the tapes. In both cases, it was the cover up that destroyed Tricky Dick -- not the original crime.

However, everyone learned from those mistakes of 40 years ago and technology has evolved beyond tape recordings. The Oval Office isn't as secure apparently assumed.

Posted by OmuluqueHapsburg5085 2012-06-21 15:09|| 2012-06-21 15:09|| Front Page Top

#5 No one died in Watergate. F&F gunrunning to undermine the 2nd Amendment.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-06-21 15:35|| 2012-06-21 15:35|| Front Page Top

#6 An interesting summary of F & F from Canada Free Press

Posted by JohnQC 2012-06-21 16:16|| 2012-06-21 16:16|| Front Page Top

#7 too bad this asshat won't resign like nixon

Posted by chris 2012-06-21 16:35|| 2012-06-21 16:35|| Front Page Top

#8 One blogger--can't recall which--suggested that, if the purpose was to gin up outrage to support some kind of gun rights rollback, the project needed dead Mexicans. No dead Mexicans, no outrage.
We have dear friends in Mexico, and I'm feeling too ashamed to talk to them.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2012-06-21 21:01|| 2012-06-21 21:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Where's Woodturd and Bernlean when you re4ally need em?

Posted by jack salami 2012-06-21 22:15|| 2012-06-21 22:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Richard - that appears to have ALWAYS been the objective: dead Mexicans - US Weapons - Cut down on weapons here. It was just clumsy and stupidly applied...note: without (!) Joe Biden. This is on his level of strategic planning

Posted by Frank G 2012-06-21 22:19|| 2012-06-21 22:19|| Front Page Top

#11 even in the Bush Admin DHS officials kept saying that 90% of the cartel guns hailed from the USA. My colleagues and I we're highly skeptical. The Administration of Barack Chavez Obama took it a quantum leap further by trying to prove the 90% to clamp down on the 2nd Amendment. Sort of sounds like what 60 Minutes does...search high and low for odd pieces to support a premise and present it as fact.

Posted by jack salami 2012-06-21 22:23|| 2012-06-21 22:23|| Front Page Top

#12 DHS officials kept saying that 90% of the cartel guns hailed from the USA

They were, but not from private dealers. They were weapons originally sold/provided to the Mexican military. Coercing private dealers to sell to the cartels was an Obamanistic innovation.

The 'forty years to the day' thing makes me fear we are caught in some sort of time loop. It's like having our own private Nixon to kick around.

Posted by SteveS 2012-06-21 23:22|| 2012-06-21 23:22|| Front Page Top

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