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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Posted by Michael Laprarie
Published: June 21, 2011 - 9:00 AM
Lately, there's been lots of talk about the faltering state of our economy.
It's certainly the single biggest failure of the Obama Administration, and,
consequently, the single biggest weakness for candidate Obama in the 2012
presidential election.
But it's not the only one. If you are a blog reader, you are no doubt aware
of the implosion of "Operation Fast and Furious", in which the ATF and
Justice Departments worked together to allow American guns to be smuggled to
Mexican drug cartels, ostensibly for the purpose of tracking the movement
of American firearms and accurately determining how many guns from America
are smuggled into Mexico each year. But the program got out of hand, and
after a US Border Patrol agent was killed by a Fast and Furious gun in a
firefight with Mexican drug smugglers late last year, a group of ATF agents
blew the whistle on the failed program. These agents are currently
testifying before the House of Representatives.
Confederate Yankee's Bob Owens, writing at Pajamas Media, believes the Fast
and Furious scandal is about to blow wide open, as facts emerge that ATF and
Justice Department officials might have been deliberately trying to plant
evidence in an attempt to justify new regulations or executive orders
designed to tighten government gun control:
Fast and Furious, also known by the more accurate "Gunwalker," allowed
known straw purchasers to buy large quantities of firearms -- often a dozen
or more semi-automatic rifles -- at a time with the full knowledge of ATF
agents and executives. The guns were then smuggled into Mexico, as
frustrated front-line ATF agents watched, under strict orders to do nothing.
ATF agents testifying in front of the House Oversight Committee could
not explain how the operation was supposed to succeed when their
surveillance efforts stopped at the border and interdiction was never an
option.
ATF Agent John Dodson, testifying in front of the committee, said that
in his entire law enforcement career, he had "never been involved in or even
heard of an operation in which law enforcement officers let guns walk." He
continued: "I cannot begin to think of how the risk of letting guns fall
into the hands of known criminals could possibly advance any legitimate law
enforcement interest."
The obvious answer is that Gunwalker's objective was never intended to
be a "legitimate law enforcement interest." Instead, it appears that ATF
Acting Director Ken Melson and Department of Justice senior executives
specifically created an operation that was designed from the outset to arm
Mexican narco-terrorists and increase violence substantially along both
sides of the Southwest border.
Success was measured not by the number of criminals being incarcerated,
but by the number of weapons transiting the border and the violence those
weapons caused. An ATF manager was "delighted" when Gunwalker guns started
showing up at drug busts. It would be entirely consistent with this theory
if DOJ communications reflected the approval of the ATF senior officials
they were colluding with -- but as we know, Holder's Department of Justice
refuses to cooperate.
Owens also looks at President Obama's past involvement with the Joyce
Foundation, a left-leaning social justice organization that has promoted a
strong gun control agenda for decades. During President Obama's tenure as a
director at the Foundation, it spent millions of dollars in a naked attempt
to bias law review literature by paying for legal reviews of gun laws and
their correlation to violence, but only publishing the reviews that strongly
supported gun control. To believe that President Obama's views -- or
tactics -- on gun control have changed would be extremely naive and foolish.
Just recently, Sarah Brady told a group of gun control supporters that
President Obama personally assured her that his administration had been
working "under the radar" on gun control measures.
Hopefully the Republicans will be successful in getting a Special Prosecutor
appointed to investigate this travesty of a 'law enforcement' program. If
the testimony given by these whistle-blowing agents is accurate, it hints at
a scandal that will eventually dwarf Iran/Contra from the 1980's -- if the
mainstream media can be somehow persuaded to actually report it. Owens
concludes:
Considering the arming of narco-terrorist gangs, the destabilizing
geopolitical effect on Mexico, the foreign policy ramifications, and the
possibility of extrajudicial and criminal activity at the highest levels of
the executive branch, a special prosecutor should be just one avenue of
investigation. This could possibly lead to prison for senior administration
officials and an indictment against President Barack Obama himself.
It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of folks. |
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