Perhaps you haven't heard much of this through the LSM, but the situation created by this administration is truly despicable. In particular, border agent Brian Terry was murdered with one of the weapons
From Pajamas Media, we have a summary of the events. Here's a start:
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.The ATF employees whistle blowers (4 of them) who testified were suspicious of the motives of the ATF officials in charge, as are many others.
And from Powerline:
The weapons that were permitted to be smuggled into Mexico under Fast and Furious contributed to the drug violence there. According to ATF agents who testified, that made ATF officials "giddy." One agent recounted a conversation with an ATF higher-up in which he asked, "are you prepared to go to a border agent's funeral over this or a Cochise County deputy's over this, because that's going to happen." Her response, in a chilling echo of Lenin, was that "if you are going to make an omelette, you need to scramble some eggs."Once the project was discovered, Powerline describes what happened:
The evidence suggests that the Department of Justice immediately went into cover-up mode. In January 2011, William Newell, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF's Phoenix Field Division, held a press conference in which he announced the indictment of 20 individuals. This was presented as though it represented the roll-up of a drug gang, but in fact, most of the indictments were for the relatively minor offense of "lying and buying," and nearly all of those indicted were straw purchasers whose identities were known to ATF long before Fast and Furious began.Why such an operation? Some suspect that the administration wanted illicit guns to get into the hands of criminals to push for gun control in this country, since Obama said he was "working on gun control under the radar." Here would be the evidence of the need for gun control.
Again from Pajamas Media:
At the same time they were damning gun dealers in public, the administration was secretly forcing them to provide weapons to the cartels, by the armful and without oversight. More than one gun industry insider suggests that the administration extorted cooperation and silence from these gun shops. As the ATF has the power to summarily shut dealers down for the most minor of offenses, that is very, very possible.So the purpose, again, is to achieve a lofty liberal goal of making the argument for gun control, by any means necessary, including hook or crook.
This is a pattern we've seen before.
As Eric Holder claims the DOJ is "again open for business," there are complaints that that's only true if your skin is a certain color.
Executive orders accomplish what the administration cannot accomplish through law or Congress.
Appoint a czar, accountable to no one. Throw billions, no trillions of dollars at stupid crap that won't accomplish anything. Spend $160,000 on one job. Heck, spend $2,000,000 per stimulus job. There's nothing immoral about that.
Pass a health care plan that nobody wants, make all kinds of promises that won't be kept. Lie to get what you want.
Yeah, that's a pattern.
Here's hoping this one goes down.
It'd sure help if we had a real press corps.
Or is it corpse?
UPDATE: Much more is here, including a specific timeline that shows the progression of the program.
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