Absolutely shocking evidence has arisen that shows high-ranking state officials actually knew about Fast and Furious:
A House investigative committee said Tuesday it has obtained new information from wiretaps related to the Obama administration’s Operation Fast and Furious that suggests high-ranking officials know more than they are telling Congress about the flawed weapons sting.
“The wiretap applications show that immense detail about questionable investigative tactics was available to the senior officials who reviewed and authorized them,” Issa said in a June 5 letter to Holder. “The close involvement of these officials — much greater than previously known — is shocking.”
Who would have guessed that there was corruption afoot? That was a rhetorical question, the entire Fast and Furious operation was nothing but a corrupt state scheme meant to bring in more gun control measures.
When Obama told the Brady Campaign that he was going to work on gun control under the radar everybody assumed he was either placating the gun control zealots or was going to promote gun control through some form of nation campaign. I don’t think anybody expected he would go so far as to authorize an operation that would get people killed and then try to cover the entire mess up. Then again we shouldn’t be too surprised that a psychopath, who ordered the assassination of two American citizens without any form of due process, also authorized an operation that was obviously going to cost lives (what other outcome could have come from arming violent drug cartels).
This new evidence is damning. Not only does it demonstrate higher ups knew about the operation but is also demonstrates that they outright lied about having such knowledge. It also shows the complete disregard for human life the current administration holds. Anybody could have told you what the outcome of arming violent drug cartels was going to be, yet the current administration decided it was OK. I’m sure they feel the ends justify the means.
Ever heard the expression “You can’t see the forest for the trees”? It is so painfully obvious what happened here that a child could see it. And it’s nothing so complicated as the Obama administration trying to provide some backdoor rationalization for further gun control. If they wanted to do that there are a lot of easier ways to go about it. One would think that in the aftermath of recent school shootings or the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords they would have pulled out all the stops with anti-gun propaganda and immediately pushed through gun control legislation if that’s what they wanted. It isn’t their concern. Early in his first year in office Obama even re-approved Bush’s executive order allowing carrying firearms in national parks. He’s no anti-gun nut. Calm down. The answer here is a lot simpler than that.
“Fast and Furious” wasn’t a botched anything. It was a successful gun-smuggling operation run by crooked A.T.F. agents who sold thousands of guns for profit to Mexican drug cartels. When it was discovered they hid behind the ridiculous cover story of it being a “botched sting”. Come on America, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this out. With Eric Holder’s continual stonewalling and refusal to turn over the relevant documents it certainly suggests that he personally approved of the gun-running operation and likely personally profited from it.
Think about it for a moment: If this was an honest sting operation that went awry the A.T.F. would have had its small-arms armorers take apart the receivers (the “main body” of a rifle) and render them unusable, on the same principle as it provides fake explosives to people it sets up for “terrorist” sting operations. It doesn’t give them live explosives, as we have seen time and time again. So if this was what it is being claimed to be the thousands of weapons sold to Mexican drug cartels would have been harmless. As we can see, with the death of at least one Border Patrol agent who was killed by one of these weapons, they most certainly were not rendered unusable. Which by itself blows the “botched sting operation” story out of the water.
Even aside from that ask yourselves how incredibly stupid and naive would someone have to be to approve an operation that ostensibly relies upon being able to track thousands of guns after they’ve been sold to Mexican drug runners and then… what? Swoop into Mexico to confiscate them and arrest the cartel members? Wait until violent crimes are committed with these weapons and hope they get left at the scene of the crime like with the Border Patrol agent killing? What? The mechanics of how this “sting” was purportedly supposed to work are so unworkable as to beggar the imagination. Nobody that gets appointed attorney general is either that dumb or that naive to think this plan was anything other than crooked A.T.F. agents trying to make some money on the side. The question that needs to be asked to Mr. Holder is this: How do you want history to remember you? Because there are only two real choices. You were either someone so incredibly stupid and naive as to not be able to see what this was that you were approving. Or you’re crooked as a dog’s hind leg, knew what this was and approved it anyway because you were getting something out of it. One of the two. So which is it Mr. Holder?
By Holder’s refusal to cooperate with the House investigation it makes it pretty obvious that he was deeply involved in this successful gun-smuggling operation. By Obama’s invocation of executive privilege to try to cover up for him it makes the president an accessory after the fact to this crime. They are both crooked as the day is long and should both be indicted. Period.
Unfortunately your statement is without merit as proof has existed for quite some time now that Fast and Furious was, at least in part, about advancing gun control.
You need to provide evidence to back your claim.
But it does add to the evidence pile that shows Fast and Furious was about advancing gun control. In order to make a case for stricter gun control, especially on the southern border, the guns had to be sourced from local gun shows. In fact agents of the ATF ordered gun store owners to sell firearms when the owners expressed concern about the buyer. This operation was meant to, at least in part, make it appear as though Mexican drug cartels could easily bypass current gun control laws and thus a precedent would exist for establishing more gun control laws.
Never underestimate the stupidity and incompetence of the state.
At least this we agree on.