Saturday - July 09, 2011

The Smoking Gun

Absolute proof that Gunwalker / Fast & Furious was official government policy at least as far back as March 24, 2009. Here’s their own press release:

The full video is at CSPAN

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg and Deputy Attorney General David Ogden held a news conference to announce the U.S.-Mexico Border Security Policy. They spoke to reporters and answered questions about plans to send about 500 more agents and equipment to the nation’s southwestern border and Mexico to fight Mexican drug cartels and keep violence from spilling over into the United States.

There is no question whatsoever that everyone from the very top on down was aware of this. Which means Holder absolutely lied to Issa’s investigation. Under the bus!

And of course the obvious follows: here comes Obama’s new anti-gun measures. Not done by law. Who needs that? They’ll be done by presidential directive.

WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — Six months after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot, the White House is preparing to propose some new steps on gun safety, though they’re likely to fall short of the bold measures activists would like to see.

Spokesman Jay Carney said that the new steps would be made public “in the near future.” He didn’t offer details, but people involved in talks at the Justice Department to craft the new measures said they expected to see something in the next several weeks. Whatever is proposed is not expected to involve legislation or take on major issues, like banning assault weapons, but could include executive action to strengthen the background check system or other steps.

More fun: The ATF started all this with Operation Gunrunner back in 2005, and by 2006 it was national policy. Read their own public document:

To help combat firearms trafficking into Mexico, ATF began Project Gunrunner as a pilot project in Laredo, Texas, in 2005 and expanded it as a national initiative in 2006. Project Gunrunner is also part of the Department’s broader Southwest Border Initiative, which seeks to reduce cross-border drug and firearms trafficking and the high level of violence associated with these activities on both sides of the border.
In June 2007, ATF published a strategy document, Southwest Border Initiative: Project Gunrunner (Gunrunner strategy), outlining four key components to Project Gunrunner: the expansion of gun tracing in Mexico, international coordination, domestic activities, and intelligence. In implementing Project Gunrunner, ATF has focused resources in its four Southwest border field divisions. In addition, ATF has made firearms trafficking to Mexico a top ATF priority nationwide.
The OIG conducted this review to evaluate the effectiveness of ATF’s implementation of Project Gunrunner. Our review examined ATF’s enforcement and regulatory programs related to the Southwest border and Mexico, ATF’s effectiveness in developing and sharing firearms trafficking intelligence and information, the number and prosecutorial outcomes of ATF’s Project Gunrunner investigations, ATF’s coordination with U.S. and Mexican law enforcement partners, ATF’s traces of Mexican “crime guns,” and challenges that ATF faces in coordinating efforts to combat firearms trafficking with Mexico.

Heck, that document shows that they even did analysis, and concluded that to better their operation they would have to increase the amount of information they were already sharing with other law enforcement departments:

The success of Project Gunrunner depends, in part, on ATF’s sharing intelligence with its Mexican and U.S. partner agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Although ATF has shared some strategic intelligence products with each of its partner agencies, it is not doing so systematically and consistently. ATF does share tactical intelligence regularly with the DEA and DHS’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP).3 However, ATF has not provided Mexican law enforcement with intelligence it requested on firearms trafficking patterns and trends, including trafficking routes and distribution points where guns are crossing into Mexico.

I think it’s time to stop playing “I didn’t know nothing ‘bout that” at all levels of the government. They knew. They ALL knew. Years ago. The only real question is who knew that the actual execution of this project was so idiotic, or who knew when it went bad when it went bad.

Because it went bad, and there’s no doubt about that. Perhaps it was bad from the beginning, and not one LE type in even one branch of government had the smarts to see that the plan was deeply flawed from the inception.

Oh, more fun ... but I’d take this with a grain of salt, as I’m not sure about the veracity of the Prison Planet web site, and I realize that a bandito will say anything under interrogation by the federales south of the border: Mexican cartel says it bought guns DIRECTLY from US Government:

Los Zetas Kingpin: We Bought Guns Directly From U.S. Government
One of the kingpins of the infamous Los Zetas drug running gang has told Mexican federal police that the group purchased its weapons directly from U.S. government officials inside America, a revelation that will only serve to heighten suspicions that the Obama administration’s Operation Fast and Furious program was a deliberate attempt to undermine the Second Amendment by stealth.
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according to the testimony of Rejón Aguilar, one of the original seven members of Los Zetas who was recently captured by police, in some cases Mexican drug gangs did not have to wait until the firearms reached the border – they purchased guns directly from the US government itself inside America.

In an interview with Mexican federal police that was later uploaded to You Tube and translated, Aguilar sensationally blows the whistle on how the Zetas’ weapons were obtained straight from U.S. federal authorities.

“They are bought in the U.S. The buyers (on the U.S. side of the border) have said in the past that sometimes they would acquire them from the U.S. Government itself,” Aguilar told police.

Crap, there’s still more. I can’t get to the bottom of this damn story because it just keeps getting bigger by the hour. From AmmoLand, the online news page of the Shooting Sports Federation - essentially the voice of the gun industry it seems - comes the story that once Melson is gone, the new ATF chief will be anti-gun zealot and Chicago crony Andrew Traver. The audacity of these bastards is limitless. Caught with a great big bear trap snapped across their asses, they still push their agenda as if nothing has happened at all. That’s gall enough to be divided into 1000 parts, not just the usual 3.

ATF acting Director Kenneth Melson has been conspiring with king corruptocrat Eric Holder to walk thousands of high caliber rifles across the border. These firearms were then handed off to drug cartels, while the two buddies sat in their offices in Washington DC. Unfortunately, their political scheme had some pretty big collateral damage. Besides the collection of guns that ended up in the possession of violent Mexican gangs, the ATF ran into bigger problems. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry ended up dead – shot down by the very guns the ATF was sneaking across the border!

“Project Gunrunner” is the perfect storm for Obama. First, he’ll get to act like the good guy when he kicks Melson to the curb. Then, while everyone is cheering that Melson is gone, he will sneak Andrew Traver in as Director of the ATF. They’ll at least have two things in common - Chicago-style politics and Chicago-style radicalism.

There is no excuse for Obama to use an unthinkable tragedy/bizarre scandal to push yet another one of his far-left nominations. He is DELIBERATELY nominating Andrew Traver – a man who has demonstrated over and over again that he is anti-gun, anti-self-defense and anti-freedom.

Marvelous.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/09/2011 at 10:48 AM   
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