Is anyone going to cover this?
This just might be the smoking gun we’ve been waiting for to break the festering “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal wide open: the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apparently ordered one of its own agents to purchase firearms with taxpayer money, and sell them directly to a Mexican drug cartel.Let that sink in: After months of pretending that “Fast and Furious” was a botched surveillance operation of illegal gun-running spearheaded by the ATF and the US attorney’s office in Phoenix, it turns out that the government itself was selling guns to the bad guys.
Agent John Dodson was ordered to buy four Draco pistols for cash and even got a letter from his supervisor, David Voth, authorizing a federally licensed gun dealer to sell him the guns without bothering about the necessary paperwork.
“Please accept this letter in lieu of completing an ATF Form 4473 for the purchase of four (4) CAI, Model Draco, 7.62×39 mm pistols, by Special Agent John Dodson,” read the June 1, 2010, letter. “These aforementioned pistols will be used by Special Agent Dodson in furtherance of performance of his official duties.”
On orders, Dodson then sold the guns to known criminals, who first stashed them away and then — deliberately unhindered by the ATF or any other agency — whisked them off to Mexico.
I think it was Dodson who specifically attempted to defy orders and surveil the safe-house where these guns were stored. But he was stopped.
This is the problem here, and this has been the problem from the start: This was not a “botched surveillance mistake” as the Administration is trying to peddle. The ATF goons in charge of this deliberately allowed the guns to be delivered into the hands of narcoterrorists with no surveillance whatsoever.
This is not a case where they watched 2000 guns, but lost 25 guns due to the inevitable problems with 24/7 surveillance. And that, oh bad luck, some of those 25 lost guns were used in crimes, such as the murder of Brian Terry.
They didn’t watch any of them. Mexico wasn’t even in the loop, so how the hell could they have watched where the guns went on the Mexican side of the border?
They didn’t “lose” 2000 guns. They intended to let 2000 guns loose.
Why? This is the question, which the media does not seem interested in at all. And because the media isn’t interested in asking why, the Administration gets away with the false cover story that this is just the story of a few guns going missing, while the other 1975 guns were always under the watchful eye of surveillers.
Why were all 2000 guns not lost but rather loosed?
What.
Was.
The.
Goal.
Scribbled on that letter is this note:
ATF group supervisor David Voth disapproved Dodson’s request for 24-hour surveillance and ordered the surveillance team to return to the office.
Dodson stayed behind, against orders. A week later, when a vehicle showed up to transfer the weapons to their ultimate destination, he called for an interdiction team to move in, seize the weapons and arrest the traffickers. Voth refused, and the guns disappeared without surveillance.
Voth was “jovial, if not giddy, but just delighted about” such guns showing up at crime scenes in Mexico, according to Dobson’s testimony before Rep. Darrel Issa’s House Oversight Committee.
Another ATF agent, Olindo James Casa, said that “on several occasions I personally requested to interdict or seize firearms, but I was always ordered to stand down and not to seize the firearms.”
Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, who would resign said, “The president has directed us to take action to fight these cartels and Attorney General Holder and I are taking several new and aggressive steps as part of the administration’s comprehensive plan.”
Ogden said the administration’s plan, at the president’s direction, included the ATF’s “increasing its efforts by adding 37 new employees in three new offices, using $10 million in Recovery Act funds and redeploying 100 personnel to the Southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify its Project Gunrunner,” of which Operation Fast and Furious would be a part.
This is at IBD
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=586209&p=1
A quick NEWS outlet search gives only 92 sources for ”gunrunner.”
Another (or the same) 92 for ”gunwalker.”
Again 92 for ”fast And furious.”
And only 82 for “ATF scandal.”
Some of the media covering this includes:
LA Times,
Forbes,
CBS News,
Daily Caller,
Fox news,
LubbockOnLine,
NY Post,
Some of the ones listed are older.
For a contrast, Ashton and Demi are in the news.
592 news outlets are covering them.
ObamaCare is being appealed to the Supreme Court: 1,226 news outlets are covering that.
Hugo Chavez’ kidneys have failed; 404 news outlets are covering that.
The goal was purely political.
The objective was to DO SOMETHING.
What, precisely, was done was irrelevant.
And it looked good on paper, at least to experts unfamiliar with any aspect of border security or law enforcement or the courts or anything else.
This is the government one gets from Czars.
The consequence should be the removal of Obama and Holder from their positions of public trust.
The public trust has been disregarded and violated.
And people have died.
How many deaths does it take to bring down an Administration?
Give me a number.
The goal was to reduce/take away our second amendment rights. Any attempt to say otherwise falls right into the other lies coming from the administration. The Head of the DOJ and the Exec. office were both fully aware of the project. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear the idea came form the Oval office. (I say this because of speeches given by the Pres. and AG back in 2009 & 2010) The left has been trying for years to reduce the American population’s access and possession of firearms. To paraphrase the words of an ex-pres of the NRA……from my cold dead hands…………….
Re number of deaths to take down an administration — weeell — I lost count during the last demoRAT admin