Operation Fast and Furious has
risen from the grave
by John Hayward 3 Nov 2013, 5:05
AM PDT
Just a couple of days after
Halloween, one of the bloodiest monsters from the Obama Administration's house of horrors groans and shambles
forward, intent on complete the grisly mission that many believe was its true
purpose all along. Matt Boyle reports:
Left-wing activists and officials
within President Barack Obama’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives (ATF), part of Attorney
General Eric Holder’s Department of
Justice (DOJ), attempted this week to reframe Operation Fast and Furious as a problem with America’s gun
laws.
“Stricter U.S. gun measures are needed to stem the flow of
guns to Mexico, where the weapons are
fueling violence and leaving people ‘under siege’ with little hope of help from
their government, activists said Thursday,” according to Chad Garland of
Cronkite News. “In addition to tougher laws, they called for tougher
enforcement by federal officials, who they say have been reluctant to act since
the fallout from Operation Fast and Furious, the failed ‘gun-walking’ operation
by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.”
Students of Operation Fast and
Furious will recall that such cross-border gun crimes were at a fairly low ebb
before the Obama Administration decided to dust off a failed Bush-era concept
for pushing guns with tracking devices into the hands of criminals, make it ten
times larger, and dispense with the tracking devices. The results was more politically useful for
the Administration, but pretty rough on the Mexican people, as well as U.S.
Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. Very
little in the way of the program's stated goals have been accomplished; the
record of arrests it facilitated is thin.
Plenty of the guns remain unaccounted for.
I've never believed Obama,
Attorney General Eric Holder, and the rest of their crew wanted people to
die. That's a result of their arrogance
and incompetence. What they did want was
a string of high-profile gun arrests in Mexico, which they could point to as
evidence that American gun laws needed tightening in numerous ways - many of
which would, of course, have very little connection to the sale of illegal
firearms across the border, because that's how the gun-control movement
rolls. On a good day, maybe half of
their nostrums have a tenuous logical connection to the events they cite as
evidence that no one of good will can argue with them any more.
It's a bit cheeky of the gun
controllers to try resurrecting Operation Fast and Furious at this juncture,
with the Administration at a low ebb in popularity. The public nurses growing rage over the
ObamaCare debacle, and it's not hard to see many of the same features in
Operation Fast and Furious, including Team Obama arrogantly over-estimating its
own abilities, and putting more effort into the post-debacle cover-up than they
did into the program itself. This is an
exceptionally poor time to remind everyone that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' testimony about ObamaCare sounded an awful lot like
Attorney General Eric Holder's testimony on Fast and Furious, right down to the
dog-ate-my-homework excuses, claims that a powerful Washington official had no
idea what his or her own department was up to, and the abuse of executive power
to keep the American people in the dark.
Fast and Furious
Fast and Furious
Note: Holder facing further 'Fast and Furious'
grilling
January 5, 2012
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will testify again before the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee on the Justice Department's response to the
controversial "Fast and Furious"
weapons investigations in which hundreds of guns were "walked" to
drug smugglers in Mexico.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is the attorney general at the U.S.
Department of Justice for the Barack
Obama administration, was a board member for the American Constitution Society, and was an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society,
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member for the International Crisis Group, and the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
the Committee for Economic Development.
Ernesto
Zedillo was a board member for the International
Crisis Group, and the president of Mexico.
Carlos
Pascual was the VP for the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the U.S.
ambassador for Mexico,
and is the special envoy, international energy affairs, assistant secretary
nominee for the U.S. Department of State.
John
F. Kerry is the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, and is married to Teresa Heinz Kerry.
Secretary of State Kerry to sign Arms Trade Treaty
September 25, 2013
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is married to John F. Kerry,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Richard
C. Blum is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to Senator Dianne Feinstein.
NRA-ILA (Dianne Feinstein)
Harold
H. Koh was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the State Department legal adviser for the Barack Obama administration, a lawyer
at Covington & Burling LLP, and
is Howard K. Koh’s brother.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
was a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, and is the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration.
Howard
K. Koh is Harold H. Koh’s
brother, and the assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the Barack Obama administration.
Kathleen Sebelius
is the secretary at the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services for the Barack
Obama administration.
Donna
E. Shalala was the secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a
fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and is a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Donna
S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and an EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
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