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"Smoking Gun" In Fast And Furious?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. 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. Because the goal was not to suddenly arrest dozens of narcoterrorists. How could they arrest them? They had no idea where the guns had gone. The writer goes on to speculate about my "Moderate Iranian" theory: There are two possible explanations. The first is that the anti-gun Obama administration deliberately wanted American guns planted in Mexico in order to demonize American firearms dealers and gun owners. The operation was manufacturing “evidence” for the president’s false claim that we’re to blame for the appalling levels of Mexican drug-war violence. That latter theory would not be as bad as the first -- the first theory being essentially a criminal conspiracy against the Second Amendment, American citizens, and a sovereign neighboring nation to boot -- but it would still be plenty bad. Reagan was nearly impeached over Iran/Contra. But one theory we can discard is the Administration's -- the "just a mistake" theory. Not a mistake. What was done here -- letting guns loose -- was not a bug. It was a feature. It was the plan from Jump Street. So if that was the plan, What was the goal? Oh By The Way: 200 people have been murdered with these same guns, possibly as many as 300. Two points flow from this: 1) This wasn't "just a few guns." This was all of them. 2) If there was some sneaky, spectacular bust planned... um, me personally? I would have ordered the Big Bust when the bodycount got up to, uh, say 10. Or maybe last freakin' year when an American border agent got killed. There is no goal of a Big Bust then. So: What. Was. The. Goal? I'm allergic to big conspiracy theories but here, given what we know, I'm not calling the Big Conspiracy Theory crazy. I'm just calling it "premature" and "less likely." But the Administration is lying about the goal of this covert operation with a death toll of 200-300, and no one in the media seems terribly interested in pressing them on this point.
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