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Sadly, congress has no stomach for reining in the BATFE. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking at history, that certainly seems a reasonable conclusion, such conclusions leading to the following question. How high will the bodies pile before congress pulls up it's socks, and does what it is paid to do, which is, among other things, exercise real oversight over government agencies? |
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Right now Holder has said he would cooperate..we know what his word is worth. Time to take legal action and hold him in Contempt if the GOP is serious.
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I believe I read that the committee was not impressed with his offer of "cooperation." |
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Update - I found the article. It was on CNN's web news.
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This is no more than before. He can't disclose stuff implicating himself, Napolitano, FBI and Obama. They knew or had a role in the action. Holder isn't smart enough to pull it off solo or to keep his yap shut about it.
Or so I think.
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Aguila Blanca closed a recent post with the following concerning a House of Representatives Committee, and how it might react to DOJ's and Holder's antics
I believe I read that the committee was not impressed with his offer of "cooperation." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------Were I a member of that committee, I wouldn't be "impressed" either. Alan |
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A few posts above I believe it was suggested that "Fast and Furious" was a program dreamed up by the career BATFE gang in the Phoenix office. I don't buy into that theory. The BATFE appears to be an agency that acts arbitrarily and capriciously, making up rules and interpretations on the fly, but even I acknowledge that they are pretty much dedicated to controlling firearms (often too much dedicated thereto, but that's why I consider them to be fatally flawed.)
The point is, I seriously doubt that a group ("cabal") of career BATFE agents ever decided that running guns into Mexico, where the BATFE has no authority or jurisdiction, would be a good idea and then sold it to their superiors in Phoenix and Washington. Given the current administration's known anti-gun stance, its history of lying about anything and everything, and (perhaps most importantly) Obama's statement that the administration was working on something in the furtherance of gun control "under the radar," to me it seems fairly obvious that "Fast and Furious" was a conspiracy hatched in Washington and handed down the chain of command rather than the other way around. It seems fairly obvious (to me) that the entire point of the program was to get guns into Mexico, where they would be recovered at crime scenes and traced to the United States, thus bolstering the administration's (and Mexico's) bogus claims that most of the guns used by the cartels in Mexico are purchased illegally through gun shops in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Last edited by Aguila Blanca; June 18, 2012 at 12:01 AM. Reason: typo |
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I am also of the opinion that this was not cooked up from below and sent up the chain of command.. Most bureaucrats seem to have little innovation, much less imagination and usually they are against anything that might cause them to loose otherwise super secure jobs that its almost impossible to be removed from..
Half the time I go in a federal office it seems I am the interruption of much net surfing, paper reading and general conversation on anything but work. (The post office is a exception) In fact the last time I went to a federal office I almost swore I insulted someone by asking for help in a office devoid of customers... Heaven forbid a polite request for assistance..... So the way I see this is (My opinion) Mr. Holder conceived of and pushed this agenda in an attempt to create a situation where US citizens were being killed with US guns in such a way the loss of life would be tracked but the gun shop owners would be sold out as providing the weapons and no one would ever admit it was a BATFE operation.. From my view it seems the BATFE went very far to ensure as few records were recorded on the actual operation as possible to create plausible deniability. In my opinion Mr. Holder is a ideological criminal, the end justifies the means.. the end being more anti-gun laws...
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Just a guess... But I expect the "plan" was hatched in AZ with gallant intentions but DC chose to make the "plan" a way to increase gun control...
DC not caring it would make the AZ atf office look like bafoons or the agency in general look like a mafia gun dealer outfit... The hierarchy od DC expecting all of us to be too stupid to see the forest for the trees... Brent |
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While we're on this stuff; the committe has heard some very damning testimony. Why do they not have the guts to insist that the BATFE be reined in? After all Issa's party did promise to rein in the the BATFE. See page 38 of Committe Report dated 14 June, 2011. Quote:
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Like most large operations, it probably went like this.
Someone from higher up (how high up is a question) said: " We need to prove that guns from the US are making their way into Mexico and used in crimes... MAKE IT HAPPEN!!! " And then the plan was hatched to acheive the directive. Where it was hatched is the small part of the problem. Who gave the directive is the larger part of the problem. |
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There are a lot of good people in the BATFE. i'm a long time EOD/UXO tech. i've dealt with the fine folks who are the E in BATFE. They do a fine job of enforcing federal laws on the permitting of users, accounting and storage of explosives.
The SACs of BATFE regional offices are little tin gods. Many years ago the SAC of a BATF regional office tried intimidate a US Army EOD M/Sgt. into lying to a federal judge. That M/Sgt. was me. The DOJ IG criticized agents in the field for their failure to stop guns from going into Mexico. Fast and Furious was the response to that IG criticism. In the minds of senior agents in the Phoenix office; Operation Fast and Furious was a logical extension of Project Gunwalker. There is one very sad aspect of this F&F debacle. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Mexicans have been killed by guns walked into Mexico during operation Fast and Furious. Reams have been written about the murder of one Border Partrol agent with an F&F gun. No one in congress or elswhere seems to care very much about the murders of those Mexicans. Many of the posters here are current and retired agents of the BATFE: http://cleanupatf.org/ |
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Sacrificial lamb. Judas goat. The loyal underling falling on his sword to protect his superiors (who have probably promised to "take care" of him afterwards). Unfortunately, I've been too close to too many Federal investigations to have any faith in what someone like Agent Dobyns says when the logic of the situation clearly indicates that his fairy tale makes no sense whatsoever. Quote:
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It's possible, but not without approval from DOJ, DHS, and the State Department. (which implies that the Whitehouse was in the loop too since it crosses-over multiple cabinets.)
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Haven't heard the possible CIA connection (the idea of arming the Sinoloas so they could fight the Zetas more effectively, indirectly assisting the Mexican government, was purportedly advocated by CIA reps back when this had all started) brought up in quite a while.
If there is any accuracy to that assertion, though, we now would have DOJ, CIA, and very likely State involved. In which case, the ultimate target should not be Holder. |
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The actual operation fits the modus operandi of this administration from the start. Anything that could be done through regulation under a bureau or bureaus to fit the goals of the administration was done. The administration has been and was completely aware that further gun control laws at the federal level would face a lot of resistance without an outcry from the public to take action.
An similar example would be the regulations in the energy industry (newly employed by bureaus) that have cause segments of the coal industry to go under.. No new laws had to be created by the congress. Although this operation was not specifically through regulation, it was the use of a bureau to achieve a goal. I believe this operation was completely to create that outcry for action against guns. Nor do I believe for one moment that the administration was attempting to arm one cartel to fight another.. Cartels have plenty of guns and plenty of less risky way to get them than to enter the US with our multiple levels of law enforcement and surveillance. I think these things are done to achieve an ideological ends witout a lot of thinking about the overall consequences as the ends justifies the means to this administration.. (IMHO)
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in have no doubt Operation Fast and Furious was approved by Holder and Obama. BTW: Phoenix SAC Newell had a friend in the white house: NSC Director of North American Affairs Kevin O'Reilly. To my knowledge O'Reilly has never been questioned by Issa or Grassley.
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Talk about the facts of the case, please. Discussing political blather on the tube or radio is heading for a shut down and we don't want to do that.
I am deleting discussion of some of the blazing intellects of the media.
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The following, which has now and then been mentioned by other posters is that under administrations both Democratic as well as Republican, with congresses including majorities both Democratic as well as Republican, none of the above mentioned have ever acted to really check the antics of the "ATF".
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Border Patrol group calls for Holder’s resignation
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...s-resignation/
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Does anyone know who all has filed FOIA suits in relation to F&F?
Judicial Watch just did: http://www.newsmax.com/US/judicial-w...6/18/id/442681 Gun Owners of America did. I am wondering if any News Agencies have? |
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