I have not had an opportunity to read the report in full but thought others might like to have the opportunity. Please go here for the official DOJ staff report on Operation Fast and Furious.
Do not turn this thread into anti-LEO garbage that will get it closed. This is important information regarding our government and the agency that’s directly responsible for overseeing our current gun laws. I believe this should be read by everyone who has an interest in preserving our 2nd Amendment rights.
I read the whole document last night. Today’s hearing is going to be interesting…I don’t think the administration has an Oliver North type person in the chain. I think this is going to eunich the administration.
This looks like a race between the pro and anti gun people on the hill. On Monday Feinstein was requesting to bring back the AWB because of all of the US guns in criminal hands in Mexico.
Thanks for the link Irish
You’d think with all the other problems that short bus, window-licking state has that she’d have plenty of other places to focus her attention.:rolleyes: In other news, Feinstein promotes bill to ban pencils because they cause kids to misspell words.
I’m hopping on a plane now and will read the PDF file in the air. You can watch the hearings live right now: http://www.c-span.org/Events/Fast-and-Furious-a-Catastrophic-Disaster/10737422274-2/
I’m going to bookmark that report to point to the next time someone says certain groups aren’t out to fuck us on absolute purpose.
End of story.
Godspeed, and here’s to keeping the TSA’s thumbs out of your ass.
Thanks for the head’s up on this report. You’re right–this is a must-read for all 2nd Amendment defenders.
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Thank you for the link, Irish.
It will be interesting to see how the media covers this story on the nightly news.
I’m tuned into Fox news now to see if they’ll have anything on it, I’m rather skeptical.
If there is a bright side here, at least it will take the air out of the argument that US gun owners are responsible for gun crime in Mexico.
I’ve been keeping tabs some what on this whole outrage. Holder’s head should role for this as well at the BATFE.
You guys are forgetting, being a Democrat means living without consequences. Heads don’t roll when Dems get up to this kind of crap.
I seriously doubt this investigation will do anything. Even if they find the proverbial smoking gun in the hands of higher ups in the administration the Obamunists will shuck and jive their way out of it. Hell, we’ll probably start hearing how it’s racist to investigate the first “black” Attorney General, and that’ll be that. The Repugs will start falling over themselves trying to prove they ‘heart’ black people and the investigation will just kind of evaporate. In 6 months the official pol line will be, “What investigation?”
I downloaded the pdf and plan on reading it this weekend.
I watched the hearings on either CSPAN or CSPAN2 last night. It was obvious from the first few minutes that this whole operation was so ill-conceived and ill-advised that it definitely looks like a political maneuver to make damn sure that guns recovered in Mexico are traced to the US as a way to advance more anti-gun legislation. Either that or our government higherups really are that stupid.
I think that this was the drive behind Fast & Furious. Letting the guns walk to another country that you don’t have jurisdiction over and not involving that country’s leadership…
Back in 2009 Feinstein said:
Feinstein said she’s going to hold off, for now, but vowed she would eventually push the issue. “I’ll pick the time and the place, no question about that,” she told Stahl.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/09/60minutes/main4931769.shtml#ixzz1PSAMF841
From last Monday:
[i]Feinstein was joined in her call by Sens. Charles Schumer, D-New York, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island.
In a letter this month to Feinstein, the ATF acknowledged that the United States keeps no record of criminal firearms seized in Mexico and that “the Mexican government does not submit every recovered firearm to ATF for tracing.”[/i]
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/14/mexico.guns/index.html?iref=allsearch
If they can prove that this was collusion in our government to create or exacerbate the problem of US guns going to Mexico in order to advance legislation, then I’m optimistic it will do to the credibility of the gun control people what the leaked e-mails did to the credibility of the global warming people. In other words, we may be on the cusp of the gun control advocates being forever discredited in the eyes of the public.
As far as ATF scandals, this is already bigger than Ruby Ridge or Waco because we already know that ATF screwed up. That isn’t even up for debate. The hearings are just to determine why.
This. It’s been about this from the beginning.
Don’t trust any of these cocksuckers.
Occam’s razor
I agree with you that it is in fact a move to justify more gun laws and crack down on gun stores. However, are “they” the stupid ones or do they just believe that the vast majority of Americans are that stupid? Maybe it’s a combination of the two.
Thanks for the link. I have been following this debacle since it first came to light. From the start the ONLY reasoning I could see behind this was as a way to push for more gun control. What other possible explanation could there be for anyone to even consider an operation like this.