Sunday, June 26, 2011

KC Star editorialist criticizes Darrell Issa's "tainted" political motivations. "Shielding indefensible political treason against the Constiution."

Mary Sanchez thinks Darrell Issa's Gunwalker Scandal investigation is all about politics. It is, but not in the way she suggests.

Mary Sanchez, an editorialist for the Kansas City Star, writes that the Gunwalker Scandal was "a gun sting" gone wrong and questions Darrell Issa's motives.

". . . Only with Terry's murder did the heated concerns of ATF agents find any traction. Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Rep. Darrell Issa of California, both Republicans, have issued a report charging that Operation Fast and Furious has "contributed to the increasing violence and deaths in Mexico," a result that was "regarded with giddy optimism by ATF supervisors." More than 38,000 have died in drug violence in Mexico since 2006. . .

Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, began hearings on the ATF operation this month. It is worth asking whether the ATF officials are following best practices in their current Project Gunrunner operations - indeed, whether they would have been so eager to press on with them if it wasn't mostly Mexicans who were dying from the trafficked guns.

But it is also imperative to ask whether Issa's and Grassley's inquisitions aren't motivated - or at the very least tainted - by politics. Issa began his hearings by warning that no testimony would be admitted that commented on gun-control laws or legislation. That's a tell.

Oversight ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D., Md.) countered that "no legitimate examination of this issue will be complete without analyzing our nation's gun laws, which allow tens of thousands of assault weapons to flood into Mexico from the United States every year, including .50-caliber sniper rifles, multiple AK variants, and scores of others."

How much do you want to bet that's a thread that won't be allowed to unravel in this or any hearing in the near future?


You might imagine my response to this. But, here, imagination is not necessary. Here's my email to Ms. Sanchez:

-----Original Message-----
From: georgemason1776
To: msanchez
Cc: jthomas
Sent: Sun, Jun 26, 2011 8:38 am
Subject: re: Your editorial. "Tainted by politics"? The ENTIRE purpose of Gunwalker was politics.

I preface this by giving you my curriculum vita in the Gunwalker Scandal. On 28 December, I was the first blogger to pick up on the scandal and realize its significance. I used my sources within and near ATF to verify the rumor, get the story out to both Senators Sessions and Grassley, link them up with the whistleblowers and the whistleblowers with the media, among them Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News. I have also discovered ATF documents, contacted sources and written analysis pieces that demonstrate that this was an operation conceived and executed at the highest levels of the Obama administration. All of this, I am confident, will be demonstrated at future hearings. That's what I know about the Gunwalker Scandal and its cover-up, having been on the inside and helped create its public beginnings. What I am questioning here is what you actually know about these matters and whether it is enough to inform your editorial writing with any accuracy whatsoever. -- MBV.

Ms. Sanchez,

I have read your editorial.

You apparently have not read the agents' testimony in the 15 June hearing.

There cannot be a "sting gone bad" when there was no sting to begin with. The agents testified that they were repeatedly told not to follow the weapons as they changed hands, even when the transfer was taking place on this side of the border. A "sting" implies developing a case that can lead to the evil bad guys being caught with the evidence in hand, hopefully before they commit a crime. The ATF agents testified that this was not the case, which puts the lie to the management excuse that this was being done to "catch bigger fish." If there was no sting, then what WAS the purpose?

The agents themselves testified that this ran contrary to EVERYTHING they had ever been taught by policy or experience about interdicting firearms trafficking to criminals and that they could not fathom the rationale behind what they knew was going to be a bloody fiasco.

The ENTIRE purpose of the Gunwalker scandal was to facilitate the trafficking of American civilian market firearms to Mexican drug cartels to boost the statistics of weapons seized in Mexico, often at crime scenes beside the dead bodies of Mexican law enforcement officers, their families or other innocents. ATF supervisors actually celebrated this in emails, described by one agent as "giddy" at the prospect that "our" weapons were being discovered at Mexican crime scenes. This was a POLITICAL purpose, to justify further restrictions on American firearm owners. Nothing else makes sense.

You are chiding Darrell Issa, who -- from the testimony now of dozens of ATF agents and DOJ whistleblowers and the thousands of pages of documents that they have turned over to him (unlike the DOJ) unredacted -- understands perfectly that the administration's purpose was a political one designed to lay the PR groundwork for more firearm restrictions and who now simply wishes to get at the truth of a POLITICAL scandal that has killed at least two American law enforcement officers and hundreds of Mexican citizens despite the most determined attempts to cover that up.

Political? You bet your ass it was political. AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION INVENTED IT.

Now, either you didn't pay a damn bit of attention to what the agents testified, don't have the brain cells to understand that this was not "sting gone bad" with some lofty albeit harebrained purpose, or you yourself have a political purpose in casting aspersions on Darrell Issa.

I'm betting on the latter.

For the media has done nothing but shield Barack Obama, even to the point of ignoring while it could the worst political scandal at the federal level ever -- worse than Teapot Dome, Iran-Contra and Watergate rolled into one. Teapot Dome was simply about personal graft. Iran-Contra was about unlawful funding of foreign policy. And although Watergate was, at base, about tampering with the electoral process NO ONE DIED AT THE WATERGATE HOTEL. The Gunwalker Scandal will prove, despite the best efforts of lapdog media outlets such as your own, to have been about the subversion of the Constitutional rights of Americans by creating deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of innocents.

The shame, my dear Ms. Sanchez, is not on Darrell Issa but rather on you and all your lapdog media kind for shielding, then defending, indefensible political treason against the Constitution of the United States.

Mike Vanderboegh
PO Box 926
Pinson AL 35126
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com

18 comments:

DamDoc said...

excellent! somehow i am not expecting a public mea culpa from the lap dog!

Anonymous said...

But it is also imperative to ask whether Issa's and Grassley's inquisitions aren't motivated - or at the very least tainted - by politics.--Ms Sanchez

What?! We are preparing to crucify her Messiah and "inquisitions" is the best she can muster? Is He who walks on water to be questioned by mere mortals for "walking" guns to Mexican drug lords?! Taint not the Impeccable Won, ye infidels!

MALTHUS

Semper Fi, 0321 said...

Amazing how the majority of Amerikans welcome shackles with open arms, and closed minds. They truly deserve their own enslavement. Enabling the slave masters and never realizing that they are also being fitted for new irons!

Anonymous said...

Way to set this lap-dog straight!

With a name like Sanchez, one would think she might be concerned with the fact that over 35,000 citizens in the nation of her ancestry have been caught in the crossfire. Clearly she is to enamored with the Obamamessiah to see this for what it is.

Shame on this harlot of the state.

KPN3%

Bob said...

Well said, indeed.

Anonymous said...

Treason.....

How accurate.

Anonymous said...

Who's the dude in obvious drag get-up in that pic Mike? MY eyes are bleeding now...

CIII

Bad Cyborg said...

What difference do Issa's and Grassley's motivations make so long as they uncover the truth? I have no problem with Issa and Grassley making a few bales of hay from this mess. All politicians are whores and no whore spreads her legs without payment.

I should very much enjoy learning Ms Sanchez's motivation for writing the story. I somehow strongly misdoubt her own motives are all that pure.

I sure wish you had published her email address, Dutchman. I'd like to have had an opportunity to tell her a thing or two. I suspect I am not the only one.

Anonymous said...

I'm sure the deuchebag would feel much differently if someone she knew or a family member were one of the thousands killed.

AvgJoe said...

She has no shame for being a filthy piece of scum who kisses butt with the elitist so she can feel good about herself. She can dance in the blood of the victims of Gunwalker with no shame. I'm sure she has years of experience doing the blood dance in the blood of over 50 million American babies.
She is a perfect example of the trash in the liberal media who are Godless and follow their demo-gods. The golden rule for liberals like her: the ends justify the means.

Dakota said...

Outstanding!!! Well done Mike, it is amazing that these types can even call themselves journalists .... I have a term for them,"useful idiots".

Mark Matis said...

Now, now, now, Mr. Vanderboegh...

You're starting to sound like me addressing this country's "Law Enforcement." I thought you said that was bad?

}:-]

TL671 said...

Bad Cyborg,
here ya go.

msanchez@kcstar.com

Have at it.

Mr Jones said...

Mike, you'd probably have more success explaining calculus to a turnip than spelling out reality to Ms Sanchez.

Anonymous said...

Careful, Gentlemen! We certainly don't want to damage the lady's self esteem. ;-)

Anonymous said...

Ms. Sanchez is obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but at least she's heard of "Fast and Furious". That puts her way ahead of Andres Oppenheimer. He's just now getting around to the 90% myth he seems to have picked up from that paragon of objectivity, The VPC. Pity he's only a MSM stenographer, parroting line by line from their presser. Can you imagine what a real journalist might have done? We still have those, somewhere, don't we?

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/25/2284848/deadlier-us-guns-raise-death-toll.html#disqus_thread

Anonymous said...

Amen to all of above...

B III

W W Woodward said...

I agree with Mr. Jones.

You can lead a whorse to water but you can't make her drink.

She, along with the other brain dead Bozobamas refuse to entertain any facts that might conceivably be contrary to what they feel about their anointed one and his administration.

My guess is that your e-mail was a victim of the [delete] key and not even opened.

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