David Codrea: George S. on the DeLeon "hearing" plus a second report from another Threeper who was there.

The DeLeon "hearing." Photo courtesy of George S.

Readers will recall David Codrea's column, Will CA Senate ‘committee’ even mention Gunwalker in de León media stunt? You may also recall my call for Threepers to attend and ask questions. At least two did so.

David passes along Threeper George S.' tapes of the meeting and questions afterward: De León Mexican ‘gun flow’ meeting confirms predictions

In addition, we have this report from "Irregular LA Correspondent."

Putting on a show...

In summary, today's event was strictly a show to market De Leon's idea of ammunition ID checks (handgun only, mein Freund) and registration for any buyer in California and for other states to adopt or push federally. Does Senator Kevin De Leon not remember that California Bill, AB 962, his authored bill, was ruled unconstitutional? Yes he does, but that will not stop this show.

Let me set the stage for the event at the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Los Angeles on October 25, 2011. The panel was held in the ground floor auditorium. I enter the room a quarter past 10 and to my ears' surprise the meeting is being conducted in... Spanish! The lead moderator/chairman/senator Kevin De Leon, later shifted back to English. Kevin De Leon sits at a black draped table, center stage, while his "guests" sit below stage, at tables I'd consider to be the orchestra
pit. While this arrangement was trying to mimic Congressional hearings, what it did was put the panelists out of the stage light, and their backs to the audience. It looked like De Leon enjoyed his superior position and role.

The auditorium looks to hold about 500 seats and the audience of 50-60 looks entirely Hispanic except for a camera guy or two and another Anglo. I assume De Leon had his followers attend his event. I presumed bused-in since they all stuck together after the show. Pardon my stereotyping but it really seemed like I was intruding in on a family reunion or such. Most were middle-aged family folk, the kind politicians need to show to viewers at home that he's a "trusted one". After kissing babies, having salt-of-the-earth people next to him really makes him
stand out. But I could feel the pride this community has for De Leon. He is a double for Erik Estrada and probably a Mexican version of Gov Perry. I hope that his followers can see through his suave exterior.

Just looking at the bigger picture, this meeting was trying to again push for failed policy with the same song of give up your liberties and you'll be more secure.

There was even the token 'crying baby' singing for the show. The women behind me gasped on cue every time De Leon decried a new statistic. If I had to drink a beer every time someone on the panel said assault weapon, I would be pronounced dead. After the show, the ushered audience awaited his multiple news interviews and they didn't seem troubled when De Leon sends one of his minions to talk to a reporter about how the NRA is terrible and nasty by helping criminals get guns and ammo.

To answer David Codrea's question "Will CA Senate ‘committee’ even mention "Gunwalker?" the answer is no [link1]. But it is a technical no. Because when it came time to explaining why BATFE Special Agent John A. Torres was not able to attend, the response (paraphrased) was someone [in ATF] told him not to come. So it was implied that Torres could not attend because his superiors feared something (wink, wink) might be [mis?]spoke. But Special Agent John Marsh of Bureau of Firearms in the California DOJ did show to help dramatize the (everyone tremble here)
"private party legal weapons sales" occurring just over the Nevada and Arizona borders. De Leon continued to interrupt Marsh's statements like a high school theater major reading his lines during the show, asking: 'is this legal?' and 'it's legal?'

It was odd how the panelists seems to know exactly what to talk about and what not to talk about. No one mentioned nor offered alternative strategies for managing the criminal element related to the drug-guns-money circle. These concepts were verboten. State Department's giving military weapons to Mexico and then said weapons and trained personnel actually being cartel was not addressed. Furthermore, the decriminalizing of marijuana, enlisting help from civilians, or helping to train and arm Mexican farmers/citizens all were subjects which were never addressed by this "panel". It really appeared that there was a "ban ammo sales" taking points memo before the show.

Of course LEO's were all too willing to announce the beauty of the kings clothes and how desperately they are in need of new threads themselves. Each parroted the terrible and soon to be tragic amount of ammunition running around in California, the rogue gun dealers willing to sell ammo to anyone including criminals and the ease to which one could go to neighboring states and buy said destructive, dangerous and deadly projectiles and projectile launchers. Each parrot pleaded from De Leon
for more laws and more money. Sheriff Lee "no CCW (or OC) for you" Baca, applauded California Governor Jerry Brown's signing of AB 144, the civilian ban on open carry in the state. While Mr. Baca came late and left early, he did manage to share the lighter side of himself, stating he once was a NRA member and was on the rifle and pistol team in the Marines. Understanding this background, one would expect Mr. Baca, to help create a win-win situation with law abiding gun owners, not support attacks on their constitution liberties. But we see Alan Greenspan's 1977 doctorate thesis [link 2] of a gold standard did not stand the scrutiny of the federal reserve when he took the job. What was Capt. David Myers, San Diego's Sheriff's Department, summary solution? To pass legislation that decriminalizes illegal border entry, herein crafted as "guest worker program" and to remove the nonviable border/virtual fence, so his team could focus on the hard crimes like the running of drugs, money and guns. Myers supports De Leon's push for ammo ID checks.

The event ending with multiple Spanish speaking reporters and their "investigative" reporters pressing De Leon for comments (in Spanish).

De Leon knows handgun ammo ID checks "are not a panacea" [quote] but understands the bigger mission of working under the radar [paraphrase].

Behind enemy lines,
-Irregular LA Correspondent

[link1]
http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/will-ca-senate-committee-even-mention-gunwalker-de-le-n-media-stunt

[link2]
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/3167-greenspans-implausible-denial

Issa, Gowdy & Chaffetz grill Napolitano.

Snitch Operations in Mexico. Think this story is coincidental? "Hey, we be doin' great things with our snitches."

U.S. Agencies Infiltrating Drug Cartels Across Mexico.

Defending snitch operations in Mexico.

American law enforcement agencies have significantly built up networks of Mexican informants that have allowed them to secretly infiltrate some of that country’s most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations, according to security officials on both sides of the border.

As the United States has opened new law enforcement and intelligence outposts across Mexico in recent years, Washington’s networks of informants have grown there as well, current and former officials said. They have helped Mexican authorities capture or kill about two dozen high-ranking and midlevel drug traffickers, and sometimes have given American counternarcotics agents access to the top leaders of the cartels they are trying to dismantle.

Typically, the officials said, Mexico is kept in the dark about the United States’ contacts with its most secret informants — including Mexican law enforcement officers, elected officials and cartel operatives — partly because of concerns about corruption among the Mexican police, and partly because of laws prohibiting American security forces from operating on Mexican soil.

So, do you think this story appearing in the NYT this week is coincidental? The Leviathan is saying, "Hey, we be doin' great things with our snitches. Keep your damn hands off, Congress."

Awaiting comments on a major development in the Gunwalker investigation.

More later.

"Only Ones" as gun smugglers? Heaven forfend! Mayor Mike's Major Embarrassment.

Your federal tax dollars at work.

The arrests stem from an FBI-NYPD internal affairs investigation that began in 2009 when a paid FBI informant tipped off authorities that an 18-year NYPD veteran, William Masso, was interested in making money by transporting stolen goods. In the months that followed, the informant and an undercover investigator posing as the ringleader began supplying the defendants and others cigarettes - purportedly stolen out of state - for resale in New York, the criminal complaint says.

Court papers described the informant as a non-U.S. citizen who "has been assisting the FBI in exchange for payment and aid in remaining in the United States."

B. Todd explains that it is not necessary to get to the bottom of government gunrunning in order to put the competition out of business.

Definition of AWRY
1: in a turned or twisted position or direction : askew
2: off the correct or expected course : amiss

ATF boss: Despite ‘awry’ gun case, crackdown will continue.

The new acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives pledged Tuesday to continue a crackdown on firearms trafficking from the United States to Mexico — despite embarrassing revelations about an ATF gun probe on the Southwest border.

B. Todd Jones, the U.S. attorney in Minneapolis, was appointed about seven weeks ago as acting ATF director. He was in Chicago for a convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Jones, who will remain U.S. attorney in Minneapolis as he runs ATF, said he’s been busy dealing with the fallout over Operation Fast and Furious, a subject of inquiries by Congress and the Justice Department.

Beginning in 2009, ATF agents allowed licensed gun dealers to sell weapons to illegal “straw purchasers” in an effort to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders. Yet the agents reportedly lost track of more than 2,000 firearms, two of which were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.

Earlier this month, Jones announced several high-level ATF management changes linked to the scandal. But in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, he said the inquiries into Fast and Furious won’t hinder gun cases the government is prosecuting in border states.

“There was firearms trafficking going on from the United States to Mexico before this case went awry,” Jones said. “And there will be going forward. Our job as a law enforcement agency is to do the best job we can to disrupt and dismantle organizations and individuals who are engaged in that business. And that’s not going to stop.”

What motivates an arrogant bureaucracy with badges and guns to do nothing? The Symbiotic Relationships Formed by the FBI and Congresscritters.

"There is no evidence in the released documents that the FBI pursued any of these cases."

"FBI Saw Dark Side of Rep. John Murtha."

And did nothing. What motivates an arrogant bureaucracy with badges and guns to do nothing? What do you suppose they got for doing nothing? Do you really think the days of the Hoover files are over?

SSI Exclusive: Meetings, Part 7. 11 March 2011. Andrea Howard, ATF, and the "Third Gun." "A complete state of factional denial."

Lawrence A. "Larry" Gaydos, Attorney at Law.

"Things like this happen because of meetings. People sit in meetings and they decide what they want to happen. And then they take decisions, make policy and implement that policy to achieve those ends." He added, "That's why State is so nervous. They signed off on this. In a meeting." -- Old Spook.

It is Friday, 11 March 2011. The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami is devastating Japan. At the U.S. Attorney's office in Phoenix, Lawrence A. "Larry" Gaydos, of the high power Dallas law firm Haynes and Boone, his client Andre Howard, federal firearms licensee and owner of the Lone Wolf Trading Company sit down to a meeting with Assistant United States Attorney Emory Hurley, his boss Michael Morrissey (who will later be interviewed by an oddly amnesiac Arizona Governor Jan Brewer for an Arizona judgeship), ATF supervisor Jim Needles, ATF Group VII supervisor Tonya English and other lesser mortals. The meeting has been asked for by Attorney Gaydos. His Haynes and Boone bio reads as follows:

Larry Gaydos is a partner in the White Collar Defense/Antitrust Practice Group at Haynes and Boone. He has extensive experience in white collar criminal defense and government investigations, including antitrust, federal securities, defense procurement, foreign trade, environmental and general criminal matters. He also has extensive experience in civil antitrust litigation, antitrust counseling, internal investigations, and federal criminal appeals.

Mr. Gaydos, in short, is no inexperienced slouch when it comes to either federal scandals or cover-ups. By this time in the scandal, Andre Howard was concerned about his safety say federal sources familiar with the investigation. Between the letters written by Senator Grassley to ATF Acting Director Melson and surveillance video played on CBS News, Howard was convinced his identity was known and that he would be a target of retaliation.

"Morrissey did most of the talking for the Feds," said one source who was not there but who had knowledge of the investigation, adding that "Tonya English said nothing but kept copious notes."

Most of the time, meetings in a bureaucracy are held to either establish a policy or to execute it. Sometimes, especially when the bureaucracy itself doesn't call the meeting, it is about covering up the dangerous consequences of a policy gone wrong.

There were a number of things that Howard and Gaydos knew going into this meeting, according to the sources. Howard knew that the two Kalashnikovs that had been found at the Terry murder scene traced back to his shop. He also knew that a "third gun" had been found at the scene, and that it was an SKS that traced back to Texas. These facts he knew from ATF agents directly after the Terry killing.

Yet, to a man, the DOJ and ATF participants in the meeting sought to reassure Howard and his attorney that none of the weapons found at the murder scene had come from Lone Wolf and, more incredibly, they maintained that all of the weapons that had come from Howard's gun shop had been interdicted before they went across the Mexican border.

Howard, the sources say, had previously been told that by Hurley and at this meeting that falsehood was backed up by Morrissey.

"They were in a complete state of factional denial," said one source, adding, "They kept insisting that everything Dodson and the other whistleblowers were saying were lies," and that "the real truth would come out in the trials of the straw buyers."

According to a source familiar with the recollections of the meeting by its participants, "There were people in that room, and not just Gaydos and Howard, who knew that . . . it was bullshit and completely ridiculous."

Notes taken by Tonya English, at least those turned over to the Oversight Committee, do not reflect those statements, however. Although English was reported to have taken "copious notes," according to one source, the notes turned over to the committee are said to be a mere list of meeting participants. This column attempted to contact Ms. English and other meeting participants by email about the discrepancy, but as of this writing they have not responded.

Where did the notes go? "I guess you'll have to ask English that," said the federal source. "It isn't the first document that disappeared in this investigation and it won't be the last."

Ironically, according to all the sources, AUSA Hurley, while denying the obvious, admitted an even more dangerous fact.

"Howard told the meeting that he knew there was a third gun found at the scene and that it had been traced," said one source, adding, "Hurley admitted that there was but said that neither it nor the AKs came from Lone Wolf so Howard didn't have anything to worry about."

Neither Howard nor Gaydos was that stupid. It was also in early March that Howard began taping ATF Group VII supervisor Hope MacAllister, tapes where MacAllister also admits that there was a third gun.

"I think Gaydos knew that DOJ was taking a completely untenable position," said one federal source. "Factually, it just was not credible."

He added, "Morrissey made promises" about helping guard Andre Howard's shop and home against potential threats" (the initial reason for the meeting), but "later on they proved to be a complete hoax as well."

"The one thing that was clear in the meeting," said the source, "was that (Gaydos) put the DOJ and ATF on notice that they didn't want to be caught in a fight between the Congress and the DOJ" and that if put under oath, Howard "would testify as to what he knew to be true -- the traces, the third gun and the lies about the weapons being interdicted" -- regardless of what the DOJ would insist.

The meeting, then, did not turn out the way the DOJ planned. Recognizing that Andre Howard would not "play ball," DOJ may have decided that they had no incentive to protect Andre Howard from Mexican cartel killers.

Said the federal source, "The longer this drags out, the bolder the DOJ and ATF management gets" about "retaliation against witnesses." "The committee needs to do a better job of shielding these guys" like Dodson and Howard, said the source, "or they aren't going to be around to testify much longer."

Secret police. If they can postpone answering Gunwalker Scandal requests until they get this rule in place, we will never find out the truth.

Justice Dept. proposes lying, hiding existence of records under new FOIA rule.

Call, email and write your Congresscritters NOW. If they adopt this rule, they must be defunded. See how they like going without paychecks. Frigging secret policemen. I despise their kind.

Maybe they could try covering the Gunwalker Scandal.

NBC Unable to Shake Slide in Ratings.

Competitors are faring better. Through four weeks, Walt Disney Co.'s ABC is down 5.8% among viewers 18-to-49 in prime-time, CBS Corp.'s eponymous network is down 2.3% and News Corp.'s Fox Broadcasting is up 11%, according to the latest Nielsen data.

"The global debt apocalypse approaches."

Losing the Economic Battle.

Got militia?

"They still protect their snitches - always." Federal judge: "Bulger’s most trusted associate - the Boston FBI office - has gotten away with murder."

"Would I lie to you about killer snitches?" (You bet yer ass I would.)

Readers will recall that a source of mine recently characterized the FBI's paid confidential informant who likely killed Border Patrol agent Brian Terry as "The Mexican Whitey Bulger," saying "They still protect their snitches - always."

Earlier this month, I missed an important milestone in the never-ending Whitey Bulger case. Writing in the Boston Globe, columnist Kevin Cullen observed that 1st Federal Circuit Court of Appeals was "on the wrong side of the law."

Tommy Donahue was beside himself.

“Are we ever going to get justice?’’ he asked.

Apparently not. Not from the FBI. Not from the US Justice Department. And now it appears, not from the courts.

Tommy Donahue’s father, Michael, was collateral damage in the FBI’s cynical embrace of the gangster known as Whitey Bulger. After the FBI tipped off Bulger, its informant, that a hoodlum named Brian Halloran was shopping him for a murder, Bulger set up an elaborate plan to murder Halloran.

Unfortunately for Michael Donahue, Bulger moved in for the kill one day in May 1982 just as Donahue was giving Halloran a ride home to Dorchester from a waterfront bar. The bullets that killed Halloran killed Michael Donahue, too, leaving Patricia Donahue a widow and Tommy and his brothers Michael and Shawn fatherless.

It would take a book to explain the tortured road the Donahues have walked, trying to get justice for their husband and father. Two federal judges ordered the Justice Department to settle with the family, saying the FBI was egregiously responsible for getting Michael Donahue killed. But the Justice Department went on to spend more in litigation than the $6 million federal judge William Young eventually awarded the family.

The government, shameless and unrepentant, dragged the Donahues through the mud for years. The government appealed and appealed and finally got lucky last winter when, by a 2-to-1 vote, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled the Donahues filed their claim against their government too late. The two judges who ruled against the Donahues said - and I’m not making this up - that they should have read the papers a little more closely.

Yesterday, a very divided full First Circuit refused to hear the Donahues’ appeal. That means they don’t get the money, but, more importantly, they don’t get any justice. They have been slapped in the face, again, by their own government.

“It’s outrageous,’’ Tommy Donahue said.

And of course, he is right. And again it was Judge Juan Torruella, who dissented from last winter’s opinion, who rose to defend the Donahues and to accuse his colleagues on the bench of rewarding the most heinous government corruption by looking the other way.

Torruella noted that Bulger has been caught and will answer for his crimes.

“But unlike Bulger himself, thanks to the panel majority’s decision and the full court’s refusal to reverse it, Bulger’s most trusted associate - the Boston FBI office - has gotten away with murder,’’ Torruella wrote. “The moral of this outcome seems to be that crime does pay, at least for the government.’’

Torruella spoke of a big picture.

“Beyond its implications for the Donahue and Halloran families,’’ he wrote, “this case has thrust renewed attention on the FBI’s reliance on confidential criminal informants and the obvious ways in which this relationship can become too cozy for comfort.’’

Torruella couldn’t possibly have known this, but at approximately the same time his words were released, a motion in another case was filed across town in Suffolk Superior Court.

In his motion asking for a full hearing for his clients, Attorney Bob George pulled back yet another layer of skin on the new Whitey Bulger case: the FBI’s use of Mark Rossetti, a suspect in at least six murders, as an informant.

Citing a sealed affidavit filed by state prosecutors, George’s motion puts into the public domain what state and local police sources told me months ago: that in late December 2008 or January 2009, an FBI supervisory agent lied to the State Police when the Staties asked him whether Rossetti was working for the FBI. (Emphasis supplied, MBV.)

Get that? Years after Bulger got away with the help of the FBI, years after the FBI's continual assistance to Bulger, their shielding of Bulger -- all to protect a snitch who had enmeshed them in his own murders -- the FBI is STILL shielding Boston mob snitches that they cultivated -- and continue to cultivate.

Cullen continues:

So the FBI’s embrace of a murderous informant 29 years ago got Michael Donahue killed. Its more recent embrace of a suspected murderer named Mark Rossetti has imperiled the criminal charges against Rossetti and a host of other reputed criminals.

So, as Judge Torruella put it, this is not just about the injustice done to the Donahues. This is about the way the FBI does business with informants. This isn’t ancient history. This is now.

Brian Terry could tell you that, from the perfect knowledge he has in Heaven, but unfortunately the actions of another FBI paid confidential information who Robert Mueller and Company are still shielding, took him away from us -- from his family and from the country he loyally served.

That the FBI would betray all other law enforcement officers -- federal, state and local -- in order to protect themselves and their snitches is nothing new and no secret.

The only question is, how long are those other law enforcement officers, especially those with damning knowledge of the murder of Brian Terry and the Gunwalker Conspiracy, going to remain silent in the face of such treason to the country and to the oaths that they all took to defend her against all enemies foreign and domestic?

The FBI is willing to murderously play you for suckers, guys and girls. They could give a shit less who gets killed as long as they and their killer snitches are protected. They have demonstrated that with the killings of Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata and thousands of Mexican citizens. Do you think that their depraved indifference to murder DOESN'T include you?

Nevada "Only Ones" want military-pattern semi-autos out of the hands of citizens.

"I think it's a good question to ask: Why does a typical citizen need to have an assault weapon?"

Nevada National Guard Sgt. Caitlin Kelley, one of the victims in the IHOP attack, responded to the shooting by calling for a ban on assault weapons, which can be purchased without a background check at many gun shows or through private sellers.

"I can't imagine why we are even selling assault weapons to civilians," said Kelley, who was shot in the foot and still uses a wheelchair. "There's no reason for an AK-47 or an M-16 or an M-4 to be in a civilian's home."

Washoe County Sheriff Mike Haley agreed, saying: "I don't see any logic to having assault weapons available to the public." But he said banning such weapons would spark a sharp response by gun-rights advocates.

Cornyn urging wider probe of ‘Fast and Furious’

“I fear that ATF may have pressured other FFLs in Texas to conduct illegal activities, and that many of these weapons may have ended up in the hands of cartels and at the scene of multiple violent crimes in Mexico,” Mr. Cornyn said.

"We in the FBI do have unfinished business." Yeah, like the Terry Murder Cover-up. This guy breaks me up. I might start crying for his sorry ass.

"I get all teary-eyed . . . if I start to think what will happen to my sorry ass if the Terry murder cover-up breaks down."

FBI Director Mueller’s Nostalgic Moment.

This same time last year, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III was feeling a little nostalgic when he spoke in Orlando before the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference. It was like a final victory lap, the last speech as director before the group.

But in a move that caught almost everyone by surprise, the White House earlier this year asked him to stay on two more years beyond his 10-year term. After some consultation, Mueller, now 67, obliged and Congress confirmed his stay. . . "We in the FBI do have unfinished business."

Oh, Godfrey Daniel! I might start tearing up for this murderous schmuck any minute myself.

David Codrea on "Reverse Immigration - Senate Hearing Focuses on Massive Arms Flow to Mexico."

Will CA Senate ‘committee’ even mention Gunwalker in de León media stunt?

"If they can't kill you. . . they'll make you crazy." Behind the Scenes, the Cover-up Games Continue. Keep the whistleblowers in your prayers.

A week ago Friday, I decided to have some new business cards made up at Staples. Dropping off the image, I was told that they would be ready Saturday morning. So, after I left the AGCA gun show early to visit with my daughter Zoe before she returned to college, about mid-day on the way home I stopped by to pick them up.

I observed to the counter guy that it looked like the whole order wasn't there. He told me that someone had asked to see the order earlier representing himself as my "business partner" and had taken a few, saying that I wouldn't mind.

Uh, huh. Of course, I have no business partner and no one knew that I had ordered the cards but me and Staples. The description of the "guy in a suit and sunglasses" was sufficiently vague and I had to get going to see my daughter off so I didn't immediately demand to see the manager and the surveillance tapes. In retrospect, David Codrea, among others, has beat me up about this and he and they are probably right.

In any case, there are a couple of explanations for this latest nudge of the elbow from the secret police, one more innocent than the other. The least threatening one is that some gestapoman either got bored enough (or was told) to "count coup" on me to rattle my cage. The other is that they were looking for "evidence" to plant somewhere later on somebody -- at a crime scene or on a dead criminal for example.

Paranoia comes easy when you have real and powerful enemies, but I learned in the 90s that you can't succumb to it for if you do they have won already. It is in the enemies' interest to make the opposition paranoid. I know, I do it myself back at them. Just ask Ramsey A. Bear. All's fair on the cold war battlefield we play on.

So, the only immediate countermeasure I took was to tell some trusted friends about it. All of them took me to task, especially David, for missed opportunities to turn it around, and I will be exploring some possibilities of that today with Staples and the local police. It was David who insisted last week that I write about it, however, and thus I am doing so now.

I suppose I am guilty of nonchalance with stuff like this. After all, it has been happening to me off and one since the 90s. I no longer watch for multi-car tails -- that sort of thing is so 20th Century -- and always assume everything about me is known to the servants of the Federal Leviathan. That way you just don't have to worry about it and you can have much more fun than they do.

(I actually can't wait for the next administration to get here so I can get a real FOIA document dump on me so I can check my entire multi-agency Stasi file. It should be very instructive.)

However, there is no doubt that this kind of crap has an effect on people unused to being on the receiving end, especially many of my sources and especially the whistleblowers. Folks will call me, and immediately get a ring-back from "Restricted Number" after they hang up, usually with a female voice asking pardon for a wrong number. Black bag jobs on homes and businesses with no alarms going off and video surveillance mysteriously interrupted or missing are commonplace, often with something taken or a familiar object placed in some manner that cannot be accidental, just to let the victim know that they were there.

The Lone Wold Trading Company, for example, according to federal sources familiar with the incident, was broken into and 30 firearms were taken without the alarm being tripped. ATF supervisor Hope MacAllister later told owner Andre Howard, according to those same federal sources, that the ever vigilant ATF video surveillance system didn't recover the images of the intruders because the system was, she claimed, turned off at the end of the business day and restarted every morning. "Howard didn't believe it," said one source, "and he shouldn't. None of the thirty firearms stolen that night have ever been traced in the system." They just . . . disappeared.

The ATF whistleblowers, to a man, are under constant pressure from their supervisors and some, but not all, of their fellow agents. This has effects on their lives, their relationships, their health -- all of which it is designed to do by the Gunwalker plotters. "If they can't kill you," said one federal source, "they'll make you crazy. And if they can't make you crazy, they'll make your life a living hell."

Think of this, too. Y'all think that this has been going on far too long already, with the ten months since the death of Brian Terry and the first report of the whistleblowers. Well, the whistleblowers like John Dodson, had been fighting in that trench for almost a year before YOU ever heard about it. And they are fighting there still, largely alone, isolated, subject to all the fears that you would have about safety, family, economic security, etc.

Keep them in your prayers, folks. And don't forget to write your Congresscritters to demand something better for them while they wait, still twisting in the wind, for them to call the Gunwalker plotters to the bar of justice. For only then can they get on with their lives after having done a great service for their country.

Beyond Gunwalker.

It’s a Culture Thing.

If the Gunwalker scandal does not bring a reassessment and vigorous oversight of ALL federal law enforcement agencies, not just ATF, the same thing will happen all over again. Both political parties are responsible for not keeping these agenda-driven dogs on a leash and they ought to have the honesty to admit it and the courage to fix it. Since they won't, of themselves, do that, it is up to us to make sure it happens.

Beyond even that, with the self-discrediting bloody appetites of the gun grabbers exposed for all to see, it would be nice if we could start repealing some of the ridiculous citizen-disarmament and government-empowerment laws that caused this deadly scandal in the first place.

That is, however, not the way to bet.

FBI National Gang Threat Assessment. Taxpayer supported gang operating under color of law discusses the competition.

Federal gang leader prays that Senator Grassley hasn't figured out what really happened in Peck Canyon yet.

Link here.

Gangs are expanding, evolving and posing an increasing threat to US communities nationwide. Many gangs are sophisticated criminal networks with members who are violent, distribute wholesale quantities of drugs, and develop and maintain close working relationships with members and associates of transnational criminal/drug trafficking organizations. Gangs are becoming more violent while engaging in less typical and lower-risk crime, such as prostitution and white-collar crime. Gangs are more adaptable, organized, sophisticated, and opportunistic, exploiting new and advanced technology as a means to recruit, communicate discretely, target their rivals, and perpetuate their criminal activity. Based on state, local, and federal law enforcement reporting, the NGIC concludes that:

* There are approximately 1.4 million active street, prison, and OMG gang members comprising more than 33,000 gangs in the United States. Gang membership increased most significantly in the Northeast and Southeast regions, although the West and Great Lakes regions boast the highest number of gang members. Neighborhood-based gangs, hybrid gang members, and national-level gangs such as the Sureños are rapidly expanding in many jurisdictions. Many communities are also experiencing an increase in ethnic-based gangs such as African, Asian, Caribbean, and Eurasian gangs.

* Gangs are responsible for an average of 48 percent of violent crime in most jurisdictions and up to 90 percent in several others, according to NGIC analysis. Major cities and suburban areas experience the most gang-related violence. Local neighborhood-based gangs and drug crews continue to pose the most significant criminal threat in most communities. Aggressive recruitment of juveniles and immigrants, alliances and conflict between gangs, the release of incarcerated gang members from prison, advancements in technology and communication, and Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization (MDTO) involvement in drug distribution have resulted in gang expansion and violence in a number of jurisdictions.

* Gangs are increasingly engaging in non-traditional gang-related crime, such as alien smuggling, human trafficking, and prostitution. Gangs are also engaging in white collar crime such as counterfeiting, identity theft, and mortgage fraud, primarily due to the high profitability and much lower visibility and risk of detection and punishment than drug and weapons trafficking.

* US-based gangs have established strong working relationships with Central American and MDTOs to perpetrate illicit cross-border activity, as well as with some organized crime groups in some regions of the United States. US-based gangs and MDTOs are establishing wide-reaching drug networks; assisting in the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and illegal immigrants along the Southwest Border; and serving as enforcers for MDTO interests on the US side of the border.

* Many gang members continue to engage in gang activity while incarcerated. Family members play pivotal roles in assisting or facilitating gang activities and recruitment during a gang members’ incarceration. Gang members in some correctional facilities are adopting radical religious views while incarcerated.

* Gangs encourage members, associates, and relatives to obtain law enforcement, judiciary, or legal employment in order to gather information on rival gangs and law enforcement operations. Gang infiltration of the military continues to pose a significant criminal threat, as members of at least 53 gangs have been identified on both domestic and international military installations. Gang members who learn advanced weaponry and combat techniques in the military are at risk of employing these skills on the street when they return to their communities.

* Gang members are acquiring high-powered, military-style weapons and equipment which poses a significant threat because of the potential to engage in lethal encounters with law enforcement officers and civilians. Typically firearms are acquired through illegal purchases; straw purchases via surrogates or middle-men, and thefts from individuals, vehicles, residences and commercial establishments. Gang members also target military and law enforcement officials, facilities, and vehicles to obtain weapons, ammunition, body armor, police gear, badges, uniforms, and official identification.

* Gangs on Indian Reservations often emulate national-level gangs and adopt names and identifiers from nationally recognized urban gangs. Gang members on some Indian Reservations are associating with gang members in the community to commit crime.

* Gangs are becoming increasingly adaptable and sophisticated, employing new and advanced technology to facilitate criminal activity discreetly, enhance their criminal operations, and connect with other gang members, criminal organizations, and potential recruits nationwide and even worldwide.

Given that it was a taxpayer-supported, FBI-sanctioned gang that killed Brian Terry that dark night in Peck Canyon last December and has been covering up for it ever since, I guess the denizens of the Hoover Building just don't like the competition.

How are we supposed to choose between MS-13 and the FBI when the functional difference becomes less and less as time goes by?

Got militia?

"Action this day!" We interrupt this brief sabbatical for an important message for Southern California Threepers . . .

"Action this day." -- Winston Churchill.

The Dems are trying the fog up the Gunwalker Scandal with a dog and pony show in LA on Tuesday. I'll have more after the press realease.

This just in from David Codrea:

Thu, 2011-10-20

Senate Select Committee on Immigration and the Economy Community Meeting

“California’s Gun and Ammo Pipeline to the Mexican Drug Cartels”

Understanding and Stemming U.S. Firearms Trafficking to Mexico and Central America

Featuring Testimony from Tijuana Police Chief, Several Central American Governments and State, Federal and Local Law Enforcement

(Los Angeles, CA) – As head of the California State Senate Select Committee on Immigration and the Economy, Senator Kevin de León is convening a community meeting to examine California’s role as a pipeline for guns and ammunition to the Mexican drug cartels and how to improve efforts to stem such gun and ammunition trafficking.

Mexican and Central American representatives will testify on the flood of weapons and ammunition into their cities and countries and on the violence and bloodshed that result from the trafficking of those deadly weapons. State, federal and local law enforcement officials will discuss their efforts to intercept weapons flowing into Latin America and what’s necessary to step up and expand those efforts.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Ronald Reagan State Building (Auditorium)

300 South Spring Street

Los Angeles, CA 90013

PANELISTS (Partial List)

Alberto Capella Ibarra, Secretary of Public Safety, Tijuana

Consul General Walter Duran Martinez, Consul General of El Salvador

Consul General Pablo Cesar Garcia Saenz, Consul General of Guatemala

Assistant Commissioner Warren Stanley, California Highway Patrol (CHP)

Sheriff Leroy Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

Captain David Myers, San Diego County Sheriff's Department

Special Agent John A. Torres, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)-Los Angeles Division

Mexican drug trafficking organizations have been terrorizing citizens in both the United States and Mexico, and thousands of families have lost loved ones to gun violence. These tragedies are being fueled by the flow of illegal weapons and ammunition across the border.

*Senator De León is available for interviews Monday or Tuesday before the meeting as well as after the meeting.

Now, I don't know how many Threepers there are who haven't yet self-evacuated from the LA Proletarian District of the People's Democratic Socialist Republic of Kalifornia, but if there are any left wouldn't this be a nice event to infiltrate and ask questions that contradict the meme?

Any volunteers?