Monday, June 20, 2011

Rush Limbaugh & PJM ask the same question: "Was ‘Gunwalker’ a PR Op for Gun Control?" "Prison for senior administration officials."

Although I did not hear it myself, several friends called to tell me that Rush Limbaugh hit the Gunwalker ball out of the park this morning. Although he covered Gunwalker once before, his narrative was bit muddled. This time, I'm told, he made the same point that Bob Owens made in his Pajamas Media column today, "Mega-Scandal: Was ‘Gunwalker’ a PR Op for Gun Control?"

Buckle up: An agent testifies that surveillance stopped at the border, meaning the operation didn't actually trace guns to cartels to make arrests. The only conclusion? Law enforcement wasn't the point, orchestrated violence was, and that's a history-making scandal.

The most damning revelations coming out of the hearings on Operation Fast and Furious held by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform are the unmistakable indications that the program was never designed to succeed as a law enforcement operation at all.

A quartet of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agents and supervisors turned into whistleblowers to bring the operation down, but only after U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was gunned down in the Arizona desert. Two of the weapons recovered at the scene of Terry’s murder were traced to the operation.

Fast and Furious, also known by the more accurate “Gunwalker,” allowed known straw purchasers to buy large quantities of firearms — often a dozen or more semi-automatic rifles — at a time with the full knowledge of ATF agents and executives. The guns were then smuggled into Mexico, as frustrated front-line ATF agents watched, under strict orders to do nothing. . .

The obvious answer is that Gunwalker’s objective was never intended to be a “legitimate law enforcement interest.” Instead, it appears that ATF Acting Director Ken Melson and Department of Justice senior executives specifically created an operation that was designed from the outset to arm Mexican narco-terrorists and increase violence substantially along both sides of the Southwest border.

Success was measured not by the number of criminals being incarcerated, but by the number of weapons transiting the border and the violence those weapons caused. An ATF manager was “delighted” when Gunwalker guns started showing up at drug busts. It would be entirely consistent with this theory if DOJ communications reflected the approval of the ATF senior officials they were colluding with — but as we know, Holder’s Department of Justice refuses to cooperate. . .

We know that Obama’s friends in Joyce Foundation-supported gun control groups suspiciously have not attacked the administration’s gun-running, but instead have attacked the Oversight Committee’s investigation.

We know that of the 7,900 weapons (just under 8 percent of the guns captured from cartels) that came from gun shops in the United States, about 2,000 of them were the result of Gunwalker.

We know that Gunwalker was never designed to interdict the weapons the ATF and DOJ pushed objecting gun sellers to provide. We know that management reacted to the spiraling violence that Gunwalker caused not with concern, but with enthusiasm.

The Department of Justice claims that their inspector general will investigate Gunwalker, but it appears obvious to the very agents that brought this scandal into the open that they have a clear conflict of interest. There are already calls for a special prosecutor to investigate Gunwalker.

Considering the arming of narco-terrorist gangs, the destabilizing geopolitical effect on Mexico, the foreign policy ramifications, and the possibility of extrajudicial and criminal activity at the highest levels of the executive branch, a special prosecutor should be just one avenue of investigation. This could possibly lead to prison for senior administration officials and an indictment against President Barack Obama himself.

7 comments:

Elliot said...

Melson to resign.

Anonymous said...

Also, remember that there had to be FBI background checks done for these firearms sales. Why are they not being questioned about that?

Did the ATF have a means of circumventing the NICs check?

Bubba said...

Right now we know about the scandal on our southern border, surely this couldn’t be part of a much larger operation. What if the ATF were allowing sales to gang members, etc. all over the U.S.? What politicians and political groups would profit from the increase in violence in urban communities? How many gun dealers have been coerced by the ATF into making sales they otherwise would not have made?

Anonymous said...

Having Rush cover this is a good thing yet I am somewhat dissappointed in his coverage of it. This is his second pass at the story, yet he still credits the breaking of the story to the reporter at CBS news, not Mike or David, despite my e-mailing him the links to both sites after his first pass back in March.

Happy D said...

Ya shoulda caught Levin's show.

Skip said...

Where is Perry on this?
There is the same docs/vids on F&F in Texas gun shops.

Anonymous said...

Some are saying these Gun Running is for political reasons...But what if it was done for that old fasioned reason.............. MONEY...TIC...TOC...TIC...TOC...TIC...TOC...