So Fast and Furious has literally exploded all over the national stage this week. The AG has weasel-wormed his way into a corner concerning documents they may or may not have, the Administration is in full on CYA mode by invoking executive privilege, and the political left is screaming bloody murder about a witch hunt over all of this.
With every report I've read over the last 18 or so months, with very few exceptions, the one (and probably most important) aspect that gets overlooked in all this is the complicity of the FBI in all this.
What has not been reported, except in the blogger community, is that the straw buyers at the heart of Fast and Furious were all convicted felons. Meaning that legally speaking, they could not walk into any gun shop in this country and buy any gun. Yet that's exactly what they did. Walked into gun stores all over the Tuscon/Phoenix area and bought semi-auto rifles by the bushel.
Now, anyone who has bought a gun from a gun store in any state knows that before you are allowed to leave the premises with your new purchase, you have to fill out a little paperwork first. They ask for all kinds of things, like your name, address; to include city, state, AND county of residence, they ask for your race, your SSN, height, weight, and a whole slew of questions about your status like are you the actual buyer, are you a felon, are you in the country illegally, and if you've ever been convicted of domestic violence or drug related crimes. Lying on this little form will get you in some hot water.
After you've filled out the form, the guy behind the counter takes that form, and goes and makes a phone call to the National Insta-Check System center, run by the FBI. One of three things will happen by the end of this call. First, you're cleared and you continue on with your purchase. Second, your name pops up and they put a 'hold' on your purchase, which if nothing else comes of it, you can come back in 3 days and pick up your purchase. Lastly, you get a 'do not proceed' and then the fun starts as you can expect a visit from someone with a badge in the near future.
What happened in F&F is that these guys were all given a 'procede' from the NICS operator. Now, I don't know about you, but when you've got some guys with rap sheets buying guns from licensed dealers without a worry in the world about getting caught, something smells in Denmark.
I've tried, unsuccessfully, for the last 2 days to get through to some of the radio hosts I listen to every day to bring this up. Eventually, I will get through. This needs wider attention. We need answers. Agent Terry's family deserves answers.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
What Is Wrong With These People?
I listen to a fair amount of talk radio on a daily basis, basically the entire lineup on Sirius/XM's Patriot Channel.
What usually has me pounding my steering wheel is 'the liberal caller' who phones in to tell the host how wrong us conservatives are.
The one thing that I that always amazes me, is after all the crap that has gone on in this country over the last 3 or so years, what with a massive health care bill, a massive spending bill, and a checked off 'To Do' list of every liberal/progressive/socialist/marxist/populist wet dream, it's all the Repugnican's fault we're in the mess we're in.
I've got a news flash for these morons. Yes. The previous administrations of the last 60 or so years have run debts and deficits. Some bigger or smaller than others. What sets this latest one apart is the fact that in a little over 3 years, our debt is twice what it was during the entire 8 years of the previous occupant of the mansion located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
With all this debt and deficit, a looming economic crisis in Europe, and the fact that for the last 2 years, the labor force has hemorrhaged more jobs than naked camp counsellors at Camp Crystal Lake have blood. Yet we're constantly told this all the fault of the opposition party. Never mind who controlled the coffers for 4 of the last 6 years. Never mind that when you give a trillion dollars of money you don't have to all the fools who helped you pull the wool over the eyes of the American electorate, it's all the fault of the Repugnicans. Nope, nothing to see here, move along...
Nope. We have to get them evil rich guys. We have to give jobs we don't have to people who technically don't exist in the tax system. We can't take any money away from the supposed 99%. Yet the more you look at who they want to tax the shit out of, the more you find out that the very middle class they claim to support, are the very people they are trying to drive to the poor house. I'm still trying to figure out how millionaires and billionaires equates to folks making $250K a year. Maybe I missed that class in public school. But then again, I was educated at a time when they actually taught something other than the touchy-feely crap they put out now.
I read these letter to the editor telling everyone that if we went back to a more Constitutional foundation, then Granny would be pushed off a cliff or Little Sally would starve because there are no more school lunches. Or that entire towns would degenerate into a burning chaos because there wouldn't be any firefighters or police. Special note about the police and fire departments: They are not federally funded and were never supposed to be that way. That's what local property taxes are for. Not federal income taxes. So to insinuate that if we don't get another stimulus package, then blood will run in the streets and every building in town will burn down is pure-d-bullshit.
Get your fingers out of my wallet. You didn't work to earn it, you don't get a piece of the action. You want a new TV or the latest super-computing phone, get your ass a job and go get it yourself. For those who legitimately unable to work, we can work something out. For the rest of you lazy asses who can't be bothered, two words I think sum up how I feel on the subject and one of them begins with the F.
What usually has me pounding my steering wheel is 'the liberal caller' who phones in to tell the host how wrong us conservatives are.
The one thing that I that always amazes me, is after all the crap that has gone on in this country over the last 3 or so years, what with a massive health care bill, a massive spending bill, and a checked off 'To Do' list of every liberal/progressive/socialist/marxist/populist wet dream, it's all the Repugnican's fault we're in the mess we're in.
I've got a news flash for these morons. Yes. The previous administrations of the last 60 or so years have run debts and deficits. Some bigger or smaller than others. What sets this latest one apart is the fact that in a little over 3 years, our debt is twice what it was during the entire 8 years of the previous occupant of the mansion located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
With all this debt and deficit, a looming economic crisis in Europe, and the fact that for the last 2 years, the labor force has hemorrhaged more jobs than naked camp counsellors at Camp Crystal Lake have blood. Yet we're constantly told this all the fault of the opposition party. Never mind who controlled the coffers for 4 of the last 6 years. Never mind that when you give a trillion dollars of money you don't have to all the fools who helped you pull the wool over the eyes of the American electorate, it's all the fault of the Repugnicans. Nope, nothing to see here, move along...
Nope. We have to get them evil rich guys. We have to give jobs we don't have to people who technically don't exist in the tax system. We can't take any money away from the supposed 99%. Yet the more you look at who they want to tax the shit out of, the more you find out that the very middle class they claim to support, are the very people they are trying to drive to the poor house. I'm still trying to figure out how millionaires and billionaires equates to folks making $250K a year. Maybe I missed that class in public school. But then again, I was educated at a time when they actually taught something other than the touchy-feely crap they put out now.
I read these letter to the editor telling everyone that if we went back to a more Constitutional foundation, then Granny would be pushed off a cliff or Little Sally would starve because there are no more school lunches. Or that entire towns would degenerate into a burning chaos because there wouldn't be any firefighters or police. Special note about the police and fire departments: They are not federally funded and were never supposed to be that way. That's what local property taxes are for. Not federal income taxes. So to insinuate that if we don't get another stimulus package, then blood will run in the streets and every building in town will burn down is pure-d-bullshit.
Get your fingers out of my wallet. You didn't work to earn it, you don't get a piece of the action. You want a new TV or the latest super-computing phone, get your ass a job and go get it yourself. For those who legitimately unable to work, we can work something out. For the rest of you lazy asses who can't be bothered, two words I think sum up how I feel on the subject and one of them begins with the F.
Monday, June 11, 2012
A Fast and Furious Update
Just got this via email:
Attorney
General Eric Holder: The Case For Contempt
U.S.
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot and killed in the line of duty on
December 15th, 2010. Two of the weapons found at the scene of Agent
Terry’s murder were weapons purchased under surveillance by the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) as part of Operation Fast and
Furious. Under this operation, the BATFE allowed purchases to be made by
“straw purchasers,” individuals who purchase guns in order to sell them
illegally. These “straw purchasers,” many of whom were ineligible to
purchase firearms in the first place, were allowed by BATFE officials to both
make the purchases and then transfer the weapons to third parties.
Congress’
investigation, now a year and a half old, has been hampered by the stonewalling
of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. At worst, Mr. Holder has misled the
Congress, and at best, he has been negligent in failing to control his
subordinates. It is clear to me that Mr. Holder is not fit to hold the
position as the nation’s top law enforcement officer. My calls and the calls
of my colleagues for Mr. Holder’s resignation have fallen on deaf ears as
President Obama continues to support his Attorney General.
Throughout
the investigation, the Department has made false denials, misdirected
investigators, intimidated witnesses, withheld documents, and acknowledged the
truth only when confronted with conclusive evidence. We cannot allow this
Administration’s stonewalling to hinder Congress’ constitutional oversight
responsibilities, the Terry family’s search for truth, and the public’s right
to know what went wrong and which officials knew about it.
Next
week, June 20th, 2012, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
will meet to consider whether Attorney General Eric Holder should be held in
contempt of Congress for his failure to comply with a subpoena related to
Operation Fast & Furious.
Despite
the thousands of papers Mr. Holder has decided to share in response to the
October 12, 2011 subpoena, Mr. Holder has withheld the very documents that
could either exonerate his Department or confirm our suspicions that senior
officials mishandled Fast and Furious and obstructed Congress’
investigation. The subpoena targets internal deliberations that pertain
to Fast & Furious, retaliation against whistleblowers, and why it took the
Department nearly a year to retract false denials of reckless tactics.
The
Justice Department can still stop the process of contempt - a process for
enforcing compliance with a lawful subpoena - by delivering the requested
documents and letting the truth speak for itself. If not, the Committee
will proceed with consideration of a contempt citation, which will be debatable
and amendable by the Committee. Ultimate approval of the contempt
citation will require a majority vote of the Committee.
For
more information, please visit: www.fastandfuriousinvestigation.com.
To see my remarks on Attorney General Holder’s failure to cooperate with
Congress, please visit http://youtu.be/cyfFeav5ofo.
Sincerely,
Cynthia
M. Lummis
Member
of Congress
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