The "Perfect Storm Of Idiocy"
The media haven't been terribly interested in the Obama Administration's ill-conceived Operation Fast and Furious. That's where the government got guns into the hands of people who killed U.S. agents. Rep. Darrell Issa released a report this week unveiling various additional problems with the program. And the New York Times and Washington Post did manage to cover that report.
The Washington Examiner reports that U.S. officials in Mexico began raising alarms about the flood of guns coming into the country back in 2009:
Over the next year, ATF’s Mexico-based officials raised louder and louder alarms all the way to Washington, as the number of guns flooding into Mexico grew from the hundreds into the thousands, and even more disturbingly, a number of them flowed into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
During this time, the United States representatives in Mexico were kept completely in the dark about the so-called “investigation.” Little did they know that the surge in guns heading into Mexico was no accident, but part of an elaborate but ill-conceived effort by the Obama administration to allow front men to purchase guns in Arizona and sell them to smugglers, in the hopes that it would eventually lead U.S. law enforcement officials to Mexican drug cartels.
From at least early 2010, their superiors assured the ATF officials in Mexico that everything was “under control” and that that the investigation would soon end. Yet it only ended in January 2011. By then, guns that were part of the investigation had already been linked to the tragic murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
Mexicans and Americans have every right to be furious that the U.S. government would arm criminals with guns that were used to kill Mexican and American law enforcement officials and citizens. Carlos Canino, the ATF’s acting attaché to Mexico says the operation was "the perfect storm of idiocy."
This scandal shows that the incompetence of our elected officials isn't just inefficient but criminal.
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Jun '10
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Wouldn't you love to play chess with the guy who designed Fast and Furious?
May '10
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Y'know, at least Iran-Contra had a clear purpose. We were sending weapons to help the rebels overthrow the government of Nicaragua. A whole long way away. Admittedly without Congressional approval, but still, the point was straightforward, and the plan was feasible.
Running guns to Mexican drug cartels, while our agents were in the field down there, I mean, good Lord. If we don't know by now who the cartels are and where they're based, we're not very good at counter-cartel operations, should maybe just guard the border, and not give them weapons.
Jun '10
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Kennedy Smith: Y'know, at least Iran-Contra had a clear purpose. We were sending weapons to help the rebels overthrow the government of Nicaragua. A whole long way away. Admittedly without Congressional approval, but still, the point was straightforward, and the plan was feasible.
Running guns to Mexican drug cartels, while our agents were in the field down there, I mean, good Lord.
Amen.
Among those indicted in Iran-Contra were Caspar Weinberger (SecDef: pardoned before trial); Bill Casey (DCIA: illness and death); Bob McFarlane (National Security Advisor--convicted); Elliott Abrams (Ass't SecState--convicted); Alan Fiers (CIA: convicted); Clair George (CIA--convicted); Oliver North (convicted but overturned); John Poindexter (National Sec. Advisor: convicted but overturned). Those not exonerated were later pardoned by Bush I.
Where are the Fast and Furious indictments? Why hasn't Holder been fired, as well as his underlings who oversaw all this? Double standard?
Nov '10
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tabula rasa
Kennedy Smith: Y'know, at least Iran-Contra had a clear purpose. We were sending weapons to help the rebels overthrow the government of Nicaragua. A whole long way away. Admittedly without Congressional approval, but still, the point was straightforward, and the plan was feasible.
Running guns to Mexican drug cartels, while our agents were in the field down there, I mean, good Lord.
Where are the Fast and Furious indictments? Why hasn't Holder been fired, as well as his underlings who oversaw all this? Double standard?
So, what can people do? I have a feeling that this story simply proves Andrew Breitbart's point about the Democrat media complex that controls what goes on in the US, but if a scandal this big and bad can happen without a ripple, what can people do?
Jun '10
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Lucy Pevensie
So, what can people do? I have a feeling that this story simply proves Andrew Breitbart's point about the Democrat media complex that controls what goes on in the US, but if a scandal this big and bad can happen without a ripple, what can people do? · Jul 26 at 9:11am
This is why the alternative media must continue to grow. We have to make the MSM irrelevant.
Aug '10
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This is a media story. At the base of all this is the desire to enforce the need for gun control laws. That is what makes it even worse and stupidly venal. They did this to make a point that reality wasn't providing. They did this and people (lots) died as a result of this incredibly naive approach. These people are unprincipled amateurs who arrogantly ignored what had to have been multiple arguments from experienced,senior officials in these agencies. If that didn't happen, then we need to clean out alot more than the kids who played with matches and burned down a house.
Or ,we can sit back and imagine what things would be like if the Bush Administration had tried this and gotten caught.
Edited on Jul 26, 2011 at 9:54amMay '10
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I can't help but suspect that Fast and Furious was a surreptitious effort to discredit gun ownership and create a pretense for more gun control. Hillary Clinton stated last April that 90% of the weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the US and that was widely reported in the MSM. Planting a few seeds, maybe?
Also, Obama reportedly told Sarah Brady last March in regards to gun control: "I just want you to know that we are working on it," Brady recalled the president telling them. "We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar."
Under the radar, indeed.
Aug '10
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Kervinlee:
Also, Obama reportedly told Sarah Brady last March in regards to gun control: "I just want you to know that we are working on it," Brady recalled the president telling them. "We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar."
Under the radar, indeed.
Is that a smoking gun ? excuse the pun.