Fast and Furious: Getting Closer to You Know Who

Hat tip to American Thinker

Not only is it increasingly ludicrous to think Eric Holder didn't know about ATF's Fast and Furious, there are more signs that Holder's boss (He only answers to one person) had some knowledge about it as well. Not only has it been revealed that the agent-in-charge of ATF's Phoenix office was communicating about it to White House National Security figure Kevin O'Reilly, but now we learn that President Obama has made statements about how the DOJ was involved in "gun tracing". The below article appears in American Thinker and is written by M. Catherine Evans.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/07/fast_and_furious_traced_to_white_house.html

"Last point I would make, is that there are going to be some opportunities where I think we can build some strong consensus I'll give you one example and that is the issue of gun tracing, the tracing of bullets and ballistics and gun information that had been used in major crimes."

-President Obama, April 2009 at joint press conference with President Felipe Calderon in Mexico City

Is the above statement a smoking gun? No. Fast and Furious began a few months later. It does cast doubt on Obama's claim not to have been aware of what the ATF began doing in the fall of 2009. It even increases suspicion that the whole idea of Fast and Furious could have been cooked up by Obama and Holder themselves.