Pajamas Media continues to take the lead in the Fast and Furious scandal with two significant articles today. In the first, Democrats like Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who sits on the Oversight Committee, continue to defend the administration's actions in this scandal.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/as-issa-closes-in-on-fbi-role-in-gunwalker-dems-feign-outrage/
Note in the linked article written by Diane Dimond for Huffington Post, she mentions what is also a pregnant fact: to date, nobody has been identified as the originator who dreamed up this crazy idea in the first place. Kind of reminds me that nobody was ever identified as the Clinton White House individual who hired Craig Livingstone (Remember him?)
She remembers him.
But I digress.
Dimond makes one error when she says that someone in ATF dreamed up Fast and Furious. Nonsense. That idea had to originate in Washington-either among the political hires in DOJ or within the White House. No sane law enforcement agent would have even considered what was done unless ordered to from above.
Next, PJ Media writes about what allegedly happened to one of the ATF whistleblowers in Arizona. If true, this is outrageous.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/atf-whistleblower-backs-up-latest-allegations-against-william-newell/
As a retired DEA agent, I certainly have recollections of what happens when agents are threatened as a result of cases they have made. The agency has a responsibility to take whatever action is necessary to protect that agent. The notorious Enrique Camarena murder case in Mexico involved a DEA agent stationed in Guadalajara who was kidnapped and tortured to death by drug traffickers in 1985. The reason? Because he had developed a case that had resulted in the seizure of a huge marijuana farm in Mexico.
When it is known that a credible threat has been made against an agent and his/her familty, the agency moves in and takes the necessary steps, which can involve around-the-clock protection, transeferring the agent to another location, or whatever is necessary. I don't know the facts of this case, but if there was a credible threat against this agent, ATF had every responsibility to protect him.
I just do not understand what is happening to federal law enforcement under this administration. It is being corrupted beyond words. Any department head who is involved in this should be removed from office and possibly prosecuted.
I know a lot of people are poo-pooing this because the media is ignoring it-for obvious reasons. This makes Watergate look like a walk in the park. Remember: Nobody died in Watergate. Here, we have a dead US Border Patrol agent, a dead ICE agent, and a wounded ICE agent- all from guns sold under Fast and Furious surveillance-not to mention the one or two hundred deaths in Mexico linked to said guns.
Yet, incredibly, when I talk to well-educated people I know who follow current events, many have never heard about it. Nobody is talking about it. It just staggers the imagination.
The fact that Gary Fouse and his favorite pajama party, along with a handful of venal Republican congressmen, are the only ones taking this seriously as a scandal, should tell any intelligent, observant, fair-minded, patriotic Americans that there is little or nothing to it.
ReplyDeleteThe less people care, the more furious Gary's lurid headlines get.
Yes, Siarlys.
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely correct.
I agree! These stories are beyond belief, in that this corrupt Administration is having a bad effect on law enforcement. It is as if the Administration and its minions are entitled to their own brand of "Justice for Us". There is too much evidence of this behavior and it is passed over by the media and the Democratic party members, as revealed in the blog. It is blogs like this one and others, such as PJ Media, that inform us.
ReplyDeleteThe next story about the inept and party line Senator Barbara Boxer is a prime example of cover-up. A letter writer asks Boxer a question about Fast and Furious and that the scandal needs to be reviewed by an independant investigation. The answer is canned pap, which does not address the outrage in terms of American and Mexican deaths related to this White House and DoJ venture.
Squid
Thank you. Your writing staggers the imagination because it IS imaginative.
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