Hat tip Daily Caller
With 52 members of Congress now demanding Eric Holder's resignation, over ATF's Operation Fast and Furious, the question must now start to arise; why won't Holder step down, and, based on historical precedent in cases like these, why won't the administration quietly shove him out the door?
http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/20/issa-if-eric-holder-is-not-doomed-the-obama-administration-is/
Here is my theory, based not on insider knowledge, but common sense. Holder doesn't want to go, and he knows where the bodies are buried-figuratively in the White House garden. It doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to figure out that President Obama and his time of operatives in the White House not only knew what was going on in Fast and Furious, but were involved in the planning of it. We know that White House National Security man, Kevin O'Reilly was getting updates from acting ATF SAIC William Newall in Phoenix. In addition to O'Reilly, there were two other national security types in the White House involved in e-mail exchanges related to Fast and Furious.
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/09/02/fast-and-furious-update-yes-the-white-house-got-e-mails/
We also know that White House official Eric Schultz was screaming at CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who was asking for documents from the White House via the Freedom of Information Act.
Motive? The administration had been claiming that 80% of guns used by Mexican cartels were originating in the US. There is also the suspicion-more than a suspicion-that the administration wanted to restrict gun ownership.
As I have said all along, this operation could never have been dreamed up by law enforcement people. This was a political operation designed to produce statistics to prove a point.
Had Holder or his political underlings in Justice cooked up this scheme, it would be easy for Obama to pass the word to Holder that it was time to go. Yet, he continues to stand by his attorney general. Why? In my view, if he throws Holder under the bus, Holder knows how to get back. He can tell investigators what he knows about White House involvement in Fast and Furious-and just how far in the White House it goes.
Why Gary, you sound exactly like CAIR, screaming at the NYPD. You tip toe around the obvious question: WERE the Mexican cartels getting 80 percent of their guns from dealers in the U.S.???
ReplyDeleteDid the "Fast and Furious" operation, even if poorly conducted, show that a large volume of guns from the U.S. WERE going to the cartels? Weren't those two DEA agents killed by guns SOLD BY A U.S. GUN DEALER???
And what were you saying about the dastardly notion that our government should be doing something to CONTROL this illegal traffic?
Like CAIR, you and your gun lobby friends are screaming invective at the Department of Justice and trying to make the investigation go away, by making the point that it was poorly done, RATHER THAN that there has been a crime committed on a massive scale to put those guns over the border in the first place.
For a retired law enforcement officer, you are really sounding pathetic on this one. You should be demanding a more rigorous and well-organized renewed operation, not setting the whole thing aside to concentrate on appointing a special prosecutor.
Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteThey were not DEA agents. One was ICE, the other Border patrol. The gun dealers who sold these particular weapons were doing so while cooperating with ATF.
I am not a gun lobbier. The claim that 80% of cartel guns were coming from the US seems shaky since Mexico has always had plenty of guns going back to Zapata and Pancho Villa.
The crime of allowing guns to cross the border is a result of Fast and Furious. The object should have been to arrest people receiving the guns. Since the Mexicans were never told about the operation, that had to be done in the US. It was not done or even attempted.
Do you even know what you are talking about?
Rhetorical ad hominem questions do not bolster your credibility. Are you now saying that there were NO guns to speak of being sold over the border, until Operation Fast and Furious was initiated? If you are, then, short of actually spending a few years doing surveillance on the border, which neither you nor I are engaged in, all published information available to me as a citizen strongly suggest that the cartels were buying guns long before this operation, which was intended to identify the flow.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, you are using exactly the same style of argument as CAIR. You DON'T want to have a rational, factual, discussion about guns being sold across the border, RATHER, you want to scream loudly about the motives of your adversary. Poor showing.