Four ATF Agents Contradict Justice Department Account on “Fast and Furious”

June 15, 2011 By 15 Comments

Jonathan Strong, The Daily Caller

Four Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents in transcribed interviews with top GOP oversight official Darrell Issa’s office are contradicting the Justice Department’s account of “Operation Fast and Furious,” saying hundreds of weapons -– including assault rifles and military-grade sniper weapons -– were allowed to escape into the clutches of Mexican drug cartels in an apparently reckless investigative strategy.

Their testimony raises the question of whether Ronald Weich, a deputy to Attorney General Eric Holder, lied to congressional investigators in a Feb. 4 letter denying the allegations. Weich is testifying before Issa’s committee Wednesday.

The four ATF agents describe how the weapons were tracked from sales at U.S. gun shops but not seized as is normal practice. The goal of the operation was to track the weapons as they progressed from the purchasers through criminal networks.

But two rifles involved in “Fast and Furious” were found at the scene of Border Agent Brian Terry’s murder Dec. 14, 2010, apparently provoking the Justice Department to halt the operation in the aftermath of the murder. Jaime Avila, the purchaser of the guns, had been under surveillance for over a year as he illegally purchased weapons.

The ATF agents’ testimony, from John Dodson, Olindo James Casa, Lawrence Alt and Peter Forceilli, adds additional context and detail to “Fast and Furious” not previously known. The testimony is excerpted in a report from Issa released on the eve of the hearing where Weich is testifying.

Top-ranking Justice Department officials have previously denied the allegations, saying ATF agents made “every effort” to seize weapons purchased illegally. Since earlier blanket denials,

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National Talk Show Host Asks, Is Gunrunner Impeachable?

June 13, 2011 By 43 Comments

Roger Hedgecock, WND.com

In 2009, over the protests of gun-shop owners who were reassured by federal agents, Jaime Avila purchased from gun shops in the Phoenix area 575 AK-47 type semi automatic rifles for “personal use.” The guns “walked” over the border into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels.

Did the Obama Justice Department encourage gun purchases in the U.S. knowing the guns were illegally “walking” across the border to arm the Mexican drug cartels? Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, involved have come forward admitting it happened.

When some of these guns were used to kill Mexican law enforcement, military and civilians alike (as well as two U.S. federal officers) did the arming of the cartels by policy directive of the Justice Department constitute an act of war against Mexico? Members of the Mexican Congress think so and have opened their own investigation.

Obama has admitted to Mexican media that “mistakes were made” and he will hold “the responsible parties accountable.”

To paraphrase an earlier investigation into executive misconduct, what did Attorney General Holder and President Obama know, and when did they know it?

The Mexican government versus the drug cartels war has taken tens of thousands of lives and cost billions of dollars. The Mexican narco gangs get weapons from a variety of sources, including from AWOL Mexican troops seeking better pay from the cartels and bringing their U.S. made and provided weapons with them.

But in 2009 and 2010 weapons privately purchased in the U.S. were ever more frequently found at violent Mexican drug crime scenes.

Operation Fast and Furious and Project Gunrunner were budgeted, official programs of ATF, an agency of the Justice Department, and they were programs ATF knew resulted in arming the cartels…

We are losing our country while the politicians in Washington play stupid games over border security.

One who is determined to get to the bottom of the gun-walking programs is Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He has scheduled a public hearing today on the Gunrunner/Fast and Furious programs.

Issa’s subpoenas for more information have been stonewalled by Obama and Holder. In the last few days, facing Chairman Issa’s promise of contempt of Congress charges unless the subpoenas are complied with, new administration witnesses have been promised.

In Ronald Reagan’s second term, public disclosure that his administration had sold tactical missiles to Iran to fund the Contras fighting the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua without the knowledge of Congress ignited a firestorm that threatened Reagan with impeachment.

Chairman Issa told me in an interview that Iran/Contra had more controls over who got the missiles and what they were capable of than the guns that the Obama administration allowed to walk into Mexico and into the eager hands of the deadly Mexican cartels.

Did Obama and Holder approve and fund programs to help arm the Mexican cartels with weapons sold in the U.S. to achieve a gun-control objective? The Issa hearings could give us an answer to that question.

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Mr. President, Bring Jobs Back Home

May 16, 2011 By 3 Comments

Tom W. Pauken, FloydReports.com

Were I to have a moment with President Obama as he visits El Paso and Austin this week, my message would be simple: Bring jobs home to America.

The citizens of El Paso could be especially instructive in this regard. They’re first-hand witnesses to the jobless “recovery” as well as the almost total collapse of manufacturing that’s taken place in our nation over the last decade. As home to the border port with the largest amount of Mexican-American trade, El Paso is at the crossroads of a trade deficit that is the direct result of a flood of manufacturing jobs that have left America for other countries.

A story appearing in Tuesday’s El Paso Times states that in the first two months of this year, Mexico has imported $1.1 billion more into America than America has exported into Mexico. Over the course of a year, that adds up to a $6.6 billion trade deficit with our neighbor to the south. Compounding the problem, according to the article in the El Paso Times, is that even though U.S. exports to Mexico have increased over the last two years, there has been almost no accompanying increase in new jobs in the U.S. Meanwhile, Mexico enjoys a 16 percent….

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Mexicans Who Happen to be Living in America Demand Racial-Grievance Studies

May 13, 2011 By 22 Comments

Don Feder, GrassTopsUSA.com

Multiculturalism, which used to be merely noxious, has become a raging infection which poses as much of a threat to America as the national debt or terrorism — before Osama assumed room temperature.

Recently, a gang of ethnocentric thugs took over a meeting of the governing board of the Tucson, Arizona, Unified School District, chaining themselves to desks, screaming slogans, and chasing board members from the room.

They were enraged by an attempt to make a course that teaches history “from a Mexican-American perspective” optional instead of a substitute for a required course in U.S. history.

The Mexican American Studies Program incites approximately 1,700 middle-and high-school students in the district annually.

After an investigation, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne determined that the basic theme of the curriculum (AKA: Raza — “the race” — Studies) is that Hispanic students “were and continue to be victims of a racist American society driven by the interests of middle- and upper-class whites.”

Classrooms in which this pedagogy is perpetrated are decorated with pictures of such Latino “heroes” as Castro and Che Guevara.

Textbooks refer to citizens of this country as “Anglos” or “Euroamericans” (rather than Americans) and include such gems as an essay by one Robert Jensen, which claims Thanksgiving is a “white supremacist holiday” that should be replaced by a “National Day of Atonement” for gringo sins against people of color.

The introductory chapter promises: “We will see how half of Mexico (California, Texas and the Southwest) was ripped off by trickery and violence. We will see how Chicanos became a colonized people. In the process of being colonized, we were robbed of land and other resources.” The nerve of those Texans, tricking Santa Anna into attacking the Alamo and killing its defenders to the last man.

In violation of a recently enacted Arizona law, the curriculum promotes the overthrow of the United States government and “resentment toward a race or class of people,” is “designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group” and advocates “ethnic solidarity instead of treatment of pupils as individuals.”

The multiculturalist assault on America is multifaceted.

In 2010, on Cinco de Mayo (which celebrates the Mexican army’s 1862 victory over the French – big whoopee), a group of patriotic students at the Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California, were sent home for wearing American-flag t-shirts. Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez is said to have….

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The 20-year Sellout of the American Worker

May 12, 2011 By 4 Comments

Tom Gibson, FloydReports.com

Most nations try to avoid running trade deficits because those that do lose jobs.

Why, then, for the last 20 years has the United States run a persistent, growing deficit that has destroyed more than 9 million jobs?

The story begins when President Bill Clinton, promising expanding markets and more jobs, pushed our country into the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1992 and the World Trade Organization in 1995.

After that, the power to make decisions on trade and employment began to shift dramatically to the multinational companies and to our political leaders in Washington whose influence they were able to buy.

The primary interest of the multinationals is in the success of their own enterprises rather than that of a particular country, even their host country.

So because NAFTA and the WTO abolished U.S. trade laws and tariffs that had been put in place over the years to insure we didn’t import more than we exported, the multinationals were free to begin their long and steady effort to move their manufacturing to the countries with the lowest wages.

The great “sucking” sound, predicted by Ross Perot in his attack on NAFTA during the 1992 presidential campaign, began to be heard across our country as factories were abandoned and jobs sucked out….

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