August 31, 2011
Fast and Furious "Botched?" Hardly.
Botched Probe Into Gun Smuggling Leads to Justice Dept. Shakeup
--FairWarning
ATF Chief Reassigned in Wake of Botched "Gunwalking" Operation
--International Business Times
US agents botch big "sting" operation in Mexico
--The Voice of Russia
These are just a handful of news articles in the past 24 hours after Ken Melson's banishment to the Department of Justice that insist upon calling the Gunwalker scandal a "botched" operation.
Botched? In what way was Operation Fast and Furious botched?
It was designed from the outset to provide federal law enforcement security to straw purchasers of firearms, assuring that neither the purchasers nor the smugglers stood any chance of being arrested by federal, state, or local authorities. What they offered for the entire life of the operation was protection to criminals.
There was never a mechanism to arrest the alleged targets of the operation, which were in Mexico and out of our jurisdiction. The Operation kept Mexican authorities and even their own agents in Mexico purposefully in the dark, trying to make certain that the Mexican police were totally unaware that American law enforcement was facilitating the smuggling of weapons into Mexico that were then used to kill Mexican and U.S. nationals, including police officers and soldiers.
Fast and Furious was only "botched" in that the scheme to arm the Sinaloa cartel by our DOJ, DHS, and White House was eventually ratted out by one of the participants when the plot led to the death of a fellow federal agent.
Fast and Furious did precisely what Obama wanted it to, which was to put American guns in the hands of Mexican criminals in order to justify more gun control in the United States, like the long gun reporting rule celebrated in the ATF.
This was a criminal conspiracy. The only thing that was botched was the cover-up.
"The only thing that was botched was the cover-up."
And as you've capably documented, the MSM is complicit in the cover up - as has been customary in relation to the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama.
d(^_^)b
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“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
heres one from rhymes with right,
Cops Steal Legal Guns -- Refuse To Return Them Without Court Order
I chose my words carefully -- and I think you'll understand why.
Francesca Rice no longer serves in her country’s armed forces, but she brought a piece of the action back home with her.
It seems the Lakewood vet had stockpiled her Edgewater Towers condo with a home arsenal including handguns, shotguns, a sniper rifle — plus a Thompson sub-machine gun, just in case the pizza guy got fresh.
Her cache somehow caught the attention of Lakewood Police, who paid a visit last September. When they found Rice wasn’t home, they asked an obliging employee of the complex to open up the apartment without her consent. Once inside, they raided the gun rack, making off with 13 firearms worth around $15,000. The only problem: They had no apparent reason to.
When Rice kindly asked to have her toys returned, the cops acknowledged that the weapons were legally owned. But they refused to return them without a court order. And so Rice has filed suit in Lakewood Municipal Court.
Let's look at this.
Under color of law, the local cops coerced apartment employees to let them into an apartment to which they had no legal right to enter. They lacked a warrant, any indication that a crime was in progress, or exigent circumstances that would allow for entry. Indeed, if they had any of the above they would have entered the apartment by busting the door down. They then seized items without a warrant, and refused to return them.
What you have there is theft -- and a violation of a little statute passed about 140 years ago that is still known as the Ku Klux Klan Act. If the Obama Regime still had a Justice Department that cared about the Constitution and the laws of the United States being faithfully enforced, we would have already seen indictments handed down and cops perp-walked out of the police headquarters.
Cops Steal Legal Guns -- Refuse To Return Them Without Court Order
I chose my words carefully -- and I think you'll understand why.
Francesca Rice no longer serves in her country’s armed forces, but she brought a piece of the action back home with her.
It seems the Lakewood vet had stockpiled her Edgewater Towers condo with a home arsenal including handguns, shotguns, a sniper rifle — plus a Thompson sub-machine gun, just in case the pizza guy got fresh.
Her cache somehow caught the attention of Lakewood Police, who paid a visit last September. When they found Rice wasn’t home, they asked an obliging employee of the complex to open up the apartment without her consent. Once inside, they raided the gun rack, making off with 13 firearms worth around $15,000. The only problem: They had no apparent reason to.
When Rice kindly asked to have her toys returned, the cops acknowledged that the weapons were legally owned. But they refused to return them without a court order. And so Rice has filed suit in Lakewood Municipal Court.
Let's look at this.
Under color of law, the local cops coerced apartment employees to let them into an apartment to which they had no legal right to enter. They lacked a warrant, any indication that a crime was in progress, or exigent circumstances that would allow for entry. Indeed, if they had any of the above they would have entered the apartment by busting the door down. They then seized items without a warrant, and refused to return them.
What you have there is theft -- and a violation of a little statute passed about 140 years ago that is still known as the Ku Klux Klan Act. If the Obama Regime still had a Justice Department that cared about the Constitution and the laws of the United States being faithfully enforced, we would have already seen indictments handed down and cops perp-walked out of the police headquarters.
http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/320769.php
Posted by: rumcrook at August 31, 2011 07:18 PM
