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September 02, 2011

GunWalker Cover-Up Comes Apart At The Seams

It's starting to fall apart for Eric Holder's Justice Department and the Obama Administration, as you'll see in my latest article at Pajamas Media.

Media Matters has made their normal dysfunctional attempt to shield the Administration, in this case, the opinion of Michael Sullivan, a acting ATF director under the Bush Administration, as cited in an interview with Kelly Wright on Fox News.

KELLY WRIGHT (ANCHOR): The President says he knew nothing about the operation, but the Justice Department has been slow in responding. Do you think this will lead all the way to the White House being involved?

SULLIVAN: I would be surprised. From our experience at ATF, firearms trafficking cases were fairly routine in terms of the nature and scope of the investigations. They didn't require authorities outside of ATF, and for the purpose of initiating it. Could folks have been briefed up, considering the violence in Mexico and the violence on the border, about the strategy, that's clearly possible. But the project itself was well within the rights of the director to essentially approve or to reject.

Media Matters, of course, refuses to provide some key details about Fast and Furious, starting with the fact that no ATF director has the authority to approve a gun-walking program, just interdiction programs. Nor do they have the authority to authorize a program that spans international borders as Fast and Furious was designed to do from the outset.

The fact remains that multiple cabinet-level agencies—as many as four, including DOJ, DHS, Treasury, and State—colluded in Operation Fast and Furious had to work together, and the most logical nexus for such a high profile operation are political appointees in each of those organizations and the elected officials that appointed them.

That doesn't fit the narrative fiction Media Matters would like to propagate, but hey, they've aren't paid by a foreign felon to spread the truth.

Posted by Confederate Yankee at September 2, 2011 03:50 PM
Comments

Woudn't it be better if the ATF focused on what they really do the best?

(harass licensed gun dealers)

Posted by: Danny at September 2, 2011 05:23 PM

I find it NOT coincidental that in 2009 the President and DoJ were constantly giving speeches about how 90% of the guns being used in the cartel wars in Mexico were from the USofA......of course he was briefed on F&F with ATF. This was his "ticket" to renew the failed "assault weapons" ban!

If he, and AG Holder, weren't briefed on F&F then how would their respective speech writers and policy advisors know, or fabricate, such high percentages of illegal US weapons?!?! In fact, if the President wasn't aware of this program WHY would he even make such high profile speeches about the topic?

Again, this was nothing more than a poorly executed plot line from a Tom Clancy wanna' be staff. The goal was gun control from the word "go".

BW1

Posted by: Blackwatch1 at September 2, 2011 05:26 PM

@ BW1, kinda hits the nail on the head.

Posted by: gDavid at September 3, 2011 03:22 AM

Someday soon, and it won't be long, none of this will matter. It will not matter because Civil War Part 2 will commence. THe union was broken long ago, soon it will be obvious that the union no longer matters and the various regions will secede based upon shared commercial and ideological agreements. This is the new world order. Think & act locally.

Posted by: Parker at September 4, 2011 12:36 AM