There is a laundry list of issues that may lead to Barack Obama being a one-term president. There’s his massive, debt-financed spending plans designed to boost the economy that, of course, failed. There’s his seemingly incoherent foreign policy. There’s his complete grasp of how jobs are created. But there is another issue that is waiting to explode. Obama’s administration has been involved in the idiotic plan of allowing American guns to be sold to Mexican drug dealers. These guns were used to kill an American Border Patrol Agent. So… what did Obama know, and when did he know it?
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. This committee is tasked with investigating the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms (ATF) and their so-called sting known as Operation Fast and Furious. Issa is trying to figure out which Obama official authorized the program in which “purchasers were allowed to buy guns in the U.S. — in some cases, with taxpayer money, Issa said — and then send those guns to Mexican drug cartels.”
As CNSNews.com reports, the operation was established “to track the guns to see where they’d end up, but Issa says tracking devices were not put on most of the guns:”
“With only two exceptions where they put tracking devices on (the guns) was there any physical tracking beyond basically a few hours of following the first car, at most. In one case, they did watch (the guns) go on a GPS device quite a ways into Mexico, but of course they didn’t inform the Mexican officials, and they didn’t have a team on the other side of the border to follow it, so at some point the signal simply disappeared.”
In December 2010, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered. At the scene were two rifles that were sold to a smuggler through the ATF’s Fast and Furious program.
CNSNews.com has an outstanding timeline of the program.
In this operation, which began in the fall of 2009 and continued into early 2011, the federal government purposefully allowed known or suspected gun smugglers to purchase guns at federally licensed firearms dealers in Arizona. The government did not seek to abort these gun purchases, intercept the smugglers after the purchases, or recover the guns they had purchased. In some cases, as the government expected they would, the smugglers delivered the guns to Mexico drug traffickers.
Can you say INSANITY? The Obama administration puts together a program to track guns all the way to the bad guys, but doesn’t actually track the guns and certainly doesn’t get the bad guys. They basically made it easier for Mexican drug smugglers to get guns… guns that were used to kill an American!
Sean Hannity, on his Fox News program, interviewed Issa on his investigation into Operation Fast and Furious:
Here’s Part 2 of the interview:
CNSNews.com’s White House correspondent asked a simple question during a recent press briefing: What was the exact date that Obama learned about the ATF operation. Here’s the response:
And so we have a program that was designed to fail… a program that purposely allowed guns to get into the hands of Mexican drug dealers. Aren’t liberals supposed to be in favor of stronger gun control? Does that only apply to Americans and not to guns being used against Americans?
As Issa commented in the CNSNews.com story, “Because the operation involved wiretaps and other agencies — including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Arizona — Issa said it’s clear to him that the guns-to-Mexico operation goes to the ‘highest levels’ of the Justice Department.”
This program is so plain stupid that it smacks of Obama thinking it up himself. What did he know, and when did he know it? Those are the questions.
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