Imagine the DEA telling pharmacists to illegally sell oxycontin to known drug dealers or they would be shut down. Then imagine the DEA using the fact that more oxycontin was on the street (and hundreds of overdose deaths) as a pretext for making it harder for patients to get prescribed narcotics. This is essentially what happened with the ATF and Project Gunwalker
And as for evidence that this was part of a push by the administration on gun control, I should have pointed this out yesterday.
I’ve heard a lot of folks wondering if this is what Obama meant back when he said he was working on gun control under the radar.
Let’s hope that the radar lights this up very brightly. If we can’t get a federal investigation into this, I would suggest that relatives of the victims killed by these weapons file a suit against BATF and the Justice Department, and name Eric Holder. Discovery would be very interesting.
[Update mid afternoon]
You don’t say. This requires a special counsel investigation:
we’ve discovered that the president and Democratic lawmakers have lied, and continue to lie, about the role of American guns and American small businessmen in arming drug cartels south of the border. We’ve watched as they’ve lied, and continue to lie, blaming gun shops for the carnage that has resulted from the depravity of Mexican narco-terrorists.
We’ve watched as ATF special agents and supervisors testified in front of Congress, angry and ashamed, about how the multi-agency task force they were a part of was responsible for arming the cartel gunmen that have killed scores of law enforcement officers and civilians in two countries.
This scandal must come to an end not with graceful and fault-free resignations, but with deliberate and careful prosecutions of those responsible.
There were four federal agencies involved in Gunwalker, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Each of these agencies deserves dishonor and a thorough post-mortem review from their own respective inspectors general. But that is simply a start towards righting an unconscionable wrong.
But at least it would be a start.
I don’t see how in a practical sense this doesn’t lead back to the president. Are we to believe he and Holder never discussed any of this?
Maybe it only went as high as Joe Biden.
Holder: “Oh, and Mr. Vice President, I’ve also taken it upon myself to direct the ATF to conduct a program of arming narco-terrorists that will get us all impeached and jailed, if not lynched or shot.”
Biden: “You’ve got initiative. We need more of that in Washington. And Coney stands. Washington needs more of those, too.”
Holder: “Should I discuss it with the President?”
Biden: “Nah. He wouldn’t want his golf schedule interrupted for something so minor that it would bring down our entire administration only if word leaked out, and what are the odds of a leak in Washington?”
Holder: “Miniscule, sir. White folks never talk, cause they’re all racist cowards. Except for you, sir.”
Biden: “Thanks. It’s nice to see I’m appreciated by colored folk. Anyway, miniscule. I like that word. I’m going to have to work that into a speech soon. You know, I’m addressing a midget convention next week. Maybe I’ll use it there.”
Hrm… No, now I think it would’ve gone higher than Biden.
Funny ^^
That beats Obama is Awesome.
As I understand it, the drug cartels are not just fighting each other (with civilians caught in the crossfire), they’re also fighting big time against the Mexican government. Isn’t arming anti-government forces in a neighboring country considered an act of war? If not then it is surely a huge diplomatic gaffe and yet another unforced error.
The present administration grows more alarming week to week. The bureaucracy is running wild and the Constitution be damned (EPA, NLRB, ATF, all ruling by diktat and apparently running themselves). Obama has no experience as a CEO and it shows – he’s out golfing.