It’s easy to con someone who wants to be conned. The story was too good to check.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The White House goes Pravda, and sics the MSM on the GOP. And of course, it’s happy to oblige.
[Afternoon update]
The fired whistleblower speaks:
When asked if ATF had violated the law in this case, he responded:
Of course if violates the law! They conspired to traffic firearms, you can’t do that under color of law. … There was no intent to follow the guns, this never had a chance of succeeding. It was a failed plan from the beginning.
I think that this whole administration was a failed plan from the beginning, that never had a chance of succeeding. Fortunately, since success would have been even more disastrous, from the standpoint of maintaining our liberty, than their failure has been.
These (the press) are the people who think they deserve special protections not available to the rest of us. How about we won’t ride them out of town on a rail?
OK, here’s a question for the leftists.
If our OWN government is arming Mexican gang bangers and drug lords, WHY is it you think I shouldn’t have a gun to protect myself? ‘splain it to me again.
Maybe one of the jobs we’ll all be able to get, thanks to the WH efforts, is crime scene clean up! But, so far we can’t find out just who authorized this deal. But it seems to me that, of a Park Ranger ran over a chipmunk in Yosemite, GWB was to blame.
Suppose narco-terrorists had completely infiltrated the very highest levels of US law enforcement, taking over whole agencies, as has happened at times south of the border. Then suppose they wanted lots of US weapons to equip their private armies, but realized that large amounts of government money and military arms were too tightly controlled to access directly. But since the narco-terrorists don’t need federal money (they’re rolling in drug money) or guns from the US military, they just need law enforcement to look the other way as they buy tons of guns on the private market and ship them back to Mexico, all they would need their bought-and-paid for agency directors to do is something exactly like “Fast and Furious.”
When branches of the DOJ are running programs that are exactly the same as the ones drug lords would run if they controlled those branches, you’ve either got really, really stupid people in charge, really corrupt people in charge, or the agencies happen to have a goal that meshes with that of the nacro terrorists.
Why the use of “or,” George? I don’t see why all three things can’t be true.
‘or’, as used by mathematicians at least, is not exclusive. Multiple or all cases being true are covered.
Agents connected with this fiasco need to be threatened with criminal charges if they don’t cooperate in finding and prosecuting those who ordered the operation. Will never happen from the current injustice department.
Where’s the special prosecutor? This was MUCH more dangerous and deadly than the movie star and her husband.
The more egregious this gets, the less likely anything whatsoever will happen as a result. It just won’t go anywhere.
Just in from the LA Times, about ATF director Ken Melson.
So he says he’s not going to be the fall guy, and since he was fully informed of the operation, being used as a fall guy means people much higher up were involved.
Time to get some popcorn.
International border => State dept
Interagency operation => White House
Bureaucratic Federal government => Meetings, Procedures, Agreements & Signatures
But the WaPo lapdog articles simply illustrate that the MSM will not touch this if it’s administration critical; they feel it’s only of interest to “those gun nuts” who can’t even read the elite WaPo. Besides, we cannot criticize an AG of color. That would be racist.