Fast And Furious Gun Control Plot Was Widely Known
Posted 02/13/2012 06:54 PM ET
Scandal: A drug enforcement agent says other agencies knew in 2009 about the Justice Department's gunrunning operation and even tried to interdict the weapons flow. And, yes, it was a gun-control plot.
The notion that Fast and Furious was a localized operation run out of the Phoenix office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives of which few, particularly the arguably clueless Attorney General Eric Holder, were aware continues to be exposed as the lie it is.
"In 2009, I became aware that ATF was walking guns," Tony Coulson, who was in charge of the Drug Enforcement Agency-Tucson during Operation Fast and Furious, said in a recent interview with Michel Marizco of the website Fronteras.
"I also learned that Homeland Security Investigations, then ICE, actually interceded on more than one occasion where they seized weapons at the ports of entry when they were heading southbound contrary to ATF's plans."
The statements by the now-retired Coulson confirm the testimony of ATF agents themselves that providing guns to Mexican drug cartels was intended, not accidental. "Allowing loads of weapons that we knew to be destined for criminals — this was the plan," John Dodson, an ATF agent, testified before the House Government Oversight Committee.
"It was so mandated," ATF agent Olindo James Casa said before the committee, adding that "on several occasions I personally requested to interdict or seize firearms, but I was always ordered to stand down and not to seize the firearms."
Coulson paints a picture not of a well-intentioned local program gone rogue, but of a operation widely known throughout the Obama administration, one deliberately intended to promote the need for gun control. Other agencies knew of the operation and tried to stop the flow of guns to Mexican criminals and drug cartels.
In the Fronteras interview, Coulson also claimed ATF knew that what has come to be known as the "90% lie" was a myth. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others had been pushing the line that 90% of guns seized in Mexico came from the U.S.
"Among federal law enforcement, that became somewhat of a joke," Coulson said. "We all knew that was whatever weapons the Mexican government decided to follow or trace back to the U.S. and never took into account the weapons that came in from Central America, from other countries around the world."
This myth was behind the Justice Department announcement last April 25 that it was making 8,500 gun stores in Arizona, California, Texas and New Mexico report individual purchases of multiple rifles of greater than .22 caliber by law-abiding American citizens to the ATF because — get this — such guns are "frequently recovered at violent crime scenes near the Southwest border."
In the Fronteras interview, Coulson said that when he took the gun walking to his bosses in Phoenix, he was told the lead law enforcement official in Arizona — U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke — was already aware of it.
Burke, who has resigned, has long been a gun-ban architect for the Democratic Party and was behind the ineffectual 1994 "assault weapon" ban that expired in 2004.
Burke was also the former chief of staff for former Gov. Janet Napolitano for a number of years before she became the secretary of Homeland Security. She, as well as Eric Holder, have some explaining to do about what she knew and when she knew it.
As the lies and disinformation pile up, so does evidence that Fast and Furious was intended not to interdict gun trafficking, but make the administration's case for more gun control and infringement of our Second Amendment rights.
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...obama doesn't like people who cling to their guns and religion. He calls us "Wingers".
Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!
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