It now appears that Fast and Furious was a part of a web of dubious and even illegal activities being done through the Justice Department.
According to the Washington Times:
The ATF didn’t “lose” some 2,000 firearms to Mexican gun smugglers. The bureau intentionally allowed firearms to “walk” from U.S. gun stores to members of the Sinaloa drug cartel. For another, Fast and Furious is only one spoke in an entire wheel of extralegal intrigue. For example:
Mr. Issa’s subpoena demands all Justice Department documents “referring or relating to the murder of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata, including any correspondence outlining the details of Zapata’s mission at the time he was murdered.”
Zapata’s assassination didn’t receive nearly the publicity afforded U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry – despite the fact that both men died at the hands of drug thugs wielding ATF-enabled weapons. But Zapata’s case is the more potentially revealing of the two.
In February, cartel members stopped Zapata’s car as he drove from Monterrey to Mexico City. Thanks to his partner, Victor Avila (who survived the attack), we know Zapata’s last words: “We’re Americans. We’re diplomats.”
Zapata was not a diplomat but he was on some sort of diplomatic mission. According to both Mexican and American authorities, Zapata’s killers belonged to the Los Zetas drug cartel. Given accusations that the U.S. government has been supporting the Zetas’ deadly enemy – the Sinaloa cartel, recipients of Fast and Furious firearms – Zapata’s death could be directly related to America’s covert policy to choose sides in the “war on drugs.”
It’s highly unlikely the attorney general will fully honor Mr. Issa’s request for the details surrounding Zapata’s murder. Zapata’s death is the proverbial loose thread. If Mr. Holder releases the intelligence, Mr. Issa could use it to unravel a wide range of illegal activities. Truth be told, there are at least half a dozen other black bag jobs that Mr. Holder’s Justice Department would dearly like to keep under wraps.
There’s the FBI’s manipulation of the instant background check system to allow ATF-monitored felons to purchase firearms from U.S. gun stores. There’s Operation Castaway, another gun smuggling operation run out of Tampa, Fla. There’s the U.S. attorney’s office’s decision to overrule the ATF and release from custody a man who made machine guns and grenades. The man returned to Mexico.
There’s U.S.-government-sponsored arms and ammunition (including grenades) sales to the Mexican military and police – knowing full well that weapons seep to the drug cartels. There are the Mexican military raids against Zetas cartel members launched from U.S. soil.
There’s the sworn testimony of a captured cartel boss languishing in a Chicago prison. Vicente Zambada-Niebla says the U.S. government turned a blind eye to his narcoterrorist organization’s drug smuggling as part of America’s fight against Los Zetas.
Of course, US Attorney General Eric Holder still claims that he did not know about Operation Fast and Furious while it was in operation. Could it be that his denials are both an attempt to shield himself from prosecution, and to keep the investigation focused on Fast and Furious so that other illegalities will not surface?
As for Holder’s denials, video has now surfaced dated March 2011 where President Obama admitted that he knew about Fast and Furious and that he had apparently talked about the issue with Holder. Yet, Holder in his testimony to Congress in May 2011 said that he had only heard about the program weeks before:
(H/t Sister Toldjah)
There is now too much evidence to possibly believe Holder’s testimony. It is time for him to come clean before Congress, and it is time–one way or another–for him to go.
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- ROBERT FARAGO: ATF Death Watch 100: Feds Fed Fast and Furious Firearms to the Sinaloans. “We don (pajamasmedia.com)
- Fast and Furious update: Cranking up the pressure, plus DOJ gets the Misfit Politics treatment; UPDATE: New subpoena issued today (michellemalkin.com)
- Issa subpoenas Holder, DoJ for full documentation on Fast & Furious (hotair.com)
- Eric Holder Knew About Fast and Furious, Lied to Congress (treeofmamre.wordpress.com)
- Holder Behind Fast and Furious, Must Take Responsibility For It (treeofmamre.wordpress.com)
- “Fast and Furious” E-mails Lead Straight to the White House (treeofmamre.wordpress.com)
- Holder Subpoenaed to Appear Before Oversight Committee to Testify About Gunrunning (sfcmac.wordpress.com)
- Issa to Holder: You own Fast and Furious, champ (hotair.com)
I just wonder if anyone is ever going to be held accountable for their actions!
My guess is that this will result in resignations and perhaps perjury and obstruction charges. This will not end like Solyndra, with a shrug of the shoulders.
That video is really making the rounds, This was my comment at two other sites:
“I’m beginning to wonder if Eric Holder is a Venezuelan. Here, when people use the term “the other day” they may be talking about something from one or two years ago. I drives me crazy when my wife does that and I’m trying to remember back a day or two and she is talking ancient history.”
AS to ethnicity, he appears first and foremost to be a Lawyer from the land of Impenetrable Legalese. You know the type–the one’s who spend their time arguing over the meaning of “is”. I loved what Shakespeare had to say about them.
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I’ve wondered before about this. As crooked as these guys are on the surface, “who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” And, should we want all of this out now, while the bad guys are in charge, or do we hope for it to draw out long enough for us to get some White Hats into the shootout?
They appear to be evil to the core, but this is the worst kind of evil, as I am sure that they think they are doing good. This needs to come out now, or it may never come out. There is a lot more about Watergate, for example, that never reached the surface, because of Ford pardoning Nixon.