DOJ coverup of multi-departmental failed Operation Fast and Furious where not only were guns allowed to be bought and taken into Mexico but FBI funds were even used to buy some of the guns. How high does the scandal go? In carefully worded statements both Eric Holder and the White House have said that they did not “approve” the operation but did not deny knowledge of it.
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July 6, 2011 05:00
Mexican lawmakers want to put US officials on trial for gunrunning scandal
Fast and Furious is the name of the deadly sting ATF operation that watched U.S. guns cross the border into Mexico and failed to keep track of them. Mexican lawmakers are now calling for the extradition of U.S. officials responsible for the failed operation to stand trial for the deaths of hundreds of Mexicans. Congressman Darrell Issa says the scandal leads to the top. Some believe the Obama administration allowed this deadly plan as a way to justify gun bans by executive order.
June 22, 2011 05:02
ATF agent says Holder involved or incompetent in gun scandal
ATF Special Agent Jay Dobyns appeared on FOX and claims Attorney General Eric Holder either knew of the fiasco known as fast and furious or is incompetent in running the Justice Department. Some suspect that allowing assault and sniper rifles to “walk” into Mexico was a way for the Obama administration to justify claims that US guns were being used in Mexican drug cartel violence. When guns which were allowed to walk into Mexico were found at the scene of a Border Patrol agent’s murder ATF agents that had opposed the operation exposed the scheme.
June 17, 2011 07:21
Obama’s the Target of Mexico Gunrunning Probe
From the Mexican standpoint, Operation Fast and Furious was an act of war on Mexico.
June 16, 2011 05:20
Gungate scandal grows – DOJ stonewalling
Department of Justice and Democrats on the Oversight committee site the internal DOJ investigation as a reason for stonewalling the committee’s investigation.
June 14, 2011 04:42
Obama, Democrats block investigation into deadly Project Gunrunner
The government has been trying to cover up, bury and thwart this investigation. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, discusses the upcoming Congressional hearings on Operation Fast and Furious and Project Gunrunner, which led to the deaths of Americans and Mexicans, as well as Mexican drug cartels possessing U.S. guns.
May 9, 2011 04:55
Government allowing guns to Mexican drug cartels
Senator Charles Grassley, (R-Iowa), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is trying to get to the bottom of the ATF’s disastrous gunrunning sting known as project gunrunner. Weapons the ATF allowed into the hands of Mexican drug cartels have been found at Mexican crime scenes including the murder of a US agent.
April 28, 2011 05:49
Rep. Issa says gunrunner scandal leads to the top
Rep. Darrell Issa (CA-49), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, discusses the Administration’s stonewalling of the Project Gunrunner investigation with Roger Hedgecock.
April 22, 2011 12:03
Mexico wants to sue U.S. gun makers – Obama’s plan with operation gunrunner?
CBS News has learned that the Mexican Government has retained an American law firm to explore filing civil charges against U.S. gun manufacturers and distributors over the flood of guns crossing the border into Mexico.
April 21, 2011 07:35
Project gunrunner scandal builds
In Project Gunrunner, ATF allowed American guns – including AK-47 assault rifles and military-grade, .50 caliber sniper rifles – to be smuggled into Mexico and sold to drug cartels, with the goal of tracking the weapons after they’ve been used. Was the Obama administration deliberately allowing guns to Mexican drug cartels so that it could make the claim that a gun ban is needed in the US?
