Does Fast and Furious Put Impeachment on The Table?

[Jake Martinez]

Do our Congressional Representatives have the fortitude? No Guts-No Glory!

Posted on The Patriot Post-By Ben Shapiro (Archive)-On September 28, 2011:

“The story is one of not covert activity alone,” intoned Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, “but of covert foreign policy .... It is a tale of working outside the system and of utilizing irregular channels and private parties accountable to no one, on matters of national security, while ignoring the Congress and even the traditional agencies of executive foreign policy making. The story is both sad and sordid.”

Sen. Inouye was speaking not of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration, but of the biggest scandal of the Reagan administration—the Iran-Contra scandal. In that scandal, the United States sold weapons to parties in Iran in an attempt to free Lebanese-held hostages, then funneled the weapons cash to the anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua. The outcome of that scandal: indictments against the secretary of defense, the national security advisor, the assistant secretary of state, the chief of covert ops at the CIA and several others.

That scandal pales by comparison to the so-called Fast and Furious scandal now bubbling in Washington, D.C. In fall 2009, Eric Holder and the Department of Justice decided on a strategy supposedly designed to combat gun trafficking on the Mexican border. They didn’t want the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to seize illegal firearms anymore; instead, they wanted them to give firearms to members of the Mexican cartels.

According to the Congressional report, “ATFs Phoenix Field Division began allowing suspects to walk away with illegally purchased guns .... This shift in strategy was known and authorized at the highest levels of the Justice Department.” One goal was to identify “straw purchasers”—legal gun purchasers who hand off those guns to illegal owners. Instead of arresting the straw purchasers and their contacts, however, ATF was to allow the guns to continue to flow to the Mexican drug cartels. “ATF and DOJ leadership were interested in seeing where these guns would ultimately end up,” the report states. “ATF would only see these guns again after they turned up at a crime scene.”

That’s exactly what happened. The entire operation ended with only 20 indictments of straw purchasers—indictments that could have happened immediately upon transfer of the weapons, stopping the flow. In fact, the straw purchasers, at issue, were known to be straw purchasers from the get-go. The indictments only took place at all because U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered using the weapons authorized for free flow by ATF and DOJ. Terry wasn’t the only person killed because of Fast and Furious—the weapons OK’d by the DOJ and ATF were used in three murders, four kidnappings and an attempted murder in Mexico. They’ve been identified at 11 other crime scenes in the United States.

So what was the real goal of the DOJ and ATF? It certainly wasn’t to shut down access to arms for the cartels—the ATF was agreeing to such access. It wasn’t to stop straw purchasers—the ATF was signing off on the straw purchasers. It wasn’t to track the movements of the cartel—there was no way to do that. It was, very simply, to establish for political reasons that American guns were being used in crimes by foreign cartels.

This was the Reichstag fire of the Second Amendment. By authorizing the passage of weapons to America’s enemies, President Obama and his administration clearly wanted to set up a narrative that America’s lax gun laws were killing American troops and law enforcement officers. They wanted their misuse of law enforcement authority to create the impetus for a crackdown on gun sales in the United States.

How high does this go? Apparently, all the way to the top. The attorney general of the state of Arizona, a Democrat operative, has already resigned in an attempt to avoid the consequences of participating in this fiasco. Middle management at DOJ and ATF has already been thrown under the bus. The acting director of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, has already been defenestrated.

For his part, Obama has denied that Attorney General Eric Holder green-lit the operation, stating, “My attorney general has made clear he certainly would not have ordered gun running to be able to pass through into Mexico.” This is less than credible—how could the head of the DOJ not know about an operation of this magnitude handled by the DOJ? And how could President Obama not know? And why, if the DOJ is uninvolved, do they want a copy of Melson’s confidential interview with Congressional staff?

If this scandal runs all the way up the chain of command—and by all indicators, it could—it is certainly an impeachable offense. This is a high crime, not a misdemeanor.

Pushing an operation designed to undercut American freedoms that ends with the death of Americans is not only illegal, it is unconscionable. And unlike Iran-Contra, it wasn’t done for the right reasons.”

Source:

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/ben-shapiro/2011/09/28/does-fast-and-...

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and videos relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. Taxpayers Paid for “Fast and Furious” Plan to Arm the Sinaloa Drug Cartel!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Ben Johnson-On September 26, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/taxpayers-paid-for-fast-and-furious-plan-to...

II. Christian Blogger Ordered to Surrender His Guns!-Posted on WND.com-By Joe Kovacs-On September 29, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=349713

III. Video: The UN Considers Gun Regulation Treaty!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-On October 2, 2011:

http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/10/02/video-the-un-considers-gun-re...

IV. Video: Fierce Battle Over Gun Rights!-Posted on FoxNews.com-On August 5, 2011:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1095760427001/fierce-battle-over-gun-rights

V. Video: How Obama and the UN Undermine Gun Rights!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-On June 12, 2011:

http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/06/12/video-how-obama-and-the-un-un...

VI. Obama: We're working on gun control 'under the radar'-Posted on WND.com-By Jeff Knox-On April 26, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=292025

VII. The Obama Investigations!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Mike Brownfield-On September 21, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/09/21/morning-bell-the-obama-investig...

VIII. Obama’s Predictable Scandals!-Posted on National Review Online-By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON-On September 21, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277797/obama-s-predictable-s...

IX. Washington Times Columnist to Obama: Resign!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Ben Johnson-On August 12, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/washington-times-columnist-to-obama-resign/

X. A Congressman Confirms GOP is Talking Impeachment!-Posted on Floyd Report-By Ben Johnson-On July 9, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/a-congressman-confirms-gop-is-talking-impea...

XI. Video: Why This President Is So Dangerous'!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-On July 9, 2011:

http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/07/09/video-finally-a-congressman-t...

Note:  The following websites reveal that George Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI) and groups that promote a variety of leftwing causes are strong advocates of gun control and fund the Arms Control Association (ACA), which outlines the UN Process on Small Arms, along with the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) that is global movement against gun violence, which has lobbied the United Nations to pass a measure outlawing private gun ownership and effectively overturning the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, along with the-You Decide: 


I. Arms Control Association (ACA):

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6924

II. Arms Control Association (ACA): UN Process on Small Arms:

http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2007_03/Anders

III. International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA): Global Movement Against Gun Violence:

http://www.iansa.org/aboutus

IV. International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA): National Gun Laws:

http://www.iansa.org/workarea/national-gun-laws

V. International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) Members:

http://www.iansa.org/region/americas

VI. International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA): New US Government Plan to Tackle Arms Trafficking to Mexico!-Posted on July 15, 2011:

http://www.iansa.org/news/2011/07/us-new-government-plan-to-tackle-...

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Did ATF provide weapons to Mexican drug cartels that were subsequently used to kill one of our own?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/did-atf-provide-weapons-to...

What is the true intent of the UN Small Arms Treaty?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/what-is-the-true-intent-of...

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-underst...

Washington Times Calls for Obama’s Impeachment!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/washington-times-calls-for...

Note:  If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts please copy web site and paste it on your browser. Be aware that some of the articles and/or blog posts or videos listed within the contents of the above blog post(s) may have been removed by this administration because they may have considered them to be too controversial.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may shed some negative light on this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.

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Jake