Holy crap. The MSM is truly nothing more than Pravda-Western Edition.

29Victor on June 26, 2012 at 9:20 PM

Actually, I trust RT (Russia today) far more than I do our own press when it comes to reporting on the US. I can’t believe that it has come to this…

Dude….there’s not going to be a contempt vote. Sure, there’s one scheduled, but it will never happen. Boehner will make sure of that.

xblade on June 27, 2012 at 2:37 AM

No vote? Boehner is working behind the scenes with the Dems to undermine Repubs like Issa, who want some justice for the Terrys as well as the rest of us who still believe that having a king is a bad idea?

How much are you willing to bet that you’re right? :)

Then how did it become known to exist?

Buddahpundit on June 26, 2012 at 11:45 PM

Just a late followup to this question… The gunshops. You see, the gunshops have to phone in the firearms and buyer info for background checks. When they raised concerns over positive checks for obvious criminals, the ATF informed them to comply (or else) since they were part of a sting. Several shops expressed additional concern, coupled with a few concerned ATF agents, and… this is where we are today.

I would suggest starting with the Sipsey Street Irregulars website.

PolAgnostic on June 26, 2012 at 11:56 PM

Great stuff, thanks!

1. He didn’t care, or
2. He is monumentally stupid, or
3. He had some help that would plant the guns at the scene of real crimes already committed.

3 is my guess and it accounts for the objection that criminals do not typically leave weapons at the scene of their crimes.
So who has strong presence in Mexico and is a friend of liberal causes?
Carlos Slim? George Soros?
Of course real criminals are not going to pass up a chance to gun someone down they want done in, and use somebody else’s gun as a decoy. That’s where the “plan” went wrong. That’s why Holder was going to have a big news event and then backed away… guns started not just “showing up”, they were used as the murder weapon!

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” ― Albert Einstein

This claim that “Bush did it too” merely shows that the Obama Administration is at least equally stupid and probably more so for following a stupid program with an even stupider, bigger program.

Then how did it become known to exist? Why would Obama let those serial numbers be traced right to his gun running program?

Buddahpundit on June 26, 2012 at 11:45 PM

Whistle blowers ratted the program out to Congress which is how this came to light. Justice certainly did not admit the program existed when asked.

No, I’m not saying Bush himself would direct such an action.

Buddahpundit on June 26, 2012 at 11:45 PM

That’s good, because the action that Bush did direct – Wide Receiver – was conducted with the knowledge and co-operation of the Mexican government; and NO guns were lost to the cartels and NO people were killed.

Under obama’s direction, however, Fast&Furious delivered over 2500 guns to the drug cartels and directly caused the deaths of over 300 Mexican citizens and at least two American law enforcement officers.
(And, yeah, I’m saying that obama himself would conceive and direct such an action.)

So the question is, why won’t Holder help us eliminate those impossible answers?

There are Republican-friendlies in the cartel. Bush had a lot of friends. Held parties for the various governors who obviously are connected to the cartels. No, I’m not saying Bush himself would direct such an action.

Buddahpundit on June 26, 2012 at 11:45 PM

Well, why don’t you name the Republican-friendlies in the cartel?
And, while you’re at it, name the various governors who “obviously” (lol) are connected to the cartels.

And, if you can’t name names, then we’ll reluctantly have to conclude that you’re just another leftist, lying sack of sh!t.

You people reek of desperation!

CNN should be deeply ashamed for publishing such nonsense.

morganfrost on June 27, 2012 at 8:25 AM

CNN’s never shown shame for anything, except when they get caught.

They falsely accused the US of dropping nerve gas on civilians in Laos, covered up Saddam Hussein’s atrocities against his own citizens for a decade, had their CEO resign in disgrace after he falsely accused US soldiers of “murdering” Iraqi journalists, and happily showed videos supplied by the US’s enemies showing the sniper’s eyes views of their American targets, just before they pulled their triggers.

They’re a Joke.

For any of you mainstream media types reading this, there are two simple questions I would like answers for:

1. What did the president know?

2. When did he know it?

Thank you.

Of course I don’t expect our lamestream media – the presidential PR firms known as ABC / CBS/ NBC / CNN / PBS / NPR to show any interest in this story. They’re too busy promoting the president’s re-election.

Orson Buggeigh on June 27, 2012 at 10:32 AM | Delete | Delete and Ban

Now the MSM asks:

1. Who cares what the President knows?

2. And if he knows, so what?!

Who’da thunk it?

I’ll answer for them

Know what?

1. What did the president know?

2. When did he know it?

Thank you.

Of course I don’t expect our lamestream media – the presidential PR firms known as ABC / CBS/ NBC / CNN / PBS / NPR to show any interest in this story. They’re too busy promoting the president’s re-election.

Then how did it become known to exist? Why would Obama let those serial numbers be traced right to his gun running program?

Because the BATF required the dealers to record the s/n’s of each weapon being sold. I wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to put together a list of s/n’s and buyers…duplicates would receive attention. That attention would then be attributed to the BATF authorizing mass qty purchases.