FAST AND FURIOUS IS NOT A D.C. LAW FIRM

July 11, 2012

Most Americans don't care about whether Attorney General Eric Holder is hiding Fast and Furious documents because they don't understand the story.

Until someone can tell us otherwise, there is only one explanation for why President Obama's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gave thousands of guns to Mexican drug dealers: It put guns in their hands to strengthen liberals' argument for gun control.

Precisely because this is such a jaw-dropping accusation -- criminality at the highest level of government to score a political point -- Republicans refuse to make it.

But the problem with Republican rectitude in discussing this scandal is that as soon as they start talking about subpoenas and dates and documents, TV channels change across America. They're never going to get answers unless they first explain to the American people why it matters.

Liberals have been dying to reinstate the so-called "assault weapons" ban, but they haven't been able to for political reasons. (For more information on this, see the 1994 congressional elections.)

A typically idiotic Democratic scheme, the "assault weapons" ban prohibited the sale of semiautomatics that are operationally indistinguishable from deer rifles, but which looked scary to liberal women.

First, the Democrats tried lying about how American guns were being found in the hands of Mexican drug dealers -- while demanding a renewal of the assault weapons ban.

Obama had barely unpacked at the White House, when he and high-level administration officials and Senate Democrats -- Holder, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Sen. Chuck Schumer -- started railing about how our lax gun control laws were putting guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

In 2010, even Mexico's President Felipe Calderon demanded that the U.S. reinstate the assault weapons ban -- on the grounds that Mexican drug violence was directly linked to the law's repeal.

The claim was preposterous for many reasons, including the fact that the type and quantity of armaments being used by Mexican drug cartels can be obtained only from places such as North Korea, China, Russia, Venezuela and Guatemala.

The notion that most guns used by Mexican drug gangs came from the U.S. was a lie -- exposed on about 1 million gun blogs and on Fox News.

So, then the Obama administration did exactly what Democrats had been falsely accusing American gun sellers of doing: They put American guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

The only explanation for Fast and Furious is that it was a program to prop up a losing gun control argument. The Waco and Ruby Ridge raids were monstrous, but they at least made sense as simple screw-ups: (1) ATF's budget was about to be cut and it needed some showy raids; and (2) law enforcement officials detest private gun ownership on principle.

There is no conceivable law enforcement objective to giving Mexican drug dealers thousands of untrackable guns. It's not even fun for the agents, like an armed raid on a private home. If there's some other explanation, Holder isn't telling.

Republicans refuse to state this clearly because they can't prove it. Instead, they just keep chattering about the documents that haven't been turned over and subpoenas that haven't been answered.

Did Democrats wait for a smoking gun to accuse Karl Rove of treason for revealing Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA agent? It turned out Rove didn't reveal it, and it wouldn't have been a crime if he had.

Did they wait for proof to accuse Sen. John McCain of committing adultery? They had none, and yet that story ran on the front page of The New York Times.

Did they have any evidence before accusing the entire Republican House leadership of complicity in Mark Foley's creepy emails to young male interns? See if you can guess. Take all the time you need. Feel free to call one of your "lifelines" if necessary.

Liberals just make wild-eyed accusations and demand Republicans prove themselves innocent. (Say, whatever happened to Karl Rove's trial for treason for outing Valerie Plame? Can somebody call Lawrence O'Donnell and check on that?)

If conservatives were our only source of information about 9/11, no one would care about that, either. Somehow they'd make it about Osama bin Laden not answering a subpoena.

This isn't just another government program gone bad -- a $300 ashtray, stimulus money fraud, Solyndra or Van Jones.

It isn't just a story about some government official refusing to testify.

It isn't even a story about an American dying as a result of a government program, as outrageous as that is. Yes, Brian Terry died at the hands of a Mexican using a Holder-provided American gun. Pat Tillman died. Ron Brown died. People sometimes die as a result of government screw-ups. Fast and Furious is worse.

Innocent people dying was the objective of Fast and Furious, not collateral damage.

It would be as if the Bush administration had implemented a covert operation to dump a dangerous abortifacient in Planned Parenthood clinics, resulting in hundreds of women dying -- just to give pro-lifers an argument about how dangerous abortion clinics are.

That's what Fast and Furious is about.

COPYRIGHT 2012 ANN COULTER

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"People died when Holder lied."

Ann is stating facts that became obvious when F&F was first exposed. Sad how short our memories and gutless our politicians.

Robert

Speaking of short memories, Ann should do a piece on the people who died as a result of Operation Wide Receiver.

Why don't libs have anything to say other than: "It's all Bush's fault?"

Why don't libs have anything to say other than: "It's all Bush's fault?"

because, They are so open minded, their brains fell out!!

Up

Who's blaming Bush? These operations originated from the same people through both administrations. Fast and Furious is just an extension of Wide Receiver. The world doesn't begin and end with each administration.

I'm surprised she mentioned Pat Tillman. By her reasoning, we should hold Bush accountable for the cover-up. He was in charge.

Johnny, read up some and you'll know the difference between both operations.

http://lonelyconservative.com/2011/11/the-difference-between-bushs-wide-receiver-and-obamas-fast-and-furious/

And so we have a Senator and a Congressman who take their job seriously. They must be asking themselves "why bother?"

toolmaker, I never said they were the same. Operation Wide Receiver and Fast & Furious both came from the ATF's "Project Gunrunner" started in 2005.

Johnny you are truly an uninformed bloviator. If you knew the difference and still made that statement you are worse, you are just another liberal progressive commie sympathizing puke liar.

Just my opinion of course.

HM

Johnny, quote: "Speaking of short memories, Ann should do a piece on the people who died as a result of Operation Wide Receiver."

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/the-5-biggest-differences-between-operation-fast-and-furious-and-operation-wide-receiver/

From the link:

(1) First and foremost, operation Wide Receiver did not result in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent or an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. Fast and Furious did. The guns that ultimately killed Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and ICE officer Jamie Zapata were traced back to straw purchasers related to Fast and Furious. Zapata’s family filed a wrongful death suit against the U.S. Justice Department last week.

Further, officials have confirmed that the guns from Fast and Furious have already killed hundreds of Mexican citizens and Holder has said on the record that they will likely kill many more. The total number of confirmed deaths so far from Wide Receiver: Zero.

Up For The Truth

B n O, do you honestly think that no deaths occurred because of Operation Wide Receiver? I would wager that it resulted in hundreds of Mexican deaths. Of course they won't be confirmed.

halfmile, where is my lie?

What lie?

Q. what are the (real) products the cartels work with?

Jul 17 09:55 HSBC chief quits in front of US Senate committee as bank is accused of ‘letting Mexican gangs launder $7 billion The report into HSBC, released ahead of a Senate hearing on Tuesday, says huge sums of Mexican drug money almost certainly passed through the bank.

Suspicious funds from Syria, the Cayman Islands, Iran and Saudi Arabia also passed through the British bank.

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Now I ask, What is F&F got to do with (7) BILLION$ Dollars?

"B n O, do you honestly think that no deaths occurred because of Operation Wide Receiver? I would wager that it resulted in hundreds of Mexican deaths. Of course they won't be confirmed."

Pure conjecture.

You should consider that proving the Bush operation also resulted in deaths would be advantageous to Holder. They're trying to claim Bush did the same thing, and if deaths occurred under his watch then they'd be shouting that as loud as they could.

Photo of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton posed before the White House Christmas tree with known cocaine smuggler and Clinton donor Jorge Cabreras.

B n O, pure conjecture? I would call it pure reasoning. Surely you don't believe deaths occurred under one operation but not the other. Both operations were a bad idea that should never have happened.

Johnny,

Show us the proof!!!!

Bernie

Liberals/socialists/marxists don't know truth, just lies and conjecture to get their point across. They hope dumb people will believe them and many do. Most people live in their little world and seldom get involved. That's why people like little johnny get away with their lies and conjecture.

What lies have I told?

As for proof, How about proof of this statement:Further, officials have confirmed that the guns from Fast and Furious have already killed hundreds of Mexican citizens.

What officials and how was this confirmed? If it's in the Blaze, no questions asked.

OOOOHH!!! Make sure you'all call your senators, right away!!

I see no proof offered on your part, Johnny. Just pure speculation. And erroneous speculation at that.

Johnny just doesnm't get it! The PROOF is that two U.S. Agents DIED--NOBODY made that up! and they were killed with guns Obama and Holder put into Mexico! Noboy knows how many mexicans died. He wants desperiately to find "something" to blame Bush for, because his liberal demoRAT heros have screwed the pooch so bad! He wouldn't see the truth if it ran over him in a truck! He is the typical praise Obama and "Blame Bush" liberal! Obama will NEVER do any wrong in his eyes! Fast and Furious did what it was designed to do! It INTENTIONALLY put illegal guns into Mexico so Obama and his crooked pals could trump the "need" for more gun control! NO OTHER REASON! Wide reciever (though ill advised) didn't even come CLOSE to doing what Fast and Furious did! Obama and Holder had NO intention of tracking guns PERIOD! They pulled an illegal scam to put out false info to support gun restriction, got caught at it, and tried to cover it up!

So, "ill advised" is good enough? Thats lame-Oh. Have some guts and call it WRONG-O.