Post by subdjoe on Apr 17, 2011 12:28:12 GMT -5
www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=42987
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Since at least one of the guns sold under Obamas orders has been used to murder a federal agent, Obama and Holder need to be charged as accessories to murder.
If something half this bad had happened under Pres. Bush the libs would have been screaming for dozens of investigations and special prosecutors, and demanding impeachment. Now all we have is deafening silence.
grassley.senate.gov/news/Article.cfm?customel_dataPageID_1502=33847
Following this email, the ATF arranged a meeting between the FFL and the U.S. Attorney’s office. According to the FFL, the U.S. Attorney’s office scheduled a follow-up meeting with the FFL, but asked that the FFL’s attorney not be present.[3]
Why the hell would the government "ask" (order) that the FFLs attorney not be present unless it was trying to hide something?
At the meeting on May 13, 2010, the U.S. Attorney’s office declined to provide anything in writing but assured the gun dealer in even stronger terms that there were safeguards in place to prevent further distribution of the weapons after being purchased from his business.[4] As we now know, those assurances proved to be untrue. On June 17, 2010, the gun dealer wrote to the ATF to again express concerns after seeing a report on Fox News about firearms and the border:
The segment, if the information was correct, is disturbing to me. When you, [the Assistant U.S. Attorney], and I met on May 13th, I shared my concerns with you guys that I wanted to make sure that none of the firearms that were sold per our conversation with you and various ATF agents could or would ever end up south of the border or in the hands of the bad guys. … I want to help ATF with its investigation but not at the risk of agents’ safety because I have some very close friends that are U.S. Border Patrol agents in southern AZ[.][5]
Incredibly, the FFL sent this email six months before guns from the same ATF operation were found at the scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder. So, not only were the ATF agents who later blew the whistle predicting that this operation would end in tragedy, so were the gun dealers—even as ATF urged them to make the sales.
Furthermore, according to the FFL, there were “one or two” occasions on which his employees actually witnessed and recorded with surveillance cameras an exchange of money between the straw purchaser and another individual on the premises.[6] Despite this actual knowledge of a straw purchase, the dealer said ATF officials wanted him to proceed with the transaction.[7] However, his employees refused to process the sale.[8]
In light of this new evidence, the Justice Department’s claim that the ATF never knowingly sanctioned or allowed the sale of assault weapons to straw purchasers is simply not credible. As you know, I have multiple document and information requests pending with various components of the Justice Department. Unfortunately, however, it appears that senior Department officials are not allowing the components to respond fully and directly.
Why the hell would the government "ask" (order) that the FFLs attorney not be present unless it was trying to hide something?
At the meeting on May 13, 2010, the U.S. Attorney’s office declined to provide anything in writing but assured the gun dealer in even stronger terms that there were safeguards in place to prevent further distribution of the weapons after being purchased from his business.[4] As we now know, those assurances proved to be untrue. On June 17, 2010, the gun dealer wrote to the ATF to again express concerns after seeing a report on Fox News about firearms and the border:
The segment, if the information was correct, is disturbing to me. When you, [the Assistant U.S. Attorney], and I met on May 13th, I shared my concerns with you guys that I wanted to make sure that none of the firearms that were sold per our conversation with you and various ATF agents could or would ever end up south of the border or in the hands of the bad guys. … I want to help ATF with its investigation but not at the risk of agents’ safety because I have some very close friends that are U.S. Border Patrol agents in southern AZ[.][5]
Incredibly, the FFL sent this email six months before guns from the same ATF operation were found at the scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder. So, not only were the ATF agents who later blew the whistle predicting that this operation would end in tragedy, so were the gun dealers—even as ATF urged them to make the sales.
Furthermore, according to the FFL, there were “one or two” occasions on which his employees actually witnessed and recorded with surveillance cameras an exchange of money between the straw purchaser and another individual on the premises.[6] Despite this actual knowledge of a straw purchase, the dealer said ATF officials wanted him to proceed with the transaction.[7] However, his employees refused to process the sale.[8]
In light of this new evidence, the Justice Department’s claim that the ATF never knowingly sanctioned or allowed the sale of assault weapons to straw purchasers is simply not credible. As you know, I have multiple document and information requests pending with various components of the Justice Department. Unfortunately, however, it appears that senior Department officials are not allowing the components to respond fully and directly.
Since at least one of the guns sold under Obamas orders has been used to murder a federal agent, Obama and Holder need to be charged as accessories to murder.
If something half this bad had happened under Pres. Bush the libs would have been screaming for dozens of investigations and special prosecutors, and demanding impeachment. Now all we have is deafening silence.