The Gunrunner Scandal [Update]

For weeks now I have been getting emails from two organizations that claimed that Obama was working to get more gun control done "under the table." According to one of the latest Ulsterman/White House Insider reports, the Congressional investigation by Darrell Issa that is scheduled to begin this Monday could be a very serious threat to the Obama Administration.

Newsflavor.com: The Ulsterman Report - Is Obama's Watergate Moment Coming?

Excerpt:

Congressional hearings begin on Monday pertaining to Barack Obama’s Department of Justice and its repeated refusal to give full disclosure regarding the now infamous and tragic Project Gunrunner. Attorney General Eric Holder is most certainly at great political risk – is President Obama himself far behind?

[W]hat is certain for now is the overt confidence coming from Congressman Darrell Issa. For weeks prior, Congressman Issa expressed growing frustration at the Obama administration’s refusal to comply with repeated requests to release information pertaining to the Gunrunner program. This frustration has now been replaced by a resolute determination to fully utilize the authority of Congress inherent in a Congressional hearing to bring the matter to full public disclosure via Issa’s subpoena authority as Chair of the House Government Oversight Committee. And with the issuance of those subpoenas, and the resulting scheduling of Congressional hearings on Obstruction of Justice charges against Obama’s DOJ, the battle lines have clearly been drawn. Congressman Darrell Issa is now in a full on confrontation with Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama.

“This is not a discovery process of what happened. We know what happened. We know that this Administration at the highest levels approved a process that allowed thousands of high powered weapons, basically AK-47s and M-16 look alikes, to go to the worst of the worst on both sides of the borders.”

“This was an operation approved in Washington.” -Congressman Darrell Issa

Read more: The Ulsterman Report

Take special note of these comments:

isloooboy
Posted June 9, 2011 at 2:56 am
“We know that this Administration at the highest levels approved a process that allowed thousands of high powered weapons, basically AK-47s and M-16 look alikes, to go to the worst of the worst on both sides of the borders.”

What was basic aim? or goal to achieve?

Read more: http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/the-ulsterman-report-is-obamas-watergate-moment-coming/#ixzz1OyufzfI1

Matt
Posted June 9, 2011 at 11:27 am
Isloooboy said “What was basic aim? or goal to achieve?”

Remember a little while back Obama said that they were working on gun control “under the table”? Well, this is part of that. They wanted to show US guns feeding the violence in Mexico. And use that to push for more gun regulation.

But I don’t think that will work now that people are aware of the fact that it was Obama who was sending the guns to Mexico in the first place!

Read more: http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/the-ulsterman-report-is-obamas-watergate-moment-coming/#ixzz1OyrpRzoJ

Hat Tip to The Ulsterman Report

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Update 6/13/11

More information about this scandal:

Patriot Action Network: Issa calls hearing on Justice Department possibly obstructing justice

Does anyone happen to know if this hearing was made public? On C-Span?

I saw a brief interview with Issa about this topic on the Fox News Channel this morning. When I find the video, will post it.

Don't miss this scathing article written by Michele Malkin and published over at National Review:

National Review.com: Project Gunrunner

Excerpt:

Buried in Barack Obama’s failed trillion-dollar stimulus program was a $10 million bloody border racket that has now cost American lives. This goes far beyond the usual waste, fraud and abuse underwritten by progressive profligacy. It’s bloodstained government malfeasance overseen by anti-gun ideologues — and now anti-gun ideologue Attorney General Eric Holder will “investigate.”

Welcome to Project Gunrunner. Prepare for another Justice Department whitewash.

You can read about the background information at the link, but here is the conclusion:

Project Gunrunner’s reach and authority continues to grow despite dire, prolonged warnings from insiders and whistleblowers that countless monitored guns have been passed on to violent criminals without being intercepted as planned. Following up on leads first published at www.cleanupatf.org and the blogs of gun-rights advocates David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh, CBS News reported last month that Project Gunrunner “allegedly facilitated the delivery of thousands of guns into criminal hands.”

One of those guns was used by Mexican gang thugs who murdered U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last December. At least six veteran ATF agents and executives stepped forward to expose how ATF presided over the purchase of hundreds of high-powered rifles and pistols — over the objection of the very private gun shops that the Obama administration’s anti-gun zealots have vilified.

One whistleblower familiar with Project Gunrunner’s Phoenix offshoot, dubbed “Operation Fast and Furious,” told CBS News: “The numbers are over 2,500 on that case by the way. That’s how many guns were sold — including some 50-calibers they let walk.” The weapon used in the Mexico slaying of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jaime Zapata has also been linked to Project Gunrunner surveillance operation subjects.

As investigative watchdog Republicans Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa step up pressure on the administration to come clean this week about who knew what and when, Obama denied any knowledge of Project Gunrunner on Spanish-language Univision TV. He blithely allowed that “there may be a situation here in which a serious mistake was made. If that’s the case, then we’ll find out and we’ll hold someone accountable.”

Coming from a man who appointed crime-coddling, accountability-evading, open-borders corruptocrat Eric Holder to uphold the law, that is a bloody, cruel joke.

Hat Tips:

Patriot Action Network

National Review

Obama Admin Uses "Interpersonal Deception" Methods [Update 2]

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Shep's Clueless Rant [Updates]

Here we go again. It's "blame and attack all the conservatives" time in the liberal leftist mind of Fox News anchor, Shepard Smith. Shep Smith attacks right-wing 'crazies'
Rips people questioning eligibility as being 'out there in a scary place'

Now we find out about Smith's shady past. He was arrested for shouting obscenities and intentionally ramming his car into a female reporter back in 2000!

Geez.....

Excerpt:

Smith made numerous references to a Department of Homeland Security report warning of potential violence from "right-wing extremists," and said he's been personally disturbed by an increase in e-mail to him from people "who are way out there on a limb ... out there in a scary place."

He read what he called a representative message that asked, "How dare you tell us to get over the birth certificate ... ?"


Shepard Smith's 2000 mugshot (go to link to see it)

Ironically, Smith himself allegedly engaged in activity some might deem "out there in a scary place."

As WND previously reported, during the presidential election fiasco in November 2000, Smith was arrested at the Florida Capitol for allegedly driving his Mazda Millenia into another reporter who was standing in a parking space she attempted to save for a friend. The victim, freelance journalist Maureen Walsh of Tallahassee, was hospitalized and released later the same day with bruises on her knees and legs.

The St. Petersburg Times reported Capitol Police Sgt. Edwin Maxwell said Smith drove up and "shouted some profanities at her and basically just struck her, striking her at the knees, which threw her up on the car."

According to NewsBlues, a witness to the incident said Smith "intentionally ran into her with his car to try and get her to move from the parking spot. She was thrown onto the hood of the car and ended up on the ground. Smith then parked the car, turned off the engine, turned to the crews assisting the reporter and said "f--- you" and walked into the state capital. Police and paramedics were called."

"When arrested on the street outside the capital, Smith said he couldn't understand why this was happening ... they then handcuffed him."

Smith was charged with a felony the day of the offense, but the charge was later downgraded to a misdemeanor and eventually dropped.

Two hours after Smith's TV remarks about "crazies," his network colleague Glenn Beck said of the shooting in Washington, "This is not the work of right-wing conservatives."

"This guy is a lone gunman nut job," Beck said. "I'm not stirring the pot. I am pointing out that the pot is boiling and there is trouble in America. ... Common sense tells you that there are very hateful people on the right and on the left."

The museum guard, Stephen Tyrone Johns, died in the hospital. Von Brunn, 89, was listed in critical condition.

Nationwide attention about President Obama's lack of producing a long-form birth certificate proving his eligibility for office got a boost today when top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh joked about the subject in comparing Obama to God.

Asking rhetorically what God has in common with Obama, Limbaugh said, "Neither has a birth certificate."

My suggestion? Shep - why don't you go over the MSNBC? You would fit right in with the vile lunatics reporting there - like Olberdummy.


Hat tip:

WorldNetDaily

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Update:

Related post:

Fox's Shep Smith is Stuck on Stupid Go to the site and listen to the radio broadcast about Shep's clueless rant.

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Second Update:

As we find out more about the Holocaust Museum murderer, we are finding out that he has much more in common with the liberal left hate-mongering fanatics:

Gateway Pundit: Holocaust Museum Killer Von Brunn Targeted Conservative Mag "The Weekly Standard"... (Was Registered Dem?)
Sorry Dems-- This kook killer is no conservative...

Macmind: James Von Brunn, Like Most Holocaust Deniers are From the Left not the Right

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Third Update:

Wow! At least one Rabbi via Newsmax: is willing to speak out about Obama Breeding a Climate of Hate Against Jews!

Excerpt:

Rabbi: Obama Breeds Climate of Hate Against Jews

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:12 PM

By: Rabbi Dr. Morton H. Pomerantz

Our new president did not tell a virulent anti-Semite to travel to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington to kill Jews, but he is most certainly creating a climate of hate against us.


It is no coincidence that we are witnessing this level of hatred toward Jews as President Barack Obama positions America against the Jewish state.


Just days ago Obama traveled to Cairo, Egypt. It was his second trip in a short time to visit Muslim countries. He sent a clear message by not visiting Israel.


But this was code.


In Cairo, Obama said things that pose a grave danger to Jews in Israel, in America and everywhere.


And if his views are not vigorously opposed they will help create a danger as great as that posed by the Nazis to the Jewish people.


Just last week, Obama told his worldwide audience — more than 100 million people — that the killing of six million Jews during the Holocaust was the equivalent of Israel’s actions in dealing with the Palestinians.


This remark is incredible on its face, an insult to the six million Jews who died as a result of Hitler’s genocide — and it is a form of revisionism that will bode evil for Jews for years to come.


While Obama acknowledged that “six million Jews were killed — more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today” — his discussion about the Holocaust was followed by this statement: “On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people — Muslims and Christians — have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.”


“On the other hand . . . ”?


Obama’s clever construct comparing the mass genocide of six million Jews to the Palestinian struggle will not be lost on the estimated 100 million Muslims who tuned into to hear him.


Perhaps it was not lost on James W. von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist identified as the alleged attacker Wednesday at the Holocaust Museum. He apparently felt that he could easily take retribution against the Jews for the atrocities Obama implies they are guilty of.


At first blush Mr. Obama’s speech seemed rosy, optimistic — one that espoused tolerance and understanding.


If you scratch the surface it is a dangerous document that history will view as a turning point for America and Israel — one that will lead to dangerous times ahead for both Jews and believing Christians.


The immediate danger posed by Obama’s speech is in its incredible re-writing of the history of Jews, Christians and Muslims from Medieval times to the present.


Obama, continually throughout his speech, talks of Islam’s peaceful intent. And while there are certainly Koranic verses that support this interpretation, Islam has a long and bloody history of violence against fellow Muslims, Jews and Christians.


Has Obama not heard about the Muslim’s violent conquest of the Middle East, Spain and half of Western Europe? Was he never taught that the Crusades sought to turn back this Muslim onslaught that demanded subjugated populations convert or die?


In his almost hour-long speech, there is not a single word about Islam’s well known and checkered past.

Read the rest here.

Official Obama Admin Scandals List

Via The Obama File, I discovered Conservative American: Official Obama Administration Scandals List. It's currently four pages long (with a fifth page ready to list the latest scandals)!! As of today (4/20/09) there are 196 scandals listed!!

PAGE ONE #1-50

PAGE TWO #51-100

PAGE THREE #101-#150

PAGE FOUR #151-200

PAGE FIVE #201-250

By Peter Andrew - ConservativeAmerican.org

Contains scandals, mistakes, blunders, broken promises, flip flops, gaffes, lies, etc. That’s too long of a name, so we call it the Scandals List. Okay? List in chronological order - recent items on highest page number.

Hat Tips:

The Obama File

Conservative American.org