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Obama, Holder Busted in Gunwalker Cover-up

Roger Hedgecock

07/22/2011

Kenneth Melson was supposed to be the fall guy, the sacrificial lamb, the guy thrown under the bus to protect President Obama. Melson was "expected" to resign. He refused.


Instead, Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has turned whistle-blower and all hell is about to explode over the operation dubbed by Obama's Justice Department "Fast and Furious" but now known as the Gunwalker scandal.

It looks like the Obama regime financed (partly with "stimulus" funds) an $80 million program to allow straw buyers to purchase hundreds of weapons from federally licensed gun shops in Southwest states, over the objection of the shop owners, and then allowed these weapons to "walk" across the Mexican border into the waiting arms of the murderous Mexican drug cartels.

At first, Justice Department spokesmen said it was a "sting gone wrong." Then, when many pointed out that the ATF had no jurisdiction to follow the guns across the border to make arrests, the cover story fell apart.

Melson has told congressional investigators that there is a "smoking gun" internal memo withheld from Congress indicating that "political appointees" (Obama's) in the Justice Department were involved. This memo and other documents are being withheld from Congress as part of a cover-up.

Melson has also told Congressional investigators that affidavits prepared by Justice Department lawyers to support wiretaps in the operation were "inconsistent" with public statements by Justice Department officials, meaning that the operation, it's existence at first denied by the Justice Department, was detailed months before to a court in sworn statements by the same Justice Department.

Attorney General Eric Holder testified at a congressional hearing in March 2011 that he had just learned of the Fast and Furious operation "a few weeks ago." However, Holder spoke at a joint Mexico-U.S. law enforcement conference in Mexico in April 2009, describing the operation and touting it as a way to combat the growing power of the Mexican drug cartels.


The explosive revelations continued. Melson told the investigators that during operation Fast and Furious, guns were bought by and sold to individuals connected with the Mexican cartels who were also paid informants for the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration. American taxpayers are funding all sides of this war.

When the Mexican government captured the third-ranking leader of the Los Zetas cartel, Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar , he bragged that the cartel's guns were bought in the U.S. and that all the cartels were buying guns from the U.S. government.

The Mexicans are furious about all this. The Mexican congress has opened an investigation under the assumption that Obama's operation was an act of war on Mexico. More than 200 Mexican law enforcement and military personnel have been killed in the last year by guns traced back to Gunwalker.

These guns, traced by serial number, have tragically also turned up at the scene of the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata by cartel gunmen.

The Mexican cartels get weapons from Mexican Army deserters, from leftist guerrilla groups in South America, and from international gun smugglers. Under Obama, they also got weapons from U.S. gun shops. We now know how this was done, in a story first told by CBS News. The question is why?

The answer fits a pattern described by then-Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel of never letting a crisis go to waste if it can advance the agenda.

The crisis was the civil war between the Mexican government and the drug cartels, with violence spilling over into American cities. Obama, Janet Napolitano , and even Hillary Clinton, blamed this border violence on the easy availability of guns in U.S. gun shops and gun shows along the border. The agenda was gun control. Gun control laws needed to be strengthened to protect the lives of innocent Mexicans and Americans.

When statistics designed to show the cartels were armed primarily from American sources were proven false, the crisis had to be goosed a little. Operation Fast and Furious became the funnel for a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Despite all these revelations of Obama regime complicity in this gunrunning operation, the gun control agenda lives on.

Just last Monday, the Justice Department announced that all gun shops in four Southwest states will have to report to the ATF purchases of two or more of some types of rifles by the same person in a five-day span. With a straight face, a Justice Department spokesman described this as an effort to stem the illicit flow of weapons into Mexico.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R.-Tex.) called this new requirement the "height of hypocrisy ... when the administration knowingly and intentionally allowed guns to be trafficked into Mexico." Smith concluded, "Limiting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens is not going to solve the problem." Thank you Congressman Smith.

Congratulations Ken Melson. Thank you for telling the truth. Without you, the American people might believe that more gun control is the answer. With your statements, we now know that controlling the corruption of the Justice Department is the answer.

Isn't it time someone asked the age-old question, "What did the President know, and when did he know it?"

Editor's note: For the latest in the Gunwalker investigation, make sure to listen to Roger Hedgecock's interview with
Rep. Darrell Issa on his upcoming hearings!

White House Staffer Knew About Gun Running Operation Last Fall
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
By Fred Lucas


Washington (CNSNews.com) – At least one person in the White House knew about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gun-running operation three months before weapons from the botched sting were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

That’s what a high-ranking ATF official told Congress on Tuesday.

William Newell, the former ATF special agent in charge of the Phoenix field office, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that he communicated with Kevin O'Reilly, a staffer on President Obama’s National Security Council, about Operation Fast and Furious in September 2010.

By that time, at least one thousand guns straw-purchased in the U.S. had been transferred to Mexican criminals under the noses of ATF officials who intended, but failed, to track them to see where they’d end up.

Under Operation Fast and Furious, which began in September 2009, the ATF allowed some 2,000 guns to “walkâ€

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ATF Accused in Congressional Report of 'Arming' Cartel for 'War' Through Operation Fast and Furious
Aug 06, 2011
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07 ... =obnetwork
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-246048-.html


America's Third War: The U.S. Cut a Deal With the Sinaloa Cartel, Say Court Documents

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/05/am ... z1UGH6TWTL
Second article. at:
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-246048-.html

The DEA Admits It Had A Hand In Fast And Furious Gun Smuggling Operation
http://www.alipac.us/ftopic-246215-0-da ... rasc-.html

Business Insider 2011-08-08: The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration has admitted that the agency knew about and played a role in "Operation Fast and Furious," a botched gunrunning program that allowed more than 2,000 firearms to "walk" across the border into Mexico. In a letter to the House Committee on Oversight, obtained by the LA Times, DEA administrator Michele Leonhart wrote that DEA... more »

Many links here:

http://article.wn.com/view/2011/08/08/T ... n_Smuggli/

Here's everything you need to know about Fast and Furious > http://www.businessinsider.com/operatio ... 1-7?page=1

ATF Agent Shared Fast & Furious Info with White House

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-246334.html

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VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCODft0Usgo

More Details from hearing by House Oversight Committee on ATF operation Fast & Furious resulting in The Deaths Of Agents Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata with ATF Guns allowed to walk to Drug Cartel Members.

We can surmise that other murders on both sides of the US/Mexican border have resulted with the 2500 weapons allowed to cross into Mexico.

And to think...the Current Administration tried to pass the blame on US citizens to put in place more bans and restrictions on Law Abiding Citizens 2nd Amendment rights...under the cover of a program to catch Drug Cartel members gone horribly bad.

Obama,Holder,Hillary Clinton you may remember..make speeches talking about illegal guns crossing the border...only to now realize it was the ATF who allowed the guns to cross into Mexico.

They tried very hard to enact more gun laws by directing attention to US guns falling into Mexican hands from the USA to cause a outcry from the people for more 2nd Amendment restrictions,bans etc.

Well, it backfired and people died! See Links below for more Details! Make up your own mind. Peace!

The DOJ Operation Fast and Furious: Fueling Cartel Violence

http://oversight.house.gov/images/stori ... _FINAL.pdf

BATF Admits That “Guns Walkedâ€

Holder and Clinton should face criminal charges and removal from office, at a minimum! The WH knew about this and they're running for cover. The truth needs to be revealed and these criminals in our government need to be held accountable!

U.S. Attorney’s Office to Family of Fallen Border Agent Brian Terry: Thanks but No Thanks
Aug 12, 2011
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http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-1254546.html#1254546

August 4th 2011

Alex Jones - US Government Protected Sinaloa Drug "Cartel"!
http://www.alipac.us/ftopic-247044-0-da ... rasc-.html

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Firearms from ATF's Fast and Furious found U.S. crime scenes
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The Los Angeles Times is reporting today that guns purchased as part of the federal government's "Operation Fast and Furious" have been found at the scene of 11 more violent crimes. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... 2514.story