Operation Fast and Furious was carried out by government employees under the supervision of the Department of Justice. Fast and Furious involved US government agents arranging for buyers for the Mexican drug cartels to purchase assault rifles in the USA supposedly so that the weapons could be traced to Mexico. Of course, once the weapons were purchased, they were not traced anywhere. Instead, some 1500 or so ended up with the cartels and scores of people were killed or wounded with them (including a US border control agent). As the investigation into this mess has proceeded, the Department of Justice has lied to Congress about what happened, Eric Holder has denied knowledge of the operation even though president Obama said that he had discussed the operation with Holder, and sernior officials in DOJ have been made to look like fools. Today, however, we learned that things can still get worse. The New York Times is reporting that DOJ not only arranged for guns to be sold to the drug cartels, DOJ also had agents who laundered money for the cartels for years supposedly in order to see how the process worked. So the US government under Obama got the cartels weapons and then laundered their money. What will be next? Will we soon learn that DOJ recruited pushers to sell drugs in American cities? Did Holder arrange for crack houses in poor neighborhoods just to see how that process worked? Maybe DOJ was bringing in underage women and forcing them into prostitution -- it is important to see how that works too, right?
The real truth is that something is way off base at the Department of Justice. Someone there had to realize that it is not wise to carry out criminal activities for years just in order to study how they work. Holder should be fired. Let me say that again: Eric Holder, the US Attorney General should be fired!!
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