Perhaps you’ll recall my old tinfoil-hatted comments wherein I wouldn’t dismiss the possibility that Fast & Furious was partially designed to line somebody’s pockets. Well, this isn’t quite it; and I don’t give this article’s allegation much credibility, yet; but it keeps the door open to explanations other than simple incompetence or propaganda undermining the Second-Amendment, vile as those motivations may be.
A high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative currently in U.S. custody is making startling allegations that the failed federal gun-walking operation known as “Fast and Furious” isn’t what you think it is.
It wasn’t about tracking guns, it was about supplying them — all part of an elaborate agreement between the U.S. government and Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa Cartel to take down rival cartels. [much more]
It also opens the possibility of a really, really ugly Chicago story.
No, I mean really ugly.
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Well, unlike Harry Reid and his obvious lies, I actually don’t know whether this allegation is true or not.
And it’s certainly a reach (or maybe not). And the source is certainly not a tower of truth or integrity.
But unfortunately it has the kind of ring of some jackassaries of the past. You know, where certain people in our government get the notion that they can play God and manipulate various factions against each other, regardless of how many laws get broken and how many innocent lives get ruined in the process.
Generally, these efforts ended badly. At least the ones we know about.
…. so, I wouldn’t dismiss this out of hand. Methinks more congressional investigations are in order, at least until we get a new administration with a house-cleaning agenda, and new management at DoJ that’s interested in prosecuting real crimes — even if committed by their own….
… and rarely has any matter screamed as much for an independent special prosecutor as this one.
And I really, really hope that Romney isn’t one of these useless “Oh, let’s just let Democrat bygones be bygones” RINOs.
Gee, I wonder which “outfit” in Cheek-a-go is distributing the cartel’s wares?…
Tell you what! Not even the Geico lizard, nay, Lloyd`s of London would insure the lives of the lawyers, judge, jury, court recorder, witnesses and the fat little old lady who makes the coffee——-in this fucking trial! (…makes Al Capone look like a pickpocket…..)
I might say that Chicago kids who get shot every 45 seconds/24-7 could lend credibility to this guy`s claim that the city was allowed to be the *Cosco Mary Jane Store*……for Mexico…
IRON: Trial starts in October——-erm——ain`t that like bow and arrow range to November`s
massacreelection?Sitting in a waiting room today, I read an article about Whitey Bulger and the tangled web of conspiracy involving him, his criminal associates, the FBI, the Justice Dept. and Boston politics.
I read that among other things, the so-called good guys conspired to get two innocent men convicted of murder in order to protect two Mob informants, and are now orchestrating Bulger’s trial to cover up the decades of misdeeds of the Justice Department in this case. Add on the Fast and Furious stonewalling, the New Black Panthers, Clinton and Uhbama’s foreign election contributions, and the recent leaks of highly sensitive national security information without any serious investigation, I no longer have any faith in that branch of government. It’s one thing to let a couple mobsters run numbers in order to bust Mob biggies, but to actively frame innocents for murder is beyond the pale. A major purge is long overdue.
Yeah, I think the “benefit of the doubt” was burned down to ashes and dissolved in nitric acid.
If only we had some large independent, private groups that would investigate things like this and inform the public of what they found.
I don’t know what you’d call that, I was thinking “reporters,” but that name is already taken by something completely different.
Verry Verry Interrresting— I know those from Cheeecago love to farm in northern Wisconsin and Michigan.
dick, Merovign
Good point about the independent investigation thing.
I’ve always thought that there’s one branch of gov’t that the Constitution overlooked: the Investigation of Government Unconstitutionality, Corruption, Mal/Misfeasance, Treason, Waste & Abuse Branch.
It would have DoJ/FBI-like power of investigation, but it would be limited to investigating FedGov organizations, officers, and employees.
Yeah, or the press could do its job.
Kind’a the reason for their inclusion in the First Amendment, wunnit?
Los Pollos Hermanos?
^ PeggyU (8) – How about “Los mentir pollos racistas hermanos”
dick (4): A major purge is long overdue. no shit!
One of the things I disliked most about the W. Bush presidency was his apparent lack of interest in purging various branches of government. DoJ was one example; the CIA was another. He never seemed to grasp the fact that the CIA (or at least the Clinton era hires in it) was waging a covert war against his administration.
Doug (7): Now there’s a plan. And the head of that branch of government should be elected directly by the people, not appointed by the president. Isn’t the Attorney General of most states elected independently of the state’s governor? Results with Attorneys General are far from ideal, but an independent branch of government that investigates criminal activity (and negligence) in the others might still be an improvement over what we have now.