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Thread #142888   Message #3366210
Posted By: beardedbruce
21-Jun-12 - 10:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: Operation Fast and Furious
Subject: RE: BS: Operation Fast and Furious
Bobert,

YOU state:"Let's lay this thing in terms of reality...

"Fast and Furious" was turned over to Obama from the Bush administration...

Anyone want to debate that???

Great, I didn't think so..."



I wish to debate it. This is another "Bobert Fact", like more Palestinain refugees than the total population of Palestine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fast_and_Furious

2009–2011: Operation Fast and Furious
On October 26, 2009, a teleconference was held at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. to discuss U.S. strategy for combating Mexican drug cartels. Participating in the meeting were Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer, ATF Director Kenneth E. Melson, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Michele Leonhart, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Robert Mueller and the top federal prosecutors in the Southwestern border states. They decided on a strategy to identify and eliminate entire arms trafficking networks rather than low-level buyers.[3][28][29] Those at the meeting did not suggest using the "gunwalking" tactic, but ATF supervisors would soon use it in an attempt to achieve the desired goals.[30] The effort, beginning in November, would come to be called Operation Fast and Furious for the successful film franchise, because some of the suspects under investigation operated out of an auto repair store and street raced.[3]
The strategy of targeting high-level individuals, which was already ATF policy, would be implemented by Bill Newell, special agent in charge of ATF's Phoenix field division. In order to accomplish it, the office decided to use "gunwalking" as laid out in a January 2010 briefing paper. This was said to be allowed under ATF regulations and given legal backing by U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona Dennis K. Burke. It was additionally approved and funded by a Justice Department task force.[3] However, long-standing DOJ and ATF policy has required arms shipments to be intercepted.[4][5]
In November 2009, the Phoenix office's Group VII, which would be the lead investigative group in Fast and Furious, began to follow a prolific gun trafficker. He had bought 34 firearms in 24 days, and he and his associates bought 212 more in the next month. The case soon grew to over two dozen straw purchasers, the most prolific of which would ultimately buy more than 600 weapons.[3][5][31]
The tactic of letting guns walk, rather than interdicting them and arresting the buyers, led to controversy within the ATF.[5][32] As the case continued, several members of Group VII, including John Dodson and Olindo Casa, became increasingly upset at the tactic of allowing guns to walk. Their standard Project Gunrunner training was to follow the straw purchasers to the hand-off to the cartel buyers, then arrest both parties and seize the guns. They watched guns being bought illegally and stashed on a daily basis, while their supervisors, including David Voth and Hope MacAllister, prevented the agents from intervening.[3]


Or are YOU claiming Bush was still President in Oct, 2009? Shall I quote this as proof that Obama is NOT the president, since YOU deny it?



I think calling those who disagree with you "hypocritical liars" when YOU fail to tell the truth and demonstrate hypocrisy in regards to your statements about what others believe to be an example of the pot calling the kettle black.

You have consistently made claims about other people while demonstrating those same characteristics in your own postings. Yet when others act as you have THEY need mental treatments.

Please look back at your claimed expertise, and tell me what that type of behavior is diagnosed as.