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In Topic: Any Comments?

18 February 2013 - 08:45 AM

Hmmm. Did I miss the part about walking on water and turning water into wine?

(Feb. 22, 2013. Another Hmmmm. It seems all the supporting information by "Fedupwrkr" about SSA Ortiz's previous supervisor has now disappeared....)

In Topic: FULL and IMMEDIATE Congressional Hearings are REQUIRED

19 December 2012 - 02:17 PM

The plot thickens....

Two of the weapons involved in a drug cartel gunfight last month in Sinaloa, Mexico, that killed five people, including two soldiers and a young beauty queen, have been traced back to the U.S. – one lost during the ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious, the other originally purchased by a supervisory ATF agent who helped oversee the botched gun-tracking operation.

The discovery of the two firearms – an AK-47 assault rifle and a 5.7 mm. pistol – provides new evidence that the nearly 2,000 weapons lost under Fast and Furious, and others, continue to flow freely across the U.S.-Mexico border and probably will be turning up at violent crime scenes for years to come.

The purchase by the supervisory agent, George Gillett of ATF's Phoenix field office, is now under review by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General’s Office, which earlier this year found major systemic problems with both ATF agents and supervisors for Fast and Furious, sources said.

In a brief interview Wednesday, Gillett declined to discuss why he purchased the FN Herstal pistol in January 2010 or how it ended up in the fatal shooting in Mexico. When he bought the pistol, he gave his address as the Phoenix ATF field office."

See the Los Angeles Times story here.

More from CBS Investigative Reporter Sharyl Attkisson:

"Gillett has acknowledged to CBS News that it was likely his weapon, but says he sold it sometime in 2011 to someone through the Internet."

See the CBS story here.

In Topic: Fast & Furious - Billboard in Clovis, NM

28 November 2012 - 06:29 PM

"Mexican Death Toll Could Exceed 120,000 As Calderon Ends Six-Year Reign".

How many from "Fast and Furious"???????

http://truth-out.org...oll-near-120000

In Topic: DOJ Office of the Inspector General: Report re: Operation "Fast & Fur...

15 October 2012 - 07:50 AM

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
Thomas Sowell

In Topic: DOJ Office of the Inspector General: Report re: Operation "Fast & Fur...

30 September 2012 - 07:18 AM

http://abcnews.go.co...34#.UGhUeK4hQq_

The consequences of the controversial ‘Fast and Furious’ undercover operation put in place by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2009 have been deadlier than what has been
made public to date,” the network said. “The exclusive, in-depth investigation by Univision News’ award-winning Investigative Unit — Univision Investiga — has found that the guns that crossed the border as part of Operation Fast and Furious caused dozens of deaths inside Mexico.”

Among other groups of Fast and Furious victim stories Univision says it will tell in the special to air Sunday evening at 7 p.m., is one about how “16 young people attending a party in a residential area of Ciudad Juárez in January of 2010″ were gunned down with weapons the Obama administration gave to drug cartel criminals through Fast and Furious.

“Univision News’ Investigative Unit was also able to identify additional guns that escaped the control of ATF agents and were used in different types of crimes throughout Mexico,” the network added. “Furthermore, some of these guns — none of which were reported by congressional investigators — were put in the hands of drug traffickers in Honduras, Puerto Rico, and Colombia. A person familiar with the recent congressional hearings called Univision’s findings ‘the holy grail’ that Congress had been searching for.”