by Bob Owens So far, the shuffling of employees–and some might argue, the buying of their silence–has been the only reaction to the Gunwalker scandal, in which various agencies of the federal government conspired to assure the success of straw purchasers and smugglers running guns to a violent Mexican drug cartel.
In the months since the scandal was revealed, the Department of Justice (DOJ) , BATF, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Internal Revenue Service Criminal Division (IRS-CD), Department of Homeland Security, and Department of State, have conspired to stonewall and House and Senate investigations that have been launched to investigate a scandal that appears to be worse than Iran-Contra and Watergate combined.
The scandal is not complicated, and would be revealed by the answering of five simple questions that the media dare not demand answers to from this Administration.
- Who came up with the idea of allowing guns to be purchased by straw purchasers and then “walked” across the border by smugglers?
- Who authorized Operation Fast and Furious in the Department of Justice?
- Who authorized Operation Fast and Furious in the Department of Homeland Security?
- Is Operation Fast and Furious the only operation of its type, or were there similar operations in Texas, Florida, and other states as evidence suggests?
- What, precisely, did Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and Janet Napolitano know about Operation Fast and Furious, and when did they know it?
Answering these five simple questions would go a long way towards revealing if Operation Fast and Furious was merely the most inept and bloody law enforcement operation in modern American history, or if it was–as logic and circumstantial evidence suggests–a criminal conspiracy intent on manufacturing evidence to justify gun control initiatives and further the Administration’s political agenda at the cost of Mexican and American lives.
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