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Re: Fast and Furious: ATF Trafficking Guns to Drug Cartels
Old 06-21-2012, 03:46 PM   #1
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Well, this story certainly hit the fan this week, didn't it? President Obama exercises his executive privilege to hide DOJ documents. Executive privilege is usually only exercised to protect national security, not domestic matters, or a "principled stand for executive branch independence" (Really?)

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2...-a-126929.html

None of this makes sense:

1) Why did Pres. Obama make a mountain out of a mole hill? No one was really covering this, but now it's huge news, and it makes Pres. Obama and AG Holder look like they're hiding something serious.

2) Why did Holder tell Congress he was going to release documents when he really was requesting the President exercise executive privilege to hide them? Holder has been a complete embarrassment during this entire process.

3) Most importantly, what was the purpose of running guns to Mexican Drug Cartels? I know they say they wanted to "track them", but to what end? Were they setting up a sting? Planning a raid? Why would the DOJ knowingly send assault weapons down to these violent people? If you give killers guns, you can expect them to use them to kill, and they killed over 200 people with them! The DOJ believes tracking guns is worth being an accomplice to murder? What kind of return were they expecting on their horrific investment?

Again, nothing in this mess makes any sense, and over 200 people are dead because of it. If anyone can shed any light, please do so, because the more this goes on the more it has Watergate written all over it (Hell, Nixon only helped cover up a B&E, not being a party to murder).
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Re: Fast and Furious: ATF Trafficking Guns to Drug Cartels
Old 06-21-2012, 05:17 PM   #2
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Another question to ask: How can the President/White House claim privilege over the information if the White House wasn't involved in some way?
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Old 06-21-2012, 09:24 PM   #3
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If you give killers guns, you can expect them to use them to kill, and they killed over 200 people with them!
Wow, only 200 people? I think more people get shot in the US in a day than that.
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Old 06-21-2012, 11:13 PM   #4
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Wow, only 200 people? I think more people get shot in the US in a day than that.
I have no idea, but the US Department of Justice doesn't usually hand out the guns. That's pretty important...

Also, there are over 200 that we know about. Probably many more. Mexico doesn't have a very good record of giving a shit about things like this.
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