ATF's Operation Gunrunner is responsible for Agents death. Guns from gun stores allowed to cross border are found to have been involved in the deaths of multiple US federal agents. CBS news and NRA News have been reporting on this, but few others in the news media have, with the exception of Laura Ingraham.
What exactly is happening with the ATF? Are they just incompetent, or does it go deeper than that. Perhaps they want the gun violence in Mexico to increase, thereby giving then even more reason to exist. And I guess if the guns are traced back to the United States, then it is even better for them. But wait, they made a miscalculation, they forgot that if the guns were traced back as the ones that they let be sold and cross the border, then there would be a backlash against them. But I guess they never thought that far ahead.
I'm not saying that this is the case, but one never knows. I trust the ATF about as far as I can throw them. There was a prominent talk show host back in the 90's who used to say on the air that if an ATF agent broke into your house in the middle of the night, that you should shot that agent in the head. The reason was because they wear bullet resistant vests. Some would call that hate speech, but not me. I would just call it good advice on how to kill someone who is breaking into your home. However, I am not advocating such actions, and the reason is because we are now living in a new age of civility brought on by the great community organizer himself. So let us all live in peace; that is if you're north of the Mexican border and not a victim of gunning running by the U.S. ATF.
jbranstetter04
ATF begins spin in wake of devastating press reports
Now that CBS News has delivered its second definitive report on the scope of "Project Gunwalker"* and Senator Grassley has expressed his determination to not allow the Department of Justice to stonewall his investigations, the damage control at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have begun in earnest.
This just hit minutes ago. Panic and chaos are taking place at ATF headquarters in advance of the anticipated media releases today and tomorrow. Below is a message just sent from the subordinate of Jim McDermond from the ATF Office of Public and Governmental Affairs. An emergency request is being issued to all ATF Public Information Officers to find ATF stories with a positive spin to counter-influence was is expected today. Very insulting and very much the character of ATF management. Please respond to me that you received this. I think it will be critical to your stories and for Senator Grassley to further see demonstrated ATF's continued desire to spin and cover up.
Here is the internal communication that was forwarded: Public Information Officers: Please make every effort for the next two weeks to maximize coverage of ATF operations/enforcement actions/arrests at the local and regional level. Given the negative coverage by CBS Evening News last week and upcoming events this week, the bureau should look for every opportunity to push coverage of good stories. Fortunately, the CBS story has not sparked any follow up coverage by mainstream media and seems to have fizzled. It was shoddy reporting , as CBS failed to air on-the-record interviews by former ATF officials and HQ statements for attribution that expressed opposing views and explained the law and difficulties of firearm trafficking investigations. The CBS producer for the story made only a feigned effort at the 11th hour to reach ATF HQ for comment. This week (To 3/1/2011), Attorney General Holder testifies on the Hill and likely will get questions about the allegations in the story. Also (The 3/3/2011), Mexico President Calderon will visit the White House and likely will testify on the Hill. He will probably draw attention to the lack of political support for demand letter 3 and Project Gunrunner. ATF needs to proactively push positive stories this week, in an effort to preempt some negative reporting, or at minimum, lessen the coverage of such stories in the news cycle by replacing them with good stories about ATF. The more time we spend highlighting the great work of the agents through press releases and various media outreaches in the coming days and weeks, the better off we will be. Thanks for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any significant operations that should get national media coverage, please reach out to the Public Affairs Division for support, coordination and clearance. Thank you, Scot L. Thomasson Chief - ATF Public Affairs Division Washington, DC Desk 202-648-7089 Cell 206-730-0005
Read the rest here: http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/atf-begins-spin-wake-of-devast...
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ATF Investigation - Fast and Furiousby PushBackNow1,237 views
@jibranstetter04 "Project Gunrunner was created during the Bush Administration to stop straw purchases of guns headed to Mexico"....... BULL SHIT!!! Bush is just as guilty...please stop being a schmuck...
spacegasp 3 months ago
@spacegasp No, Bush is not guilty at all. No guns walked to Mexico during the Bush Administration. Their legal advisers told them that not only would it be illegal to do it, but that it would be immoral. Then the Obama Administration reversed all of that and let guns go to Mexico. For what reason, we can only surmise.
jbranstetter04 3 months ago
It's important to understand the difference between "Project Gunrunner" and "Fast and furious", or otherwise known as "Project Gunwalker".
Project Gunrunner was created during the Bush Administration to stop straw purchases of guns headed to Mexico.
Fast and furious was started during the Obama Administration. What it did was to allow the straw purchased guns to "walk" to Mexico. The guns would then be tracked; that didn't work out very well. US agents were instead killed with the guns.
jbranstetter04 7 months ago