UPDATED: Who said it?
UPDATED: Who said it?
Fast and Furious is a horrific scandal. The public deserves answers as to who devised the operation and what they hoped to accomplish. But the theory that Fast and Furious was devised to promote gun control goes far beyond the evidence, as Issa basically admitted to ABC this weekend, and it does not withstand scrutiny. The chairman should be ashamed to have dabbled in it, and should fully retract his initial comment, unless he has a considerable amount of evidence he has not shared with the public.
Answer to come -- please do not Ask Jeeves.
UPDATE: It was the good people at the staunchly conservative, William F. Buckley-founded National Review.
Meanwhile, here is the truth about the Fast and Furious scandal, contained in an article in that ultra left-wing rag* Fortune magazine which is called, bizarrely enough, "The Truth about the Fast and Furious Scandal":
Indeed, a six-month Fortune investigation reveals that the public case alleging that Voth and his colleagues walked guns is replete with distortions, errors, partial truths, and even some outright lies. Fortune reviewed more than 2,000 pages of confidential ATF documents and interviewed 39 people, including seven law-enforcement agents with direct knowledge of the case. Several, including Voth, are speaking out for the first time.
How Fast and Furious reached the headlines is a strange and unsettling saga, one that reveals a lot about politics and media today. It's a story that starts with a grudge, specifically Dodson's anger at Voth. After the terrible murder of agent Terry, Dodson made complaints that were then amplified, first by right-wing bloggers, then by CBS. Rep. Issa and other politicians then seized those elements to score points against the Obama administration, which, for its part, has capitulated in an apparent effort to avoid a rhetorical battle over gun control in the run-up to the presidential election.
Worse than a guy who got 3,000 people killed despite having a memo titled: "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside US?"— mick-of-the-moment- Dopes like Rufus think Obama is the worst ever yet he voted for Bush twice. What's the GOP motto?
Dopes, no change!— The Fundamentals of the Economy are Fine - Transparency?— FletcherT
- Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama
George W. Bush, John McCain, Sarah Palin
--Can you honestly say that the second line is a better set of candidates than the first without laughing and if you are not Rush after he has had his pills?— mick-of-the-moment - Was it a member of the Miami Heats?— Mr. Smith
- "Worse than a guy who got 3,000 people killed despite having a memo titled: "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside US?"
You mean Bill Clinton despite the fact that in 2000 those who were responsible for the 3000 killings were inside the US practicing on a daily basis to fly planes into buildings while Clinton was chasing 6 year olds from Cuba?? LOL!!
"Mohamed Atta, along with others of the alleged 9/11 hijackers, is believed to have resided in Punta Gorda, Florida before July 2000 (see Before July 2000), prior to his attending flight school in Venice, about 30 miles north of there"
The title of your memo is meaningless based on the TRUTH. Bubba had no idea of what was happening. Your Libby Bush hating ignorance continues to prove your stupidity!! But ...I understand, you have nothing else! LOL!!!— sarah89 - I always like this deflection back to Clinton. If that is true and Clinton should have done more to combat AQ, then Bush is even more incompetent because didn't do ANYTHING for the first nine months of his presidency.
Dopes, no change!— The Fundamentals of the Economy are Fine - Will's more concerned about the motives for the investigation than the motives behind the operation itself. When you claim executive privilege it sure looks like you're covering slump something.— RG
- @Rufus, at least with biden the whole world will be laughing with us instead of laughing at us.— junethe4th
- @sarah89--Have you checked out the Iraqi constitution? You know the one that you claim does not have an official religion or Islam as its source of law. Isn't great to know that we fought, died and spent to build such a country under the leadership of "w." Such a great leader. He sent his Sec. of State to the UN to make a fool of himself, disbanded the Bin Laden unit and YES had a memo titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside US." Still waiting for that Iraqi constitution answer. You won't find it listening to Rush, you have to actually read--something our last pres. had a bit of trouble with.— mick-of-the-moment
- Never mind Will, you're dealing with the FOX "news" crowd, their brains and ability to think critically were turned to mush a long time ago. BAAHH!! BAAAHHH!!!— BillHicksLives!
- That Fortune article is an excellent history of what happened in the Fast & Furious operation. Specifically how the ATF team was hamstrung by Arizona prosecutors. Also how agent Dodson was an accident waiting to happen. I always enjoy checking in on these comments to see if anyone ever takes time away from venting their generalized toxic spleen to actually discuss the topic at hand by displaying any knowledge of it. Any at all. And no, most of the time they don't.— demit
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