This morning bloggers who have written extensively on the 'Project Gunwalker' scandal--also known as 'Operation Fast and Furious'--had an email waiting for them from U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa, R-California, inviting them to participate in a conference call on the investigation into the scandal. In issuing the invitation, Issa went around the mainstream media, discarding them in fact, in order to go directly to the ones who have faithfully investigated and reported the facts concerning this case.
Issa's decision marks a watershed event, signaling that the era of big media domination of the news is over.
Although Issa did not say so directly, the news conference with bloggers is symbolic of deep frustration. The mainstream media's handling of the scandal has been less than thorough to say the least. Most have ignored it outright. The rest have treated the story as a minor occurrence during which 'a sting operation went awry due to the misguided actions of rogue ATF agents.'
End of story.
However, that is clearly not the story. The story is about an attack on the rights of American citizens by a rogue Administration that deliberately skewed the statistics on U.S. guns in Mexico so that it could justify itself in calling for draconian new gun control laws and gun bans. And then when honest and conscientious ATF agents blew the whistle on the scheme, the Administration took great effort to cover it up.
Issa, thus, decided to bypass the mainstream media that has been derelict in its duty in order to go directly to those who are doing the work of true journalists--the bloggers and writers who are not part of the established media complex.
Among those who participated in Issa's news conference via phone were Mike Vanderboegh, David Codrea, Dave Workman, Bob Owens, and Katie Pavlich.
The Pavlich account of the call includes a statement from Issa indicating that the Mexican Attorney-General has confirmed that 200 Mexican citizens have been murdered with guns the Obama Administration walked across the border and placed into the hands of drug cartels. Eleven crimes within the United States have been committed with these guns. And of the 2500 guns the Administration walked across the border, only 600 have been recovered.
Vanderboegh noted this exchange he had with Issa:
I asked: about FBI complicity in Gunwalker. "Given that we now know about FBI paid informants further up the cartel chain and a third gun that 'disappeared' from the Terry murder scene indicating the FBI is covering up the true circumstances of his death, when will we see Robert Mueller and his apparently-complicit minions under oath?" Issa indicated that he thought the third weapon disappeared because "people were panicking." He added later, "The smoking gun is the gun that killed Brian Terry."
Asked about Janet Napolitano's knowledge of Gunwalker, Issa cracked that in Janet's DHS, "Freedom of information is an oxymoron." He indicated that they would continue to ask questions to get as far up the chain as possible.
Asked about the overall purpose of Gunwalker, he demurred on agreeing outright with the "conspiracy against the Second Amendment" theory which sources say was the entire point of the larger exercise, but said:
"The administration wanted to show that guns found in Mexico came from the United States."
Issa further stated that he did not wish to appoint a special prosecutor just yet due to the ongoing investigation, which has expanded far beyond what anyone had imagined when the scandal first came to light.
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