It can now be proved that the Obama White House and the Department of Justice, including the ATF, have engaged in an extensive cover-up of the Project Gunwalker scandal, also known as 'Operation Fast and Furious.' A series of internal emails and a memo disclosed by numerous sources yesterday, including CBS News and the Los Angeles Times, show beyond doubt that the Obama Administration is involved in an attempt to hide facts concerning the illegal scheme.
Thus, once again, it is time to zero-in on the issue that lies squarely at the center of what is perhaps the most serious scandal in the history of U.S. politics--what did Barack Obama know and when did he know it?
As with Watergate in 1974, it was not the break-in itself that brought down the Nixon White House. It was the cover-up. Nixon lied to the American people. Administration officials lied before Congress. The Attorney-General at the time perjured himself in sworn testimony before a Senate committee chaired by former Senator Sam Ervin, D-North Carolina.
Eric Holder, in sworn testimony before Congress, stated that he knew nothing about the illegal gunwalker operation, although former ATF Phoenix field division head Bill Newell testified that he informed the White House of the scheme in September of 2010. Further information indicates that Holder's claim, at the very least, is highly suspicious.
And the emails disclosed this week provide even more damning evidence against the Administration. The complete record of these emails can be found in this Scribd document.
Further, U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who is the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and is investigating the scandal, stated that given the evidence it is highly unlikely that the President knew nothing about the operation, despite his claims to the contrary.
According to Grassley,
“Presumably, people in the White House want us to think only these three people knew anything about Fast and Furious, but if they’re advisers to the president on national security, wouldn’t they be telling the president about important information in our relationship with Mexico?” Grassley said in an interview with Fox News. “Why wouldn’t they be telling other people?”
However, perhaps the most damning piece of information contained in the lastest disclosures involves the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
Despite the claims of the Administration that there is no evidence proving that the guns used to kill Terry had been walked into Mexico in the Fast and Furious operation, internal emails and memos indicate that the ATF officials involved believed exactly that.
The Phoenix field division of the ATF was quick to hide information about the guns used at the murder site. Those guns were later shown to be part of the government's illegal gun smuggling scheme during which U.S. firearms were taken across the border and placed into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
Thus, the question, if the Phoenix division of the ATF did not have information connecting the illegal Gunwalker project to the murder of Brian Terry, then why did they seek to hide the facts about the guns found at the scene?
But the CBS News article concerning the cover-up contains even more, indicating that the U.S. Attorney in Phoenix aided and abetted the attempt to hide the facts:
Congressional investigators tell CBS News there's evidence the U.S. Attorney's office in Arizona sought to cover up a link between their controversial gunwalking operation known as "Fast and Furious" and the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
Terry was murdered in Arizona near the US border last December. Two assault rifles ATF had allegedly allowed onto the street without interdiction were found at the scene.
But the US Attorney's office working both the Terry murder and the "Fast and Furious" operation did not immediately disclose the two had any link. Two Republicans investigating the scandal, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) say there's evidence that officials at ATF and the US Attorney's office sought to hide the connection.
The U.S. Attorney in Phoenix, of course, works under the Department of Justice and reports to Eric Holder.
In addition, the CBS News report shows that Phoenix Assistant U.S. Attorney Emory Hurley knew immediately that guns the ATF allowed to be placed in the hands of Mexican criminals were recovered at the Terry murder scene.
It is thus only a matter of time until U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa, R-California, appoints a special prosecutor to bring charges against those implicated. The only remaining question is how much air-tight evidence exists to directly implicate the President of the United States.
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