A Journalist's Guide to 'Project Gunwalker'-Part Five

Examiner.com article character limits preclude adding more updates to the initial and subsequently-posted Journalist's Guides to Project Gunwalker. This is a continuation of updates from this column and Sipsey Street Irregulars beginning July 28, 2011 and ending September 8, 2011.  It includes contributions from regional Gun Rights Examiners.

Click here for the Part One chronology from Dec. 28, 2010 through March 8, 2011. Click here for Part Two, beginning on March 9, 2011 and ending on April 15, 2011. Click here for Part Three, beginning on April 17, 2011 and ending on June 19, 2011. And click here for Part Four, beginning on June 20, 2011 and ending on July 27, 2011.

July 28:

• Operation Castaway seller denies shipping guns to Honduras
  
• Back home, and an apology. The TSA protects us from the threat of diabetic shoe bombs.
  
• The oxymoron which is Media Matters (they're not media and they don't matter) runs their big Gunwalker scoop. Soros is not getting his money's worth.
  
• Vince and Jay on Judge Napolitano.
  
• The $1.1 Billion Dollar Question We Asked the Committee to Ask. "Do you know who Kevin O'Reilly is?"
  
• David Codrea: Appropriations Committee calls for independent Gunwalker investigation.
  
• Issa Hopes White House Official Aware of Fast and Furious Will Testify.
  
• ATF multiple long gun reporting form sent to FFLs
  
• Chapping the a$$ of the government monopoly of violence advocates.
  
• Investor's Business Daily: The White House Knew
  

July 29:

• The White House's "modified limited hangout" as expressed through the good services of Richard Serrano, LA Times.
  
• "Media Matters, the pompous pimps of progressive propaganda."
  
• Richard Serrano character references. "He is part of the old Holder clean-up crew." Serrano responds to my email.

July 30:

• Proof that God answers prayer. The Gunwalker Plotters Double Down on Arrogance and Stupidity. So, who is really running ATF these days?
  
• Issa: AT least two more Gunwalker hearings this year.
  
• Dick DeGuerin talks Houston gunwalking.
  

July 31:

• AN OUTSTANDING IDEA. Open letter to AZ AG Tom Horne: prosecute the ATF people responsible for Fast & Furious under state law.
  
• Another country heard from. Pravda on the Potomac uses Gunwalker as an excuse to demand more gun control laws.
  
• Gunwalker Miscellany.

August 1:

• Bob Barr still hasn't figured out the Gunwalker Plot.
  
• "If Holder isn’t removed from office, we at least owe Richard Nixon​ an apology."
  
• Pressure increases on the Calderon government over the Gunwalker plot.
  
• More on CleanUpATF.org about ATF promoting liars and punishing truth-tellers.
  
• Sipsey Street Exclusive: The O'Reilly Factor. The Obama "political Rasputin" who just happened to be emailing "Gunwalker Bill" Newell.
  
• Joe Biden calls tea partiers "terrorists."
  

August 2:

• Another "Only One." I'm sure the perjurer McMahon, in his new job at ATF's internal affairs, will find nothing wrong went on here.
  
• The International Gunrunner Regime's devaluing of language in order to devalue their opponents. Preparatory to what, exactly?
  
• Forbes: A Fast And Furious Assault On Private Gun Sales
  

August 3:

• Another collectivist Schiff-head uses the Gunwalker Plot to justify more power for ATF. Note the convoluted logic and misdirection.
  
• Brian Terry, first known American casualty of the Obama Gunwalker Plot.
  
• Kurt Hofmann: Then again, maybe Obama administration DID directly traffic guns to Mexico.
  
• The Issa Hearings, Janet Napolitano and the road not yet taken.
  
• NSSF & NRA both file suits against ATF on long gun reporting requirement.
  

August 4:

• “If they made mistakes, we will punish those implicated.” Events at the child porn presser that the US media ignored. Holder to turn himself in?
  
• Human Events: The Washington Post has a Partner's Share in Terry's Death.
  
• Melson acting like an Acting Director. But is it all an act?
  

August 5:

• NRA call for Holder to be fired a waste of political capital
  
• "Punishing" the arsonists by giving them more matches and gasoline.
  
• "Full Watergate Mode": The Collapse of the Gunwalker Plot Cover-Up and Legitimacy. For Leviathan, there is no putting this genie back in the bottle.
  
• LaPierre demands Holder's job. Send money. Plus, "We were one of just a few voices in the wilderness." PS: Send money. Aiding the cover-up.
  
• Interesting.
  
• "Gunwalker Bill" Newell, aka "Bloody Bill," won't be taking any Mexican vacations anytime soon.
  
• Very funny.
  
• Well, well. Serrano gets another scoop. DEA admits Gunwalker Scandal involvement.
  

August 6:

• "From the highest levels of a lawless government." Congresscritters are on vacation. When you buttonhole them at the BBQ, make sure they read this.
  
• David Codrea: NRA call for Holder to be fired a waste of political capital. Taking the Weinermobile off-road into the "political wilderness."
  
• FOX: The U.S. Cut a Deal With the Sinaloa Cartel, Say Court Documents
  
• Even liberals get the danger the Gunwalker Scandal poses to the administration.
  

August 7:

• Another prag country heard from?
  
• Fast & Furious: The Movie.
  
• Raising the stakes in Mexico: Dan Restrepo, Kevin O'Reilly & the NSC crew send in CIA & mercenaries. Wasn't Gunwalker good enough for them?
  
• Wanted: Three Percenters tech-savvy enough to create Gunwalker-themed cartoon videos.
  
• Houston gunwalking.
  
• Wayne in the Wilderness.
  

August 8:

• Farago, who once saw corrupt ATF street agents as the cause of Gunwalker, now finds greater exculpation for the higher ups: The Zetas made them do it.
  

August 9:

• Leftists continue ‘seized and submitted’ gun deception and show true feelings
  
• BREAKING NEWS: US attorney opposes victim status for Terry parents in gun case
  
• USA Today wants more restrictions on citizen firearm rights. LaPierre does his "enforce existing gun laws" dance. My LTE.
  
• All about re-election. The White House moves to use all the tools. But Gunwalker could provide the checkmate.
  
• Legitimacy & Gunwalker. "If the system cannot investigate this & correct it, this may be the last time you get a chance to do so without violence."
  

August 10:

• The banality of evil. David Codrea breaks story: USA Burke, in middle of F&F gunwalking culpability, opposes victim status for Terry family.
  
• Anybody in the Flagstaff area want to ask US Attorney Dennis "Iron River" Burke a question about his role in Gunwalker and the Terry murder?
  
• Billy Hoover singing for his Gunwalker alibi? Seems like it from this LA Times story.
  
• Interesting analysis.
  

August 11:

• ATF to media: Gunwalking isn't ALL we do.
  
• Another Fast and Furious? Cornyn demands information on ATF operation in Texas.
  
• FOX: U.S. Attorney's Office Rejects Family of Murdered Border Patrol Agent as Crime Victims.
  

August 12:

• Day By Day annual support fund drive deserves our help
  
• Blood on Obama's hands. Day by Day nails it, again.
  
• Alvie D. Zane asks a good question.
  
• Barack Obama rejects calls for Eric Holder to resign. Note this is a Hispanic news outlet that asked the question that the Anglo media won't.
  

August 13:

• Pravda on the Potomac defends its Gunwalker uncoverage.
  
• One from the archives. An early email to "Gunwalker Bill" Newell.
  
• "From the very beginning, the FBI has known about Gunrunner, has participated in Gunrunner, has helped with the cover-up of Gunrunner."
  

August 14:

• The San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board: "End the delays of Fast and Furious inquiry"

August 15:

• Note to Tampa ATF Field Division: Honduras doesn't need your gunwalking help after all.
  
• Regarding three-legged pigs, Federal arsonists, and their journalist enablers who want to give them more gasoline and matches.
  
• Eric Lichtblau, the most reliable lefty lickspittle at the New York Times (and that's saying a lot), does a hit piece for his masters on Darrell Issa.
  

August 16:

• New York Times' Issa hit piece shows desperation to shield administration
  
• Doubling Down On Cover-Up: ATF promotes Fast and Furious supervisors.
  
• New York Times Story on Rep. Issa Riddled With Factual Errors
  
• Have fun with lickspittle Lichtblau.
  

August 17:

• Cornyn blasts promotions; DOJ says F&F firearms tracked to at least 11 violent crimes IN THIS COUNTRY, Melson's alibi shredded.
  
• What a hoot! Dallas FD SAC undercuts rationale for border state long-gun sales reporting.
  
• Dallas SAC Robert Champion sticks his other foot in his mouth. Defends Fast and Furious.
  
• "ATF Responds to Inaccurate News Reports Regarding 'Fast and Furious' Personnel"
  
• Holder gets gob-smacked by Grassley and Issa. Again.
  
• Sean Sorrentino advises: Tomorrow last full day for the Gunwalker T-Shirts
  

August 18:

• ‘Lone wolf’ attack will produce howls for ‘gun control’
  
• "Lichtblau" defined.
  
• "Is it rational to believe the president and his closest advisers had nothing to do with this murderous plot?"
  
• Variations on a theme of media bias. "These Fourth Estate Fifth Columnists."
  

August 19:

• Unscrambling ATF supervisor’s omelet shows troubling timeline
  
• Cui bono? Obama to work his way out of Gunwalker by another OKC bombing? In a regime of criminals, pay attention to what the head crook says.
  
• Gunwalker Miscellany
  
• More on the New York Times attack on Darrell Issa and egg-sucking dogs, two not-entirely-unrelated subjects. Advice to Lichtblau: Stay out of MS.
  
• Vince Cefalu on the ATF Gunwalker criminals' "lateral transfers": "That’s like putting [Charles] Manson in charge of sharp objects."
  
• Dallas morning News Editorial: Details only get worse from ATF’s Fast and Furious fiasco.
  

August 20:

• Anybody think they'll be revising the figures DOWNWARD?
  
• Dallas Field Division SAC Robert Champion sticks his foot in his mouth -- again -- and takes up the exculpatory cry: "The Zetas made us do it."
  

August 21:

• Darn good question. "Where’s the outrage over FBI bungling?" Better, who were the Ass't US Atty's who oversaw FBI snitches in the Gunwalker Plot?
  
• More on "Larry, Moe & Curly" from CUATF on the "lateral transfers" of the Gunwalker criminals.
  
• "Despite desperate ongoing efforts by DOJ & ATF officials to make it all just 'go away', we are confident that . . Grassley has his eye on the ball."
  
• PJM: "Gunwalker and the Foundation of Liberty."
  

August 22:

• Rahm "Never let a good crisis go to waste" Emanuel, by some accounts the main architect of the Gunwalker Plot, joins Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
  
• Gunwalking in Houston? I wonder what adequate discovery in this case will show?
  
• Hannity's Fast & Furious Show from last week.
  

August 23:

• A Mexican Perspective.
  
• Day by Day on the NYT hit piece against Issa.
  

August 24:

• Government brooks no ‘Gunwalker’ competition
  

August 25:

• Crumpler Files Motion to Vacate Conviction
  
• Sipsey Street Exclusive: "Meetings, Part 1." Why the ATF scheduled a National Violent Crime and Firearms Trafficking Summit on 30 June 2009 in NM.
  

August 26:

• How does clandestine U.S. Mexican policy relate to casino attack?
  
• Lop-sided Body Counts in Mexican Drug War.
  
• Just in case you were wondering why NBC has yet to do even ONE story on the Gunwalker Scandal.
  
• "Researching the matter." Right.
  
• Sipsey Street Exclusive: Before he became "Gunwalker Bill." October 2008 "Priorities" Memo From ATF Phoenix SAC Newell.
  
• Gunwalker as an example of the "Peter Principle"? Or, as my Grandpa used to say, "Son, sh** always floats to the top of the pond."
  
• Allen Lengel of Tickle the Wire, a frequent poster on the Gunwalker Scandal, reveals his own editorial position on firearms.
  
• Sipsey Street Exclusive: "Meetings, Part 2." NM Summit: "A unified effort, cutting across the entire DOJ, to address illegal firearms trafficking."
  

August 27:

• Sipsey Street Exclusive: First they protect the Gunwalker Conspirators and now ATF Headquarters "Celebrates" the Multiple Rifle Sale Reporting Diktat!
  

August 28:

• Sipsey Street Exclusive: "Meetings, Part 3." H. Marshall Jarrett, the reliable political hatchet man. "Melson is unethical."
  

August 29:

• Ignored by the national press so far-- again.
  
• If this guy knows one actual, directly-sourced fact about the Gunwalker Scandal, I’ll eat my boonie hat.
  
• He's got his metaphors a little screwy (Eliot Ness?!?) but he calls it right: "Watergate with murder."
  

August 30:

• Gunwalker scandal: Melson out at ATF
  
• The Night of the Short Knives: "Scratch one flattop." Melson transferred to a rubber room job at DOJ, Burke forced to resign.
  
• Falling under the heading of "Mistakes Were Made." Marvelous local reaction story on the Burke resignation.
  
• Tickle the Wire -- "New Acting ATF Director Todd Jones No Stranger to Fed Law Enforcement; Considered Pro ATF"
  
• FOX News on The Night of the Short Knives.

August 31:

• Why has Justice Department not responded to FOIA appeal on ‘Gunwalker’ briefing?
  
• ATF Agent: 'Only way to track guns would be with crime scenes and dead bodies'
  
• Embassy cable: 'No way of verifying...numbers' of US guns in Mexico
  
• Michelle Malkin on "The Night of the Short Knives." "Screw up, move up, cover up: It’s the Holder way, the Obama way, the Washington way."
  
• Sharyl Attkisson's report last night on CBS News
  
• John Richardson brings us a Minnesota Public Radio interview of B. Todd Jones.
  
• Claire Wolfe makes me laugh.
  
• Sipsey Street Exclusive: "Meetings, Part 4." 30 September 2009: "Chooser of the slain." DAG David Ogden Rides the Gunwalker Skies.
  
• Sipsey Street Exclusive: Wikileaks Cable -- They KNEW the 90% lie was bs. IN OCTOBER 2009!
  
• Issa on Van Susteren: "Much Higher" than Melson.
  
• The NRA made them do it.
  
• Sipsey Street Exclusive: The Long Meeting They Didn't Invite the Press To -- Phoenix Bilateral Arms Trafficking Conference, 22-26 September 2009.
  
• Vince Cefalu on DemocracyNow!
  

September 1:

• ATF emails and Assistant US Attorney memo point to official Gunwalker cover-up
  
• Rarer than gumdrops from a unicorn's ass. Set down your coffee cup, compose yourself and get a grip. NBC finally has to notice the Gunwalker Scandal.
  
• Fast and Furious: Obama’s Watergate
  
• ATF in New Mexico applies make-up for safety during a bust?
  
• Who Is B. Todd Jones?
  
• The cover-up is undeniable. Grassley & Issa drop a nuke on Phoenix US Attorneys Office. Emails utterly damning. Newell perjury certain.
  

September 2:

• Richard Serrano, LA Times: "White House received emails about Fast and Furious gun-trafficking operation." More Nixonian "modified limited hangout."
  
• FOX: "Evidence Suggests Cover-Up in ATF Scandal, as More Guns Appear at Crime Scenes."
  

September 3:

• More on the White House's "modified limited email hangout." "Validating" precisely DICK. (And I don't mean Nixon.)
  
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September 4:

• ASAC Hurley about to be hurled under the bus too. The "Let's blame Phoenix for everything" meme of the cover-up continues.
  
• Joint Special Operations Command channels Gene Autry and heads down Mexico way.
  
• It is time to open a second front on the Gunwalker Scandal. "Nothing concentrates the mind so wonderfully as the prospect of being hung in morning."
  
• Dedicated to Teresa Ficaretta in her search for the "security leak" who blew the cover off her little celebration of the multiple rifle sales diktat.
  

September 5:

• Exclusive Report: Documents indicate ATF, FBI allowed Indiana ‘crime gun’ sales
  
• Sipsey Street Exclusive: "Meetings, Part 5." David Ogden Goes to Houston. GRITs, "The Surge" on the Border and Gloryholes.
  
• Codrea Exclusive: "Project Gangwalker?" More gunwalking -- in INDIANA! FBI manipulated NICS system in favor of felons, AGAIN! What did Traver know?
  
• Phoenix Fast and Furious Improvised Mexican Grenade Case Blows Up in DOJ's Face. Trying to deflect blame, DOJ blames agents.
  

September 6:

• Federal LEO advocacy group charges retaliation for Gunwalker testimony
  
• Big Weekend in the Gunwalker Scandal, Bigger Week Ahead.
  
• Subject for a Second Front on Gunwalker: The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
  
• Gunwalker Miscellany: Filed under the heading of "Still trying to clean up after the flood and don't have time to keep up analysis of breaking news."
  
• A very useful piece of work at Rinos and Rats.
  

September 7:

• Mainstream media ignores Indiana ‘Gunwalker’ story
  
• Gunwalker Miscellany for this morning.
  
• Excellent piece from Bob Owens at PJM. "It's time for the administration to come clean, under oath, and face the consequences for its actions."
  
• Sipsey St. Exclusive: "Meetings, Part 6." "The Surge" comes to Phoenix. The interaction between Group VII, Fast & Furious & GRIT and why it matters.
  
• No "mainstream media" interested in Hoosier Gangwalking. Farago disappointed there are no Sinaloans in the Indiana fuel supply.
  
• National Proletariate Radio on the new acting ATF Director.
  
• Sipsey Street Exclusive: Do the guys in the NRA weeniemobile know about this? More background on Grenadewalker and AUSA Emory Hurley.
  
• It's about damn time: McCain calls for Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing. Wants Holder and Napolitano to testify under oath.
  
• Investor's Business Daily asks: "A White House 'Gunrunner'?" (They also manage to misspell my name, but what the hey.)
  
• Bob Barr (?!?) buys the "permanent director" BS. ANY director of ATF without rigorous oversight & agency transparency is a recipe for more abuses.
  
• FOX: Issa on "Grenadewalker."
  

September 8:

• Holder’s qualified ‘Gunwalker’ denial withers under examination
  
• Stratfor Analysis of the “El Vicentillo” Case & the "CIA-ATF-Sinaloan Axis" Theory.
  
• With weasel words and squirming, Bojangles Holder does the non-denial denial tap-dance.
  
• Sipsey St. Exclusive: In DC, no bad deed goes unrewarded. National Security Council adviser Dan Restrepo's first venture into political dirty tricks.
  

From other Gun Rights Examiners:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• The Fast & Furious e-mail; White House denies connection
  
• Issa to NRA: Two more Fast & Furious hearings planned this year
  
• NSSF, NRA sue over new ‘Fast & Furious’ reporting regs; SAF vows amicus
  
• BREAKING: NRA’s LaPierre demands Holder’s resignation
  
• Explosive admission, new allegations in Operation Fast & Furious
  
• Is press working fast and furiously to deflect blame for botched gun sting?
  
• U.S. Attorney in Phoenix adds insult to injury of slain agent’s family
  
• Left fights back: ATF thumbs nose at Issa as NY Times runs hit piece
  
• Cornyn rips ATF promotions; NW activists disgusted
  
• BREAKING: Issa, Grassley tell Holder ‘word games’ won’t do
  
• NY Times hatchet job on Issa may be imploding
  
• NW gunnies got furious fast over botched ATF op
  
• Has Calderon stepped in to push Fast & Furious agenda?
  
• BREAKING: Sources say Melson stepping down at ATF
  
• Confirmed: Melson out at ATF, replaced by U.S. Atty from MN
  
• Issa to Van Susteren: Fast & Furious goes higher than Melson
  
• Bellevue’s Gottlieb calls for Holder’s resignation
  
• Bombshell: Documents suggest official Fast & Furious cover-up
  
• LaPierre: Public should demand special prosecutor on Fast & Furious
  
• ‘Grenade case’ explodes and leaves many questions
  
• ATF whistleblower keeps blowing, calls personnel shuffle ‘outrageous’
  
• Scathing reactions to Holder’s try for distance from Fast & Furious
  

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Holder and Obama: The only senior government officials NOT in on 'Gunwalker'?
  
• Gun trafficking as compared to William Newell's definition of 'gunwalking'
  
• Then again, maybe Obama administration DID directly traffic guns to Mexico
• 'Gunwalker' moves 'gun problem' from Tea Party to Obama, according to academic
  
• 'Top' Justice Department officials told about 'Project Gunwalker' in March 2010
  
• Mexican actor wants gun trafficking stopped--by giving 'gunwalkers' more power
  
• DoJ shows its concern about 'Project Gunwalker' by promoting central figures
  
• Long gun registration: Today the border states, tomorrow everywhere?
  
• Will 'gun control' pushers decry BATFE leadership being made part-time position?
  
• Newest 'Project Gunwalker' revelations highlight need for special prosecutor
  
• 'Gunwalking' for stricter gun regulation, not a conspiracy theory