This is not a new story, but I thought it was worth reminding gentle readers just how our government treats our Constitution as toilet paper. The story, out of Australia because our own press could not be bothered, is entitled Gun-running scandal exposes the truth about Obama's 'transparency'. The story, with the buried lede, is about Operation Fast and Furious, described in the U.S. as a failed scheme to track guns that are allowed to "walk" into Mexico throughout the drug cartels. As it turned out, the real purpose was to walk guns to Mexico to create a reason to crack down on guns. They never meant to tract them at all.
THE deadly-but-forgotten government gun-running scandal known as “Fast and Furious” has been dormant for years, thanks to White House stonewalling, and media compliance. But newly uncovered e-mails have reopened the case, exposing the anatomy of a cover-up by an administration that promised to be the most transparent in history.
“At least 20 other deaths or violent crimes have been linked to Fast and Furious-trafficked guns.”
A federal judge has forced the release of more than 20,000 pages of emails and memos previously locked up under President Obama’s phony executive-privilege claim. A preliminary review shows top Obama officials deliberately obstructing congressional probes into the border gun-running operation.
Fast and Furious was a Justice Department program that allowed assault weapons — including .50-caliber rifles powerful enough to take down a helicopter — to be sold to Mexican drug cartels allegedly as a way to track them. But internal documents later revealed the real goal was to gin up a crisis requiring a crackdown on guns in America. Fast and Furious was merely a pretext for imposing stricter gun laws....snip...
The program came to light only after Terry’s 2010 death at the hands of Mexican bandits, who shot him in the back with government-issued semiautomatic weapons. Caught red-handed, “the most transparent administration in history” flat-out lied about the program to Congress, denying it ever even existed.
Then Team Obama conspired to derail investigations into who was responsible by first withholding documents under subpoena — for which Holder earned a contempt-of-Congress citation — and later claiming executive privilege to keep evidence sealed.
The Obama administration did everything it could to destroy the United States as founded. Even so, they couldn't quite finish the job. Then Trump came along and reversed some of Obama's destructive policies. Unfortunately, the Republican party was with the Democrats, and so did not wnat to get rid of Obamacare. And of course, the Obama DOJ wasn't going to prosecute the people who responsible for Fast and Furious. But it appears Trump's DOJ wasn't going there either. The Biden administration is doing its best to finish what Obama started.
The fact is that the Obama administration couldn't care less whether their schemes were Constitutional or not, and it seems, Congress doesn't care either. They are going to pursue their agenda no matter what. It has been a characteristic of Democrats for sure, but Republicans have also pursued a Leftist agenda more subtly. This is why we all need to stay vigilant. Because our "representatives" often do not represent us.
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