ATF Seeks ‘Massive’ Database of Personal Info: ‘Assets, Relatives, Associates and More’

CNS News

A recent solicitation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) reveals that the agency is seeking a “massive” online database capable of pulling up individuals’ personal information, connections and associates.

Fast and Furious in a Rotten Nutshell

American Thinker

The latest in a series of revelations in the ongoing saga of the Fast and Furious scandal — where more than 2,000 rifles were knowingly and willfully allowed to be transported untracked from the United States into Mexico — is truly stunning.

A series of damning memos from 2010 was recently obtained by CBS News, and they indicate that Attorney General Eric Holder — as well as several senior Justice Department officials — were aware of the deadly program.

Arizona Sheriff Explains Fast And Furious

MSM Sheep: Ignoring the Scandal of the Century

Pajamas Media

Monday’s revelations by Mike Vanderboegh at Sipsey
Street Irregulars and David Codrea at the Gun
Rights Examiner, corroborated here
at PJMedia and expounded upon at Fox
News, comprise a “smoking gun” of the one of the most stunning political
scandals in U.S. history.

As William Lajeunesse writes at Fox:

The Obama Investigations

Heritage

You wouldn’t know it if you solely paid attention to the mainstream media, but while President Barack Obama attempts to sell the country on hundreds of billions in new stimulus spending and $1.5 trillion in new taxes, his Administration is smack in the middle of several growing scandals: the Operation Fast and Furious gun-running debacle and the crony capitalism wrongdoing involving Solyndra and LightSquared.

Secret Recordings Raise New Questions in ATF ‘Gunwalker’ Operation

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Fox Nation

WASHINGTON - CBS News has obtained secretly recorded conversations that raise questions as to whether some evidence is being withheld in the murder of a Border Patrol agent.

The tapes were recorded approximately mid-March 2011 by the primary gun dealer cooperating with ATF in its “Fast and Furious” operation: Andre Howard, owner of Lone Wolf Trading Company in Glendale, Arizona. He’s talking with the lead case ATF case agent Hope MacAllister.

The tapes have been turned over to Congressional investigators and the Inspector General.

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Gunwalker Linked to Three More Murders

Pajamas Media

CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson has revealed a recent document submitted by the Department of Justice to congressional investigators. The document shows that guns linked to Operation Fast and Furious are responsible for at least three more murders in addition to the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry:

More Violent Crimes in Mexico a Result of Operation Fast and Furious

Townhall

In a letter to Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley, ranking member on the Judiciary Committee, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich confirmed Operation Fast and Furious started on November 16, 2009 has resulted in a number of violent crimes in Mexico. From the letter:

ATF Director Steps Down Over “Fast and Furious” Scandal…

Weasel Zippers

(Fox News) — Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson has been reassigned to a lesser post in the Justice Department and the U.S. attorney for Arizona was also pushed out Tuesday as fallout from Operation Fast and Furious reached new heights.

Melson’s step down from his role as head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to the position of senior adviser on forensic science in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Programs is effective by close of business Tuesday, administration officials announced. U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota B. Todd Jones will replace Melson.

U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke, one of the officials closely tied to Fast and Furious, is also a casualty in a shakeup tied to the botched gun-running program. Burke was on the hot seat last week with congressional investigators and, according to several sources, got physically sick during questioning and could not finish his session.

The purge of those responsible for the firearms trafficking scandal continued as new documents reveal a deeper involvement of federal agencies beyond ATF.

Keep reading…

“Fast and Furious” Goes All the Way to the White House

Human Events

By now, “Gunwalker” and “Fast and Furious” have both entered the national lexicon.  And although the amount of information known about the operations varies from person to person, the majority of Americans know they have something to do with the selling of guns to “straw purchasers” in the U.S., who were supposed to smuggle the guns into Mexico and put them in the hands of cartel members, who were then to be arrested.

What most people seem not to know is who exactly was behind the Gunwalker and Fast and Furious operations. Was it the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives)?  Yes.  Was it also Attorney General Eric Holder?  Well, there’s no doubt he was instrumental in Gunwalker, and it’s now known that his chief of staff was briefed on Fast and Furious.  So how about President Obama? What did he know?  According to information that has surfaced during ongoing investigations by Rep. Darrell Issa (R.-Calif.) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R.-Iowa), it’s certain that knowledge of Fast and Furious went all the way to the White House.