Obama Orders Launched Fast and Furious

Project Gun Runner (Fast and Furious) was launched under the orders of President Barack Obama with the knowledge of Attorney General Eric Holder. Deputy Attorney General David Ogden announced the Obama Administration’s new and aggressive ‘comprehensive plan’ on March, 24, 2009. The plan was aimed at disrupting gun trafficking between the United States and Mexico.

‘Fast & Furious’ gets hotter for Holder

New York Post

Don’t look now, but the real action in Washington this week isn’t the parti  san wrangling over the debt ceiling but something — literally — even more  incendiary: Operation Fast and Furious, which seems about to explode right in  the face of Attorney General Eric  Holder — and maybe other administration officials, too.

Also known as Project Gunrunner, the Arizona-based operation was supposed  to be a sting, under which the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and  Explosives, which is part of the Justice Department, allowed “straw purchasers”  to transfer weapons from gun shops in Arizona to Mexican drug cartels to trace  and halt crossborder arms-trafficking.

That’s the official version, anyway — but it’s crumbling, fast.

Obama Administration Fires ATF Whistleblower

Vince Cefalu

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is being accused of retaliating against an agent who helped publicize the agency’s role in allowing thousands of guns to cross the U.S. border and fall into the hands of Mexican drug gangs.

The agent, Vince Cefalu, who has spoken out about the ATF’s so-called “Project Gunrunner” scandal, says he was served with termination papers just last week, and he calls the move politically motivated.

Misfire: Obama’s Scandalous Secret Gun Control Agenda

Townhall

Thousands of guns have been sold to Mexican drug cartels under orders from the Obama Justice Department. Now that Americans have been killed by the department’s failed operation, the White House is blaming law-abiding gun shops for its deadly scandal. But was that the administration’s plan all along?

What we know about Project Gunrunner

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, is threatening to begin contempt proceedings if the Justice Department doesn’t start providing documents about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious. But what’s the controversy about? And what could the documents show?

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In Project Gunrunner, ATF allowed American guns – including AK-47 assault rifles and military-grade, .50 caliber sniper rifles – to be smuggled into Mexico and sold to drug cartels, with the goal of tracking the weapons after they’ve been used.

Stop ATF’s Anti-Gun Zealots

Human Events

by: Michelle Malkin

For 30 years, Chicago banned handguns. The crime rate skyrocketed. Murders soared. Gangs blossomed. Desperate city officials even considered calling the National Guard to combat the out-of-control violence that all the “community organizing” in the world couldn’t curb. The Supreme Court struck down Chicago’s individual firearms ownership prohibition last year, but the same anti-gun zealots who put Windy City citizens’ lives at risk remain in power.

And now one of them may soon be in charge of the scandal-plagued Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Meet Andrew Traver. He’s President Obama’s nominee to head ATF. The Senate Judiciary Committee refused to act on the original nomination last fall. His name was sent up again earlier this year, and a hearing has yet to be scheduled. Obama’s czar-happy habits should be a red flag on a possible recess appointment.