Obama-Biden Gun-Running Scandal: 10 Years Later, Still No Answers
Remembah when the Obama Administration sold guns to the Mexican cartels? CCRKBA remembahs.
Ten years ago, America learned about one of the Obama administration’s dumbest ideas–and that is saying a lot–when the scandal surrounding their failed “Operation Fast and Furious” finally got too big for the mainstream media to ignore. As near as we can tell, the administration’s plan was to sell as many firearms as possible to the Mexican cartels, immediately lose track of them, and then blame any resulting bloodshed on America’s “lax gun laws.” As more and more information came out–for example, the fact that one of the Operation Fast and Furious guns was used to murder a U.S. Border Patrol agent–the harder the Obama/Biden administration pushed to bury it in hopes it would be forgotten. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) hasn’t forgotten, and neither should we.
After all, the very same man who signed off on this bloody gun running scandal is now running for President, and he has already made it very clear that, if elected, America is in for four more years of this same type of action. It’s time to hold Biden’s and Obama’s feet to the fire for some answers…and if they don’t think Americans deserve those answers, maybe they’ll agree that Mexico does. Here’s what the CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb would like us all to remember:
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Mexico deserves answers about a bloody Obama-Biden administration gun running scandal called “Operation Fast and Furious,” adding that after ten years, the American public also has a right to know the truth.
“Fast and Furious was a scandal of monumental proportions,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb recalled. “The Obama/Biden administration at first feigned ignorance, then withheld thousands of subpoenaed documents from the House Oversight Committee, claiming executive privilege until a federal court ordered them to be turned over to investigators. One ATF agent told the Committee that Fast & Furious was ‘the perfect storm of idiocy.’
“We can certainly sympathize with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador,” he continued. “Under Barack Obama, Joe Biden and former Attorney General Eric Holder, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed more than 2,000 firearms to get into criminal hands in Mexico. Many people have been killed, including Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
“Mexico and every U.S. citizen deserves not only an apology but Holder and several other former Obama/Biden administration officials should have been criminally prosecuted,” he stated. “Bad actors should be punished, not law abiding American gun owners, as Joe Biden has proposed with his gun control agenda if elected president.
“Incredibly,” Gottlieb added, “the Obama-Biden administration used this fiasco as an excuse to implement new requirements for firearms dealers in the Southwest, as if they were to blame for what happened.”
Holder became the first serving U.S. Attorney General to be held in criminal and civil contempt of Congress.
“Any apology should come from those responsible,” Gottlieb observed. “That would be Obama, Biden, Holder and the ATF and Justice Department officials who cooked up this outrageous scheme.
“It’s been almost ten years since Fast & Furious was exposed,” Gottlieb said. “That’s long enough to wait for answers. We can’t allow this scandal to be swept under a rug any longer. Unfortunately, if Joe Biden becomes the next president, with his selective memory, he’ll deliberately forget this travesty and the behavior it spawned.”
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The American tendency to turn our faces away from the past and look towards the future is usually one of the nation’s greatest strengths, but in this case, we absolutely cannot allow the public to forget Operation Fast and Furious…or both we and the citizens of Mexico can look forward to much more of the same.
SEEMS like the fact a lot of Republicans (those in office during Obama days) may be just as guilty thus there in lies reason the Republicans won’t act on this big scandal!! How many of these guys are in the “deep swamp” group? Please give our President Trump another 4 yrs to get these guys unmasked Please Vote Trump
Perhaps we should use old methods. This includes dragging their asses out into the street and hanging them from the nearest light pole. But we are supposedly civilized, so we won’t. What a pack of pussies we’ve become.
First black president come with a big fat “Race Card” that give him a free pass on everything, even the media wouldn’t mess with the POS.
Still Waiting & Waiting & Waiting. To Date; No Arrests, No Charges, No Prosecutions, No Sentences, No Jail or Prison Time, No Executions. When will it Happen? NEVER – Oh they may find some Low Level Puke to hang it on someday. Just like Lindsay Graham Guaranteed he would Start Senate hearings Last May regarding Russiagate – yeah Right. Don’t Hold Your Breath.
Guess you can only bust a Traitor democrat if they give you permission……….
The Obama’s, Biden’s, Holder, comey, clapper, brennan and all the deep state thugs MUST be Investigated for treason. The absolute worst is Obama the crime boss; he committed Treason along with his lap dogs. Never forget how many committed suicide connected to the Clinton’s, yeah right.
Lawmakers protect their own, terrified if they act then lose the next election they will get an unwelcome response.
Term limiters people, lobbyists NO, political donations NO.
It all comes back to the voters who let these low life mongrels (apologies to mixed breed canines) come into power and reap personal financial gains.
I followed this closely at that time and the testimony of the ATF Head before Congress. He said ‘ Under Oath ‘ that His Orders Came From The TOP ! The Top Being The White House …… Eric Holder Is STILL In Contempt Of Congress ( ? ) because he refused to give up exactly WHO ordered ‘ him ‘ to sell 2500 weapons to drug cartels in Mexico . Being The Top Law Enforcement Officer In America , Holder had only Biden and Obama above him ……
I agree that our politicians need to be held accountable and in doing so make sure we don’t create a double standard. When we have a murder in the USA and the anti gun groups blame the existence of guns as the reason, we respond by saying The gun is only a tool and it is the individual that should be held accountable. Likewise when people propose to hold the manufacture or dealer accountable for the death, we are quick to defend them as they have no control over people who obtain the firearm.
Don’t you think the cartel would have used one of their other weapons if they had not purchased on of Obama’s? I think Holderman and those involved should be charged with illegal sales of firearms and all the associated crimes associated with that act. Charging them with murder would be a dangerous double standard and would weaken our defense the next time we Procter a manufacture or dealer from a murder charge.
No answers until republican politicians, if there are any other than Trump, who demand answers and consequences.
Mexico should charge obama and holder with gunrunning and demand their extradition. Then they can serve time in a Mexican prison. If we can’t get justice from the US maybe we can get it from Mexico.
Mexico should absolutely take The U.S.A. to court for SMUGGLING / GUN RUNNING !
There are many crimes that Obama , Hillary et al, are responsible for! These crimes along with the proof are brought forth and………nothing happens! If you are a liberal democrat you literally get away with murder!
Especially the Clintons. Hence the new term that should be added to Webster’s dictionary “Clintoncide”.
I want answers and I want those responsible to do prison time.
i’m with you Michael ALL These MURDER’s in the Obama Administration connected to this FAST AND FURIOUS SCANDAL must be held ACCOUNTABLE, every one of these SOB’s from Obama Bin lying should face a PRISON LIFE SENTENCE WITH NO CHANCE OF PAROLE.