By Chrissy the Hyphenated
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Lefties like Media Matters are quibbling over the claim that stimulus funds paid for this. According to them, the actual stimulus dollars that were specifically earmarked for Project Gunrunner didn’t actually get paid out for it quite yet. Or something.
Wow. That’s really pathetic. Next, they’ll be screaming how the project started under Bush, which is also true.
But let me see, did Bush sign the bill that allocated $10 million to EXPAND a project that whistle blowers had already reported was failing dangerously? He did not.
And were Republicans in charge of Congress when that earmark to “stimulate the economy by giving guns to murderers” got dropped into the stimulus bill? They were not.
Warner Todd Huston has an interesting comment at http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=8842 –
It seems to me that this Obama program had an ulterior motive to the one claimed by the BATF. I posit that this program was also meant to help the gun banners in the USA with their anti-American crusade against the right of self-protection. I think it is likely that Obama intended to use the evidence of US guns in Mexico to call for elimination of our Second Amendment rights. It would be an “emergency,” dontcha know?
Naturally, he never expected it to get out that his own administration was the one putting those American guns in the hands of Mexican murderers and drug dealers, but, well, you know. He expected that part to stay a secret so that he could raise the alarm over a manufactured “problem” he could “solve” with his anti-Second Amendment views.
Fox News has also reported at http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/27/atf-to-fire-gunrunner-whistleblower/
June 27, 2011: 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.
“Aside from Jay Dobyns, I don’t know of anyone that’s been more vocal about ATF mismanagement than me,” said Cefalu, a senior special agent based in Dublin, Calif. “That’s why this is happening.” Dobyns, an ATF special agent based in Tucson, has appeared several times on Fox News to discuss the scandal.
Cefalu first told FoxNews.com about the ATF’s embattled anti-gun smuggling operation in December, before the first reports on the story appeared in February. “Simply put, we knowingly let hundreds of guns and dozens of identified bad guys go across the border,” Cefalu said at the time.
Since then, Cefalu’s claims have been vindicated, as a number of agents with first-hand knowledge of the case came forward. The scandal over Project Gunrunner led to congressional hearings, a presidential reprimand – Obama called the operation “a serious mistake” – and speculation that ATF chief Ken Melson will resign.
Yet last week, Cefalu, who has worked for the agency for 24 years, was forced to turn in his gun and badge. He can appeal but will be on “paid administrative leave” during the process.
Cefalu’s dismissal follows a string of allegations that the ATF retaliates against whistleblowers.
Keep your eye peeled for more on this scandal. It ain’t going away.
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