The Fast and Furious scandal involving the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) and the DOJ (Department of Justice) over gun running has just spread out to uncover money laundering by the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration).
The DOJ has apparently been very involved in approving both the ATF gun running and now the DEA program of money laundering. The DEA stands by its laundering monitor program that it claims has operated for many years involving many countries. Yet, it has only been in operation for two years in investigating the Mexican drug cartels and recently Mexican President Calderon denies knowledge.
Therefore the expansion of the DEA’s money laundering involving Mexican drug cartels has occurred under Holder’s DOJ watch alone. Given the fiasco of the gun running operation how confident can we be that the money laundering program under this inept Department of Justice has no “walked money”.
We all know that sometimes to investigate and catch the “bad guys” especially organized crime the authorities need to use covert operations with undercover agents to both gather information and expose
a criminal transaction.
However, there is a line between pretending to be criminal versus engagement in criminal activity on the part of any law enforcement agent or agency. This line cannot be crossed for two reasons, one there is no immunity for law enforcement and they must act within legal boundaries and two, any evidence gathered by law enforcement will be scrutinized by the court for its lawful attainment per the Exclusionary Rule.
When the ATF allowed the illegal sales of guns to unlawful intermediaries to walk across the Mexican border without arresting the individual and confiscating the guns (evidence) they violated the law. Worse of course is that as a result of that inept and illegal plan to wait until the guns arrived at their final destination in the sweaty criminal hands of the Mexican drug cartels the ATF lost track of the guns.
The results have been murderous to both hundreds of Mexican nationals and an American Border Control Agent killed by those “walked guns” that will continue to be used by criminal thugs for years to come. Congress should not rest its investigation until the victims of this government corruption is totally exposed from top to bottom.
The ATF crossed the lawful line in its “Fast and Furious” gun running sting operation and with the help of Holder’s DOJ tried to cover up the fiasco. However, the ultimate question has yet to be answered; under whose authority did these guns get the green light to “walk” across the border? Why is California Representative Darrell Issa probing into this DEA sting operation? Simple, when you have a Holder Justice Department that has failed to be straightforward with Congress, dragged his feet on adherence to subpoenaed material and has made every effort to conceal the truth about knowledge about a high risk covert operation there is no confidence in the federal enforcement system.
Will we discover that DEA is helping to facilitate the multi-million dollar Mexican cartel drug racket by also losing track of the laundered money used to aggrandize the growing criminal organizations that control Mexico where America shares close to 2,000 miles of an unprotected border?
What’s next? Will we discover that perhaps the Department of Homeland security has a program infiltrating Hezbollah in Mexico where undercover Homeland security agents are helping by digging tunnels to the United States? Perhaps maybe the FBI might have a sting operation involving sex trafficking of American prostitutes to Mexican drug cartels? The idea that in order to stop crime we criminalize rather than deputize our law enforcement is another reason Americans need to be wary of corrupt
ion and politics insinuating itself into the executive branch of our government.
ion and politics insinuating itself into the executive branch of our government. The office of the Department of Justice needs to be apolitical and operated by a constitutionally loyal and competent Attorney General.
If Eric Holder was Attorney General for the LAW and the interest of the United States and its citizenry then when his president Obama called for ignoring the Defense of Marriage Act he should have refused to comply.
He did not.
If Eric Holder understands that lady Justice is blind then the men in the Black Panther organization that stood outside the polling place in 2008 in Philadelphia intimidating voters should have been prosecuted by his
department. They were not.If Eric Holder claims no responsibility for the Fast and Furious fiasco then when Congress asked for information regarding the covert operation he should have supplied every detail and quickly. He did not.
If Eric Holder has respect for the power and responsibility of the office of AG then when newspapers (Daily Caller) report that 52 members of Congress are calling for his resignation he should never brandish a threatening finger at the free press. He instead wagged his finger and scolded the Press to stop reporting.
Thursday December 8th Darrell Issa (Rep of California) leading the Fast and Furious investigation warned Holder that he would be in contempt if his office if did not hand over particular e-mails to the committee unless he cited a constitutional basis exempting his office from compliance.
Incredibly Holder’s liberal persecution complex caused him to cite another name in history that liberals liken to witch-hunting that of McCarthy by intoning the response to Issa “Have you no shame?” Part of a famous response at the McCarthy hearings by the Army lawyer Joseph Welch defending a Boston lawyer accused of communist association named Fred Fisher.
For Eric Holder to depict Issa as McCarthy or the public’s right to know (Judiciary Hearing) as a political exercise of defaming grandstanding, knowing that our government is duplicitous in the act of arming drug thugs across the border that have killed innocent Americans and Mexicans is both repugnant and deeply disturbing. Consider the insensibility
Issa reference to Mitchell was far more connective of the present stonewalling by Holder and this A.G. should take note that Mitchell was prosecuted and sent to jail for 19 months.
