MIchael Wash at the New York Post asks “Where’s the Outrage” regarding the botched Fast and Furious operation.
About a month ago, the Daily Camera editorialist Erika Stutzman wrote on this botched operation asking for disclosure by the White House and the administration:
It’s appropriate that high-level authorities connected with such a debacle should lose their jobs. But our country’s agents just placed hundreds of unaccounted-for weapons with some of the Americas’ most dangerous, organized and brutal murderers. The White House administration and the Justice Department should be forthcoming with Congress about who else bears responsibility for the botched operation.
Mr. Walsh hypothesizes that the operation is not even what it appears. He proposes two, perhaps three options…
There are two possible explanations. The first is that the anti-gun Obama administration deliberately wanted American guns planted in Mexico in order to demonize American firearms dealers and gun owners. The operation was manufacturing “evidence” for the president’s false claim that we’re to blame for the appalling levels of Mexican drug-war violence.(emphasis added)
If this is true, then Holder & Co. have got to go — and the trail needs to be followed no matter where it leads. For the federal government to seek to frame its own citizens is unconscionable.
A second notion is that the CIA was behind the whole thing, which accounts for all the desperate wagon-circling. Under this theory, the Agency feared the los Zetas drug cartel was becoming too powerful and might even mount a coup against the Mexican government. So some 2,000 weapons costing more than $1.25 million were deliberately channeled to the rival Sinaloa cartel, which operates along the American border, to keep the Zetas in check.
Of course, there’s a third explanation — that both scenarios are true, and that those in charge of Fast and Furious saw an opportunity to shoot two birds with one Romanian-made AK Draco pistol.
If the first option is true, I doubt Erika Stutzman cares. If the 2nd is true, that’s an ugly situation.
Erika should join Michael Walsh in calling for a special prosecuter. Oh, and obviously there’s lots of room for BUDGET CUTTING in the involved agencies.
