Evidence Suggests Cover-Up in ATF Scandal, as More Guns Appear at Crime Scenes
By William La Jeunesse & Laura Prabucki
Published September 02, 2011
FoxNews.com
It seems obvious to me that Obama, who marinated in Chicago's culture of corruption and gangster politics, is pretty comfortable in that environment. Because he is comfortable in it, he doesn't seem to appreciate how deeply corrupt, opaque, and fundamentally unAmerican it is, both in its bureaucracy and in its control of a skewed media. Neither does he seem to appreciate that it took more than 100 years to get to that point. What he seems to fail to see and understand about that is that as pungent as DC's culture is, Chicago's seems shockingly so by comparison—even to longtime beltway insiders. So he seems genuinely surprised at the backlash his crapulence generates.....as if he seriously expects that the rest of the world does business that way. Consequently, he is surprised when, even in as jaded an environment as DC's is, his incompetence and the thuggery of his minions keeps getting exposed.Just hours after the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, federal officials tried to cover up evidence that the gun that killed Terry was one the government intentionally helped sell to the Mexican cartels in a weapons trafficking program known as Operation Fast and Furious.
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Also late Thursday, Sen. Charles Grassley's office revealed that 31 more Fast and Furious guns have been found at 12 violent crime scenes in Mexico.
In an internal email the day after Terry's murder, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Emory Hurley and then-U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke decided not to disclose the connection, saying "this way we do not divulge our current case (Fast and Furious) or the Border Patrol shooting case."
Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said Thursday they are expanding their investigation into the scandal. In a strongly worded letter to Anne Scheel, the new U.S. attorney for Arizona, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee requested interviews, emails, memos and even hand-written notes from members of the U.S. attorney's office that played key roles in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) program.
It's almost as if having been politically successful in Chicago should be an automatic disqualifier for national office because you are functionally unable to operate in a democracy and psychologically unable to understand accountability to The People.