karder wrote:I believe that Obama has good cause to invoke executive privilege. I believe that the president and his administration knew all about this operation and were supporting it.
We spent a good deal of 2011 hearing about how 90% of the traceable guns recovered in Mexico were from the U.S. and the liberal media was calling for a renewal of the assault weapons ban to help our southern neighbors. President Obama told the president of Mexico that he supported renewal of the assault weapons ban and tighter gun control on our side of the border but that "the political climate was not right".
My personal belief is that the Obama administration was intentionally dumping guns into Mexico, not so that they could catch gun runners, but so that those weapons could be traced back to the U.S. and used as evidence as a need to develop a new assault weapons ban and tighter restrictions here. Call me a conspiracy theory nut. That's okay, I can take it.
Ultimately, the operation blew up in their face after some federal officers were murdered, and oddly, all those stories about U.S. guns in Mexico dried up.
If I were Obama, I would invoke executive privilege and have my staff give the shredding machine a good workout.
