Obama Ordered Project Gun Runner: Fast and Furious

Here’s a video showing the March 24,2009 speech by Deputy Atty. General David Ogden, announcing the $10 million allocated from the recovery slush funds for the ATF to fortify project gun runner / fast and furious.

This announcement does not jibe with the claims that Obama and Holder were unaware of the Fast and Furious plan to sell guns to Mexican criminals.

ATF Whistleblower Vince Cefalu is fired

Tossed for the Truth? ATF Fires ‘Project Gunrunner’ Whistleblower | Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze.

Vince Cefalu is the ATF agent who has revealed and criticized his employer for the fast and furious operation which now has the whole agency in hot water, as well as director Ken Melson, and US Atty. General, Eric Holder.

Supposedly the corruption prevention measures in the federal government confer protection upon whistleblowers……… except at the ATF, where firing them  is OK

It appears that Cefalu has been in hot water since 2005, when he exposed an illegal wiretapping done by the ATF.

 

 

ATF Let Hundreds of U.S. Weapons Fall into Hands of Suspected Mexican Gunrunners – The Center for Public Integrity

ATF Let Hundreds of U.S. Weapons Fall into Hands of Suspected Mexican Gunrunners – The Center for Public Integrity.

In an effort to obtain prosecutions of criminals higher up in the food chain, the ATF purposely allowed guns to be sold to intermediaries, then pass into Mexico where they were used in various crimes involving bandits and the drug cartel.   The majority of the guns involved in this scheme remain at large.

This caught a little more than usual non-attention due to the slaying of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.  Two of the weapons associated with this crime were traced to the ATF Fast and Furious operation which allowed those guns to pass into Mexico.

Whistle blowers within the ATF are expecting to be jobless due to having provided some of  the information linked above.    It’s worth a read.