ShootSpeeders
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Another example of "blame white people when blacks screw up". Might work though since the establishment media is always on the dem side.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee blames Fast and Furious on George W. Bush - Spokane Conservative | Examiner.com
On Wednesday, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) tried to pin the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal on former President George W. Bush.
This Fast and Furious debacle started under the Bush administration, Jackson Lee said. And it is been evidenced by various reports that it started under the ATL office in Arizona unbeknownst to leadership in Washington DC, at least leadership that came in under the Obama administration in this instance, Eric Holder.
Not so fast, says Andrew C. McCarthy of National Review Online.
For starters, Fast and Furious did not start until 2009, months after George W. Bush was no longer in the White House.
McCarthy explains that the Democrats' strategy is to conflate two "very different programs."
In this case, the two programs are Operation Fast & Furious and a "Bush era ATF initiative known as 'Operation Wide Receiver.'"
According to McCarthy, "Operation Wide Receiver" involved "not gun-walking but controlled delivery."
He explains that "controlled delivery is a very common law enforcement tactic."
Basically, the agents know the bad guys have negotiated a deal to acquire some commodity that is either illegal itself (e.g., heroin, child porn) or illegal for them to have/use (e.g., guns, corporate secrets). The agents allow the transfer to happen under circumstances where they are in control i.e., they are on the scene conducting surveillance of the transfer, and sometimes even participating undercover in the transfer. As soon as the transfer takes place, they can descend on the suspects, make arrests, and seize the commodity in question all of which makes for powerful evidence of guilt.
"Fast and Furious," on the other hand, "involved uncontrolled deliveries of thousands of weapons."