The Republican Party has become the party of "Ah Ha". They think they have a new scheme. A new way to attack the president. To avoid responsibility. The problem with this current debacle is they struck "too soon".
If this had happened, say two weeks before the election, it might have had a chance to actually cause damage to the first African American Attorney General and the first African American President, but with this much time, people will learn the truth. And truth has proven to be the deadly enemy to this current Republican Party.
So forget the fact that Bush used Executive Privilege 6 times while Obama has used it this once. And what did Bush use it for? Things like protecting whoever outed a covert CIA agent, something people other than Republicans think of as "treason".
Forget the fact this program was "officially started" in 2006.
Forget the fact the agent killed wasn't killed with one of these guns.
Forget the fact Holder ordered this program stopped when he found out about it.
Just this simple one thing, when pointed out to thinking Americans, will prove this to be the scheme it is.
When an operation, such as this is put into effect, it takes years of planning. It's no accident is was started in 2006. You know something like this was going on for years. Because it takes years to train people. To make contacts. To put the operation in place. To acquire materials and knowledge. To gather intel. This entire operation began in an area of the country hostile to Obama with people who are Republicans to the core.
Holder didn't enter office with this huge operation already planned out and put in place on day one. It's ludicrous.
Look at the operation that took out Bin Laden after Republicans let him go and stopped looking for him. And it was a very small operation involving a limited number of people. And how long did they plan before the operation went into effect? How much training was involved? How much intel was acquired?
When the size and scope of "Operation Fast and Furious" is revealed and when it started and when Eric Holder took office, it will become apparent this is another attack on Obama by way of Holder. Now for these right wingers, it doesn't matter. They just don't care about truth. I believe my all time favorite post here was when some right winger said Iraq was Obama's fault. That we never should have invaded. This is the same kind of thing.
Rdean you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
Anyone that is familiar with the specifics of this case knows you are full of shit. The left is terrified, they are desperate and they know damn right well that this is going to be huge.
I have already posted literally fifty times debunking the lame arguments that the leftists on this board have posted, but now that more and more media outlets are finally covering this story I'll just copy and paste to prove you are purposely skewing and twisting the facts.
"Heres what Fast and Furious is all about and for the uninitiated, be prepared for a shock. In 2009, the US government instructed Arizona gun sellers illegally to sell arms to suspected criminals. Agents working for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were then ordered not to stop the sales but to allow the arms to walk across the border into the arms of Mexican drug-traffickers. According to the Oversight Committees report, The purpose was to wait and watch, in hope that law enforcement could identify other members of a trafficking network and build a large, complex conspiracy case
. [The ATF] initially began using the new gun-walking tactics in one of its investigations to further the Departments strategy. The case was soon renamed Operation Fast and Furious.
"Its important to note that the Bush administration oversaw something
similar to Fast and Furious. Called Operation Wide Receiver, it used the common tactic of controlled delivery, whereby agents would allow an illegal transaction to take place,
closely follow the movements of the arms, and then descend on the culprits. But Fast and Furious is different because it was uncontrolled delivery, whereby the criminals were essentially allowed to drop off the map. Perhaps more importantly, Wide Receiver was conducted with the cooperation of the Mexican government. Fast and Furious was not."
So Obamas operation is subtly different. But just as concerning is the heavy handed way that the administration has handled criticism. Obama says that the Oversight Committee has been hi-jacked by Republicans who would rather talk about politics than creating jobs (because Obama is o-so very good at generating those). But there has been Democratic criticism too, and the Prezs determined defence of Holder will only encourage conspiracy thinking that the scandal has hidden depths. Executive privilege is usually associated with protecting information that passes through the Oval Office. What did the documents reveal about Obamas association with the operation?