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| Project Gunwalker: Next Hearing on July 26th |
| 2011-07-21 |
| I watched the first hearing, and it was not boring! Agents from across the border will be testifying. On Tuesday, July 26th, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will convene a hearing as part of the ongoing investigation into the Department of Justice's Operation Fast and Furious, a tragically flawed effort that is connected to deaths on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border. The Committee's previous hearing, Operation Fast and Furious: Reckless Decisions, Tragic Outcomes, featured ATF agents who testified they were ordered to let guns destined for Mexican drug cartels walk and heartbreaking testimony from the family of a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose murder is linked to guns that law enforcement chose not to interdict. This Tuesday's hearing, Operation Fast and Furious: The Other Side of the Border, will feature the testimony of U.S. law enforcement officials who witnessed a different side of the controversial operation. These officials saw the steady stream of Operation Fast and Furious guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico and were given orders from superiors not to alert Mexican authorities. Members of the Committee will also have their first opportunity to question ATF supervisors who have defended Operation Fast and Furious and the Justice Department's decisions to committee investigators. "The Acting Director of the ATF has told congressional investigators that the Justice Department is attempting to shift blame in Operation Fast and Furious away from its political appointees," said Chairman Darrell Issa. "Examining the accounts of witnesses who did not participate in Operation Fast and Furious, but were nonetheless disturbed as they watched it unfold is critical to understanding the scope of this flawed program. This testimony is especially important in light of the Justice Department's willful efforts to withhold key evidence from investigators about what occurred, who knew and who authorized this reckless operation." Witnesses Mr. Carlos Canino -- ATF Acting Attaché to Mexico Mr. Darren Gil -- Former ATF Attaché to Mexico He got pulled because he wanted to tell Mexico about what was going on.Mr. Jose Wall -- ATF Senior Special Agent, Tijuana, Mexico Mr. Lorren Leadmon -- ATF Intelligence Operations Specialist Mr. William Newell -- Former ATF Special Agent in Charge, Phoenix Field Division Mr. William McMahon -- ATF Deputy Assistant Director for Field Operations (West, including Phoenix and Mexico) |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #3 This something related to trafficking and cartels; "Coyote sells nine Salvadorian women for prostitution to “Los Zetas” Posted on July 20, 2011 • Filed under: El Salvador, Human Smuggling, Latin America Womens Issues, Mexico, Organized Crime, Police/Military Activity, Zetas “Los Zetas”, a Mexican criminal group, allied with the Salvadorian coyote Jesus Ovidio Guardado to recruit women for prostitution informed El Mundo.com.sv. The coyote tricked the victims by promising safe passage to the United States when the actual plan was to sell the women to Enrique Jaramillo Aguilar, leader of one of the Zeta cells in Reynosa. The victims testified that Aguilar forced them to prostitute themselves by drugging them and branding them with tattoos until they were able to escape". |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-07-21 20:15 |
| #2 Clean up, Aisle #2. Bring industrial strength disinfectant. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2011-07-21 19:12 |
| #1 Where were the brains of Obama who signed for the funding of this fiasco, of Holder who bragged in 2009 he was the one who implimented the plan and the BATFE who's purpose is to see that things like this don't happen. I think we should go back to the beginning to whoever wrote the "Gunrunner" plan and calculated the 40 million dollars for its implimentation back in 2006. Obviously this plan was in the works for a very long time and a key part of the Democrats program to change America from the land of the free. I hope Darrell Issa is successful in bringing all those involved to justice. Too many people south of the border have been murdered by this ploy to create a crisis for futher gun control legislation and too many people north of the border finally realize depth of illegality the Democrats are will to go to circumvent and destroy the Constitution of the United States. Mass murder has been committed to further their ideology. This is almost as heinous as the Democrats withholding and falsifying documents to put a foreigner in the White House. |
| Posted by: David169 2011-07-21 15:28 |