Sunday, September 30, 2012

Have a little time now, and I'll start with the Univision report

on Gunwalker:
Indirectly, the United States government played a role in the massacre by supplying some of the firearms used by the cartel murderers. Three of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), according to a Mexican army document obtained exclusively by Univision News.

Univision News identified a total of 57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre.
More on the report at Legal Insurrection.
Yes, I know, the media and people like Cummings will start yelling "We need more laws!"; I still wonder if this might cause the major media to pull their head out and start actually, y'know, reporting on this...


Also,
Congressional Republicans are threatening to subpoena a White House official who declined to speak to them in their investigation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) gunwalking operation: Fast and Furious.
This should've been done a long time ago.


Remember that bullcrap story(literally a 'story', here) in  Fortune?  The one that 'explained' that Gunwalker was all a Stupid Party plot to attack Obama & Holder, etc.?
Scooping other media with an exclusive story, Dylan Byers of Politico today reported he had obtained a copy of a letter dated yesterday from Robert N. Driscoll, the attorney for ATF whistleblower John Dodson, written to Fortune managing editor Andrew Serwer, that demanded retraction of a report by Katherine Eban the letter calls “demonstrably false in many respects.”
 Which in plain language is "Eban lied her ass off, we've got proof, we want a retraction."

 Ignoring all the other stuff, the way the media has carried Obamas' water on Gunwalker is flat disgusting on its own, and a lot of us have wondered if ANYTHING would be enough to make them actually start imitating reporters... we'll see.

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