Republican lawmakers are demanding answers after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,
and Explosives (ATF) revealed they were destroying firearms associated with the Obama/Biden
administration’s botched Operation Fast and Furious, just weeks before Republicans assume
control of Congress and despite ongoing criminal investigations related to the scandal.
During that scandal the Obama/Biden Justice Department allowed Mexican drug cartels to not
only buy 2,000 firearms from legal U.S. dealers using false information, but allowed cartels to
transport and use the weapons to see where they ended up. That differed from Bush
administration policy, in which the illegal buyers were immediately arrested.
An estimated 300 murders are tied to weapons bought during the Fast and Furious scandals,
including the murders of two U.S. Border Patrol agents.
The ATF claims decision was made after the Department of Justice inspector general found
firearms seized during the scandal were improperly stored and should be destroyed as
all “criminal investigations, internal DOJ reviews, and civil suits relating to Operation Fast and
Furious have concluded and that stored evidence from that investigation no longer needs to be
preserved.”
But Republican lawmakers point out there are still ongoing criminal prosecutions related to the
wave of violence the Obama/Biden administration unleashed.
“Although the ATF apparently intends to forget its dangerous misconduct in Operation
Fast and Furious, the scandal is still a matter of public concern,” writes House Judiciary
Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) in a letter to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach.
“(E)arlier this year, prosecutors in Mexico charged seven individuals with crimes related to
Operation Fast and Furious, including Mexico’s former top police official and a former Mexican
Federal Police commander,” writes Jordan.
“Given the potential for ongoing criminal and possible civil actions, it is not in the interest of
justice for the ATF to destroy potential evidence associated with Operation Fast and Furious,”
Jordan concludes.
Operation Fast and Furious was a George W. Bush operation that carried over to the Obama Administration. Look it up before you umake stupid fake comments
Did anyone except Joe Biden to do anything right or his thugs in ATF! They have by passed the constitution and the laws. Joe Biden has done so much damage to America. Not one people in the justice system does nothing to stop him. Do you see civil war coming. They are grooming our children, taxing us to pay for Ukraine borders but not ours. Democrats have jail people for what Nancy pelosi did on jan6. Republicans leaders side with the democrat’s nazi regime. Mitch McConnell must be charged with treason. Anyone in Congress who voted for killing the American people with the vaccines, killing unborn babies, not standing up for our troops, getting money from China and Ukraine. Hillary Clinton telling Americans that they are the traitors when she is truly the number one traitor in America. The blue states governors will be charged with murder. Joe Biden the puppet buffoon for shutting down the pipeline then goes and beg our enemies for oil. Ships our reserves to China and gets paid for it, where’s that money Joe? In your bank account? Thanks again voters your stupidity has no bounds. Your all rotten lazy idiots.
We should have invested in BleachBit and shredding machines.
1) The Democrat party has NEVER achieved success without changing the rules of engagement.
2) Sensorship and propaganda are excellent evidence of an indefensible argument.
3) Loyalty to the Democrat party NEVER made ANYBODY a better American.
4) “If it weren’t for double standards, the Democrat party would have NO STANDARDS at all”.
Fast and Furious was only ONE of the MANY such operations BATFE was running. There was also Operation Castaway in Florida, where the Tampa Field Division of BATFE was running weapons to Communist terrorists supporting former President Zelaya in Honduras, with the help of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, and the Miami-Dade Police Department.
Lock The Bastard Up !
Cover up
Figures. If this had been Trump the lamestream media woulda been all over it and democrats in congress would be screaming for another impeachment.
I don’t want to hear one more word about files at Mar-a-Lago.. Not with this going on..
WHEN is accountability going to happen??
Oh really???? Right, sweep Holders involvement under the rug!!! This a huge dbl standard
about call this contempt of Congress crap!!! All the talk about it….Eric Holder was held in
contempt of Congress over this!!!! He would not comply with the supena so congress held
him in comtempt ( the US Atty General for crying out loud ) Perfect example of the HUGE
double std we have now!!!! They are after every Republican they can think of (6 committee)
but continue to sweep Holders issue under the rug!!!! A Federal Agent lost his life because
of what Holders people did, but refused to be accountable for it!!!! This is a perfect case
for this committee to try and go after every republican they can get thier grubby little hands
on. It’s like hey clean up your own back yard before you prey on someone else’s. He was
NEVER held accountable for this mess….now they want to destroy all the evidence ?????
DO you folks see what is happening here??? We can not allow this…enough already…..
They won’t post anything that shines a light on Democrat wrong doing!!!!! It’s all about
looking out for the left!!!! Figures….
The only thing that would prompt me to destroy illegal weapons would be that I fear someone might find out who where and what were actually naught. I smell a rat in the garage. Leave those firearms alone. We may want to use them to execute the guilty just for the irony of it. jwstx MAGA GBA
I knew back then, that our politicians were the head of the drug cartel. EVIL.
Operation “COVER OBAMA AND FRIENDS ASSES” is underway along with the TWO-TIERED JUSTICE SYSTEM
Anyone destroying evidence should be arrested and thrown in jail. They destroyed government evidence . They are afraid of people finding out the truth on what the government had done. Biden is responsible him and his administration and he needs impeached for it along with all his other atrocities against the constitution and the American people
this is obamas plans for the US he is running the show. joe has to do what he says, obama has trash on him
Can You Say “TREASON” ?