Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Embassy cable: 'No way of verifying...numbers' of US guns in Mexico

It also shows that everybody who was anybody in the administration was institutionally involved, not just ATF, and certainly not just ATF Phoenix, as some would like to confine investigations to. And among the recipients, one stands out--the last one on the list: NSC. [More]
This afternoon's Gun Rights Examiner report notes a direct line of involvement to the very top that goes back years...

ATF Agent: 'Only way to track guns would be with crime scenes and dead bodies'

"We’re joined by Vincent Cefalu, an ATF Special Agent who helped blow the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious and has since faced retaliation. 'We allowed these guns to continue on in the hopes of establishing some sort of chain, or iron pipeline, which was so far from the truth,' Cefalu says. 'The only way to [track] the guns would be with crime scenes and dead bodies.'" [More]
Today's second Gun Rights Examiner report features an inconvenient truth.

An Important Point

The temp is part time...[Read]

Hey, at least they didn't outsource it to India.  Although I can just hear the helpline dialog...

Some Minor Clarification is in Order...

"Sharyll Attkisson first broke this story last spring..."
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Sorry, that's not quite accurate.

Although I am delighted to see the term "Gunwalker" gaining mass acceptance.

Oh, and one more thing...

A Dim View

Even "Authorized Journalists" are supposed to have standards. [Read]

The outrage is our expectations for these characters have been so lowered that sentence didn't say "especially" instead of "even." 

Why has Justice Department not responded to FOIA appeal on ‘Gunwalker’ briefing?

Ms. Jones, I have received no notification one way or another. Is that due to an oversight, was your response lost in the mail, or has not responding to my appeal been directed, and if so, by whom? [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner report chips away at a stone wall. No, I don't expect to knock it down, but a little erosion here, a little erosion there, why you never can tell what might leak through the breach...

This Day in History: August 31

Erkuries Beatty, Lieutenant, 4th PA, "This morning all the boats was sent down the River likewise in the boats the Ammunition waggons & all the Artillery excepting four three Pounders and a little Cowhorn the wounded & sick went down which was Capt. Tuda which was very sick... [More]