ATF Death Watch 110: Entrapment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsFsUXFrUo&feature=related
"Authorities arrested two Virginia Beach men on charges of selling 20 machine guns and 15 improvised explosive devices to an undercover agent," hamptonroads.net. "A spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...
ATF Death Watch 109: Holder, Melson and Hoover. Oh My!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAf6y1VjAvY
October 28, 2011
The Honorable Darrell E. Issa
Chairman
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Mr. Chairman:
As I have stated repeatedly, I believe Operation Fast and Furious was a terrible mistake with...
ATF Death Watch 108: DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s Talking A Lot
Harold Watson "Trey" Gowdy III is the republican U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district. Janet Napolitano is the head of the Department of Homeland Security. Both players in the drama above knew the score: the Bureau...
ATF Death Watch 107: How Many Guns?
I find it astounding that the Congressional Oversight Committee and the Justice Department are in a pissing match over a single firearm. Representative Issa's investigators have every reason to believe there were at least...
ATF Death Watch 106: Accounts Payable
It's easy enough to conclude that this series isn't a death watch per se. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (and Really Big Fires) created a "guns for goons" program to help...
ATF Death Watch 105: What Did the Mexicans Know and When Did They Know...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpuqiXeZyRo
When drug thugs wielding ATF-enabled firearms shot U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, all hell broke loose. Once the FBI-enabled cover-up was undermined by ATF whistleblowers, that is. Actually, all hell didn't break loose....
ATF Death Watch 104: Timelines and Truthiness
The first thing you do when you've dug yourself into a hole: stop digging. My father wasn't the first to say these words, but he used to say them a lot. And it's good...
ATF Death Watch 103: What’s At Stake
As the Gunwalker scandal chugs along, the "meaning" of the Operation Fast and Furious seems set in stone. As I've asserted in this series and in my Washington Times editorial, the mainstream media has...
ATF Death Watch 102: Issa Subpoenas Widen Gunwalker to ICE Agent Zapata’s Murder
As predicted, Representative Darrell Issa's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has sent a wide-ranging subpoena over to the Department of Justice. "Top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Holder, know more about Operation...
ATF Death Watch 101: Holder Holds Forth on Forthcoming Subpoenas
I spent this morning writing an editorial for The Washington Times on the forthcoming Gunwalker subpoenas---hoping Representative Issa's docs don't drop until after the article appears. So far so good---for me. For U.S. Attorney...
ATF Death Watch 100: Feds Fed Fast and Furious Firearms to the Sinaloans
Not to coin a phrase, but the ATF Gunwalker scandal is a puzzle wrapped in an enigma shrouded in mystery. We don't know the exact motivations for Operations Fast and Furious and Castaway; they...
ATF Death Watch 99: The Sheriffs Shoot Back.
The Sheriffs in Arizona may be getting shot at with Fast n' Furious guns, but they are not taking it lightly. In fact, the sheriffs are shooting back, at the Obama Administration. Per USA Today:
A...