Arsenal of Fast and Furious Weapons Found in Cartel Leader’s Home In Mexico

AP photo, The LA Times

Pat Dollard sums up the motive behind the Obama administration’s gun-walking operations:

Eric Holder intentionally flooded Mexico with guns in order to then blame Arizona gun dealers, and then crack down on them. Obama admitted to Jim Brady’s wife, Sarah, “We’re working on gun control “under the radar.” He was talking about “Fast and Furious”.

The LA Times reports:

Reporting from Washington—

High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF’s Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in the Mexican drug wars.

In all, 100 assault weapons acquired under Fast and Furious were transported 350 miles from Phoenix to El Paso, making that West Texas city a central hub for gun traffickers. Forty of the weapons made it across the border and into the arsenal of Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, a feared cartel leader in Ciudad Juarez, according to federal court records and trace documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The smugglers’ tactics — quickly moving the weapons far from ATF agents in southern Arizona, where it had been assumed they would circulate — vividly demonstrate that what had been viewed as a local problem was much larger. Six other Fast and Furious guns destined for El Paso were recovered in Columbus, N.M.

“These Fast and Furious guns were going to Sinaloans, and they are killing everyone down there,” said one knowledgeable U.S. government source, who asked for anonymity because of the ongoing investigations. “But that’s only how many we know came through Texas. Hundreds more had to get through.”

Meanwhile…

Newsmax is reporting on the increased calls for Holder’s head:

Pressure is intensifying rapidly for the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder over the fatally flawed Operation Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal — with Rep. Paul Gosar demanding that Holder quit immediately and Arizona sheriffs saying he should be fired if he won’t resign.
Gosar, an Arizona Republican, issued the call for Holder’s resignation on “Fox and Friends” today.

Meanwhile, Rep. Darrell Issa said on “Fox News Sunday” that his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee may issue subpoenas against top Justice Department officials as early as this week over the controversial Operation Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal. The California Republican indicated that some government actions in the Fast and Furious scheme of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) could have been felonious.

Arizona sheriffs would welcome such subpoenas, as they called Friday not only for Holder to step down or be fired but also for President Barack Obama to instigate an independent investigation into the controversy.

And U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, who has been dogging Fast and Furious along with Issa, maintains that Holder is stonewalling their investigations — and he’s tired of it. I always tell every agency . . . that I have been investigating, the longer you stonewall, when the truth comes out, the more egg you are going to have on your face,” the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee told Newsmax last week.

Added:

Via The Other McCain: Issa’s Appearance on Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace:

Key quote: “This  investigation is not about an operation that was supposed to trace guns – this is about the Justice Dept knowing (and this is where the American people have a right to know more) – knowing that these guns were deliberately intended to go into the hands of the gun cartels without any kind of traceability – except if you  find the gun at the scene of the crime. That is the reason that this is a felony stupid (and I use the word felony, deliberately) program.”

Understatement of the year: “This should be criminal to let criminals to have thousands of deadly weapons.”

See also:

Bob Owens of PJ Media dismantles Holder’s weak and pathetic Politico oped: Gunwalker: Punch-Drunk Eric Holder Swings Back at Critics, Hits Self:

Despite the continuing collapse of the attorney general’s defense — or perhaps in response to it — Holder went on offense late Friday with a scathing letter to the chairmen and ranking congressional committee heads investigating the scandal, seeking to both attack his critics and, incredibly, call for more gun control.

Holder’s ostensible excuse for attacking those trying to investigate his department — other than keeping himself out of prison — was to claim that he:

…could not sit idly by as a Majority Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform suggests, as happened this week, that law enforcement and government employees who dedicate their lives to protecting our citizens be considered “accessories to murder.”

Holder appears to have been passive-aggressively attacking Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, who repeated a similar claim Wednesday. Unfortunately for the embattled Holder, Gosar was only relaying the thoughts of his state’s law enforcement community. While Holder’s lawyers were vetting his letter for release, ten Arizona sheriffs — five Democrats and five Republicans — came together to call the gun-walking operations “a betrayal of state law enforcement.” The sheriffs demanded President Obama appoint a special counsel to investigate, and stated bluntly that Attorney General Holder should resign or be fired. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu stated:

We want to get to the bottom of this. One, to find out what truly happened, and two, to ensure this never happens again. This is not political. This is a public safety issue, this is a threat against our deputies and local officers, not only in Arizona but across the Southwest.

It was an earlier statement by Babeu and cited by Rep. Gosar that Holder criticized:

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu recently pointed out: “If somebody gives a gun to somebody knowing they’re going to commit murder, guess what we call them? … We call them accomplices.”

Holder no doubt chose to castigate the congressman instead of the front-line law enforcement officers who are our soldiers in this conflict against the very narco-terrorists Holder’s Department has allegedly armed in ten cities in five states with enough weapons to arm a U.S. Army division.

See also:

Jack Kelly of the Pittsburgh Post Gazete: Impeach Eric Holder

The attorney general has lied to Congress

It’s time for Congress to impeach Attorney General Eric Holder.

Congress may remove from office “all civil officers of the United States” if they are convicted of “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors,” the Constitution says (Article II, Section 4).

Only the House of Representatives can impeach, which is comparable to indictment. The official is then tried by the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is required for conviction.

The Constitution doesn’t say what constitutes “high crimes and misdemeanors,” but perjury surely is among them. So is obstruction of justice.

I’m for impeaching him, and then prosecuting him for his crimes.

Your Sunday Hymn: All Who Hunger

Just sang this one in church, this morning – it’s a good-un.

Here is  St. Mary’s Choir from La Crosse, Wisconsin, with pipe organ accompaniment doing  an excellent job on All Who Hunger by Sylvia Dunstan and Bob Moore.