And the fireworks continue….
By Abraxas
Posted on July 8, 2011
Update: Above Top Secret has more links and information and Randy’s Right
Two reporters now claim there is a second version of “Fast and Furious” – only the new one is called “Operation Castaway”. Just like the first one, it’s also being run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”) – but instead of being located inPhoenix,Arizona, it’s now headquartered inTampa,Florida. And instead of walking guns intoMexico, this new version is walking illegal firearms into theHonduras!
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/07/breaking-news-source-claims-atfs-tampa.html
Though the guns procured in “Operation Castaway” were initially “walked” to the Honduras, those weapons didn’t stay there. Instead, they were “smuggled through Honduras and other Central and South American countries before being used in violent crimes in Mexico and other countries in the region. A number of the firearms trafficked by the defendants in Operation Castaway have been linked to violent crimes around the world.”
This new version was reported on last September 2010 by Brian Albritton, the US Attorney for the Middle District of Florida. At that time, he proudly announced the assistance of Virginia O’Brien, Special Agent in Charge of the central and northern Florida Bureau of ATF operations.
Though Albritton may claim ignorance of what those guns were doing, poor old O’Brien hasn’t that luxury. You see, before she transferred to Florida, she first worked as an ATF agent in Phoenix, Arizona(you know, the city that ran “Fast and Furious”). And by strange coincidence, her new cityof Tampa, Floridais “walking” guns to Hondurasby using the “same failed strategy as the Phoenix Field Division’s”. It gets worse. Apparently O’Brien has left a trail of emails in which she evidently tried to cover up her deeds by advising others they didn’t have to report their “walked guns” on the technicality that Tampa Field Division isn’t part of the Southwest Border or Project Gunrunner. Those emails could be a teensy problem; and, by golly, the “first person source” informing the reporters seems to agree. As that individual crudely phrases it, O’Brien “is sh*tting herself trying to cover it up.”
The reason for her incontinence may be the minor fact that all of this has now been disclosed to Chairman Darrell Issa of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Ranking Senate Judiciary Committee Member Charles Grassley for follow-up and investigation.
Isn’t that special?
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