Fast and Furious continues

BY LEN TRIA, Uncommon Sense

Weapons lost during the failed "Fast and Furious" operation will continue to show up at crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico "for years to come." This amazing assertion was made by the top law enforcement official of the country — Attorney General Eric Holder.

In testimony before congressional committees investigating "Fast and Furious," Holder made these statements. However, he still has not disclosed what top officials knew of the program and endorsed it and how it was possible that he had no knowledge of it.

This kind of obscuring raises the credibility of the conspiracy bunch that this was a planned attack on the Second Amendment, trying to do what could not be done through the open congressional format of debate and transparency.

The plan being that if enough of the guns allowed to get into Mexico illegally were found at crime scenes, then there would be an outcry for stricter gun control in the U.S.

That make sense when you consider the people in the current administration and where their sympathies lie. We know that they couldn't get their way through the Congress so they decided to do an end run around Congress and do it by means of the disastrous "Fast and Furious" program.

Of course, they never expected that a federal agent would be killed by one of the "Fast and Furious" illegal guns.

When the investigation started, members of the agencies concerned acted as if they were in an alternative universe and didn't have any clue about the program. At one point the AG himself, when questioned about emails concerning the program, said that he didn't read all his emails. None of the agencies under the Justice Department initially claimed to know anything about the program or who was responsible for giving the OK to implement it.

Watching this from the sidelines does not give us much confidence in the administration or in the people working there. When asked about the difference between lying and misleading the Congress, Mr. Holder shot back the answer "the state of mind." Whether you lie or mislead, it is your state of mind that determines the difference between the two. The problem is the result is the same if you lie or deliberately mislead, the outcome is the same.

That's where this whole investigation has been taken by the people involved. They mislead or perhaps lie, but the result is still the same in that we haven't got the answer to the question: What did the Attorney General know and when did he know it? And further, the bigger question is what did the president know and when did he know about the "Fast and Furious" debacle? Did he know about it when he was meeting with the Mexican president and was decrying the fact that 90 percent of the guns used in Mexican crimes came from the U.S.?

However, he didn't say it was because of "Fast and Furious" that the guns got into Mexico in the first place.