{"id":9366,"date":"2011-04-20T14:37:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T18:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2011-04-20T14:37:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T18:37:32","slug":"obamas-iran-contra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9366\/obamas-iran-contra\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Iran-Contra?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/04\/20\/obama-snubs-issa-on-subpoena-for-atf-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Daily Caller<\/em><\/a> reports that House Government Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is being ignored by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) in his demand for documents pertaining to two ATF initiatives: Operation Gunrunner, and Project Fast &amp; Furious.<\/p>\n<p>No, I\u2019m not making this up.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the thinking behind Operation Gunrunner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026ATF allowed American guns to be smuggled into Mexico and sold to Mexican drug cartels. The goal of the program was to track the illegal weapons and drug markets after they were used in crimes and abandoned using ballistics information and serial numbers for the guns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Operation Gunrunner is gaining particular notoriety on Capitol Hill because of the connection between tracked guns and American deaths.\u00a0 William LaJeunesse of <em>Fox News<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/03\/09\/project-gun-runner-scandal-border\/ \" target=\"_blank\">reported in March<\/a> that a Gunrunner firearm was linked to the killing of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) complained of \u201cgetting the runaround\u201d from the Department of Justice on its partnership with ATF on Gunrunner.\u00a0 The Department of Homeland Security has also been tied to the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder.\u00a0 Whoever thought it would be a neat idea to intentionally sell weapons to drug lords and follow the mayhem should at least be hauled in for a congressional hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) won\u2019t allow Grassley to post the latter\u2019s extensive documentation of the operation and cover-up, nor will he commence an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Darrell Issa.\u00a0 In his fight for more transparency from the Obama Administration, Issa may have found an <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2011\/04\/19\/project-gunrunner-update-atf-ignored-warnings-doj-ignores-document-requests\/\" target=\"_blank\">out-of-control operation<\/a> linked directly to deaths stemming from Mexico\u2019s undeclared civil war.<\/p>\n<p>If the revelations about Operation Gunrunner continue their trajectory, it may not be long before commentators see Iran-Contra in a new light.\u00a0 At least then the federal government was trying to free hostages while supporting anti-Marxist guerillas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Caller reports that House Government Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is being ignored by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) in his demand for documents pertaining to two ATF initiatives: Operation Gunrunner, and Project Fast &amp; Furious. No, I\u2019m not making this up.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the thinking behind Operation Gunrunner: \u2026ATF allowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2613,143,475,351,150,902,1453,2199,2611,1304,2612,497],"class_list":["post-9366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-atf","tag-barack-obama","tag-chuck-grassley","tag-corruption","tag-darrell-issa","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-department-of-justice","tag-drug-cartel","tag-iran-contra","tag-mexico","tag-operation-gunrunner","tag-patrick-leahy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9370,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366\/revisions\/9370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}