[Amerika]

Originally Posted by Scofflaw

Can we save the conspiracy stuff for the appropriate forum, please. If there's evidence, produce evidence - if there isn't, save the fantasy politics for the CT forum.

As you typed this comment in bold, and it wasn’t April Fools day, I must assume you aren’t kidding.

I highly doubt the Senate Judiciary Committee considers this to be merely "fantacy politics" or "conspiracy stuff."

I’ll try and keep this simple… I don’t believe my statement "Fast and Furious hasn’t turned out so well in what appeared to be his efforts (referring to the Obama administration) to restrict Second Amendment rights." differs all that much from high ranking US government officials, therefore in my opinion should not to be considered conspiracy stuff:
　

On July 12, 2011, Sen. Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., wrote Attorney General Eric Holder, whose Justice Department oversees ATF. They asked Holder whether officials in his agency discussed how "Fast and Furious could be used to justify additional regulatory authorities." So far, they have not received a response. CBS News asked the Justice Department for comment and context on ATF emails about Fast and Furious and Demand Letter 3, but officials declined to speak with us.

"In light of the evidence, the Justice Department's refusal to answer questions about the role Operation Fast and Furious was supposed to play in advancing new firearms regulations is simply unacceptable," Rep. Issa told CBS News.

　
　

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is leading the Senate’s investigation into Operation Fast and Furious. In a recent interview with CNSNews.com he said he does not know definitively if there was a political motivation for launching the operation, but he suspects there was.

"My suspicion is they [Obama administration] don’t like the Second Amendment the way it is, and they are going to do everything to hurt guns and restrict guns," Grassley told CNSNews.com. "So they could have been building a case for that. But I can’t prove that."

Hence the investigation!

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And in a round of hearing investigations of Operation Fast and Furious through the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, Representative James Lankford (R-Okla.) attended and went on to say he thinks responsibility for the matter will ultimately fall on the Obama administration.

"There’s no way they couldn’t have known this," said Lankford in reference to the senior personnel responsible for overseeing the ATF and its operations. "The facts just scream – even the Democrats -- in the hearing before were somewhat protecting the administration -- [are] now saying, ‘Who knew? When did they know? How did this get approved?’ Everything about this smells really bad."

"I mean, it’s going to end up on the administration’s desk," he said. "Somebody at DOJ had to sign off. There’s too much money involved in the process of these weapons getting out there and there’s too much clandestine operations that have to be tracked -- all those things have to be approved up the food chain. So it went through the food chain and it went up very close to the top, the top of DOJ. Someone was tracking this."

"This thing, the more it unfolds, the worse it smells," he said.　

　
Rep. James Lankford went on to say that some lawmakers are using information from that program to start restricting our Second Amendment rights.
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