Is this the smoking gun?

During a Republican administration every little thing is questioned as to it’s “smoking gun” status. Nothing rose to smoking gun status in those years.  Now we have a smoking gun and it smouldered on the back burner of news stories unless you read the conservative blogs or news sources. Apparently it is so appalling that even CBS news is now on the story. (the link shows CBS  had a report on this in March, where is their outrage now that more has come out?)  I don’t know about the other national outlets.  I found this story on Pajama’s Media’s, written by Bob Owens.

Gunwalker: Details of Coverup Revealed

Emails reveal attempts to hide that Gunwalker guns were present at Brian Terry’s murder — within hours of Terry’s death.

Just days after Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Acting Director Ken Melson was forced into a make-work job at the Justice Department and long-time Janet Napolitano confidant U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke abruptly resigned, the investigation into Operation Fast and Furious rapidly gained momentum with evidence of a coverup instigated within hours of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s death.

Also, the Justice Department begrudgingly revealed that Fast and Furious guns were recovered at the scene of more than twice as many violent crimes as they has originally told congressional investigators.

And in the latest bombshell, emails reveal that the White House had indeed been briefed directly about Operation Fast and Furious while the operation was still walking thousands of guns to the Sinaloa cartel.

Read the whole thing at Pajamas Media.

The Washington Post is covering this in the politics section.  I remember everything Republicans did screaming in headlines asking for a special prosecutor. I don’t see it in this article. Read this article and try to convince me this news outlet is trying to play down any administration involvement.

White House e-mails refer to gun-trafficking operation

Newly released e-mails in the controversy over the Fast and Furious gun-trafficking operation show that the program had been mentioned to a White House official, but the un­or­tho­dox tactics used by federal agents were not revealed in the documents.
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The e-mails reveal that William Newell, former head of the Phoenix office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, briefed Kevin O’Reilly on the Obama administration’s broader operations against Mexican gun traffickers. O’Reilly, a State Department official who had been detailed to the National Security Council at the White House, then shared the information with two other officials, including Dan Restrepo, President Obama’s senior adviser on Latin America.

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The e-mails “validate what we’ve said all along: that no one at the White House knew about the investigative tactics used in this operation, let alone letting anyone walk guns,’’ said a senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal communications.

Yet the disclosure of even peripheral White House involvement in the Fast and Furious imbroglio could ratchet up political pressure on the administration from congressional Republicans.

This is beginning to look very Nixonian, or possibly Iran Contra,  deniability is built in. Can you say Special Prosecutor?  I can.

This is an operation in which Americans were killed with those guns along with all the Mexican nationals killed in the drug slaughter and carnage across the border. They have found those guns linked to 42 crime scenes. The Pajamas Media article says this “The DOJ originally claimed that Fast and Furious weapons had been recovered at 11 crime scenes in the United States, but a Fox News investigation now reveals that a total of 42 Fast and Furious weapons were recovered at those crime scenes. Revised DOJ figures now also admit that an additional 21 Fast and Furious guns were tracked to violent crimes in Mexico.”

Again I say SPECIAL PROSECUTOR.