Another Example of Obama's Justice Department

Another example of Obama's Eric Holder ran Justice Department's arrogant position of making up their own orules and breaking laws as they go.

Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico

ATF agent says "Fast and Furious" program let guns "walk" into hands of Mexican drug cartels with aim of tracking and breaking a big case

By Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News, March 3, 2011

WASHINGTON - Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do was beyond belief. He was intentionally letting guns go to Mexico ?

"Yes ma'am," Dodson told CBS News. "The agency was."

An Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, Dodson's job is to stop gun trafficking across the border. Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch it happen.

Investigators call the tactic letting guns "walk." In this case, walking into the hands of criminals who would use them in Mexico and the United States. Sharyl Attkisson's original "Gunrunner" report Center for Public Integrity report Dodson's bosses say that never happened. Now, he's risking his job to go public.

"I'm boots on the ground in Phoenix , telling you we've been doing it every day since I've been here," he said. "Here I am. Tell me I didn't do the things that I did. Tell me you didn't order me to do the things I did. Tell me it didn't happen. Now you have a name on it. You have a face to put with it. Here I am. Someone now, tell me it didn't happen."

Agent Dodson and other sources say the gun walking strategy was approved all the way up to the Justice Department. The idea was to see where the guns ended up, build a big case and take down a cartel. And it was all kept secret from Mexico .

ATF named the case "Fast and Furious."

Surveillance video obtained by CBS News shows suspected drug cartel suppliers carrying boxes of weapons to their cars at a Phoenix gun shop. The long boxes shown in the video being loaded in were AK-47-type assault rifles.

So it turns out ATF not only allowed it - they videotaped it.

Documents show the inevitable result: The guns that ATF let go began showing up at crime scenes in Mexico . And as ATF stood by watching thousands of weapons hit the streets... the Fast and Furious group supervisor noted the escalating Mexican violence.

One e-mail noted, "958 killed in March 2010 ... most violent month since 2005." The same e-mail notes: "Our subjects purchased 359 firearms during March alone," including "numerous Barrett .50 caliber rifles."

Dodson feels that ATF was partly to blame for the escalating violence in Mexico and on the border. "I even asked them if they could see the correlation between the two," he said. "The more our guys buy, the more violence we're having down there."

Senior agents including Dodson told CBS News they confronted their supervisors over and over. Their answer, according to Dodson, was, "If you're going to make an omelette, you've got to break some eggs."

There was so much opposition to the gun walking, that an ATF supervisor issued an e-mail noting a "schism" among the agents. "Whether you care or not people of rank and authority at HQ are paying close attention to this case...we are doing what they envisioned.... If you don't think this is fun you're in the wrong line of work... Maybe the Maricopa County jail is hiring detention officers and you can get $30,000 ... to serve lunch to inmates..."

"We just knew it wasn't going to end well. There's just no way it could," Dodson said.

On Dec. 14, 2010, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was gunned down. Dodson got the bad news from a colleague.

According to Dodson, "They said, 'Did you hear about the border patrol agent?' And I said, 'Yeah.' And they said 'Well it was one of the Fast and Furious guns.' There's not really much you can say after that." Two assault rifles ATF had let go nearly a year before were found at Terry's murder.

Dodson said, "I felt guilty. I mean it's crushing. I don't know how to explain it."

Sen. Grassley began investigating after his office spoke to Dodson and a dozen other ATF sources -- all telling the same story.

Read Sen. Grassley's letter to the attorney general. The response was "practically zilch," Grassley said. "From the standpoint that documents we want - we have not gotten them. I think it's a case of stonewalling."

Dodson said he hopes that speaking out helps Terry's family. They haven't been told much of anything about his murder - or where the bullet came from.

"First of all, I'd tell them that I'm sorry. Second of all, I'd tell them I've done everything that I can for them to get the truth," Dodson said. "After this, I don't know what else I can do. But I hope they get it."

Dodson said they never did take down a drug cartel. However, he said thousands of Fast and Furious weapons are still out there and will be claiming victims on both sides of the border for years to come.

Late tonight, the ATF said it will convene a panel to look into its national firearms trafficking strategy. But it refused to comment specifically on Sharyl's report.

Statement from Kenneth E. Melson, Acting Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives:

"The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will ask a multi-disciplinary panel of law enforcement professionals to review the bureau's current firearms trafficking strategies employed by field division managers and special agents. This review will enable ATF to maximize its effectiveness when undertaking complex firearms trafficking investigations and prosecutions. It will support the goals of ATF to stem the illegal flow of firearms to Mexico and combat firearms trafficking in the United States ."

The Obama/Holder Arrogant Practice of Justice,...Their Justice

The Obama Administration needs to pull their head out of their fourth point of contact on their idea of justice and obeying laws.

There were Black Panthers carrying billy clubs and intimidating voters in Philadelphia that Obama, and his Justice Department run by that clown Eric Holder, refused to prosecute. Where is the outrage over that? If it had been white intimidators and a white President, there would have been riots in the streets and Democrat legislators hitting the roof over it.

Then Obama sues Arizona over their immigration law, lawfully passed by their state legislators. Unbelievable!

More recently we have the Obama Administration, and his DOI Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, exceeding their authority and good common sense in putting a oil drilling ban in the Gulf, along the way destroying jobs and the local economy. When the ban is struck down and a Federal Judge holds the Administration in contempt for continuing the moratorium, it is ignored. Who holds the people at the highest level responsible when they flout the law? Ultimately the only way we have to hold them responsible will be the election in 2012.

Speaking on elections, you can see Obama gearing up for 2012 by pandering to his base in declaring that the Administration and the Justice Department would not uphold Federal law once again, this time in the instance of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas and 2008 Presidential candidate summed it up best when he said “ "The president has made an incredibly, amazing inexplicable political error. He is out of touch with the voters in every state in which this is on the ballot...Had he taken this position in the campaign, he might not have been elected. He supported traditional marriage with a man and woman in 2008. Either not being honest then or he's not being honest now. Or he changed his mind, and he needs to explain when and how that happened, and why." The answer is simple, he’s pandering to the extreme left.

And of course, you can dismiss the Jan 31, 2011 ruling by a federal judge who declared not just part but their entire national health care law is unconstitutional. Judge Roger Vinson declared Congress exceeded its authority by forcing Americans to buy health insurance. 26 states are party to this suit against the Federal government, by way of Democrats in the Senate and House who forced this unconstitutional monstrosity down the throats of the American people.

Sean Hannity vs. Muslim Cleric Anjem Choudary

Sean Hannity's telling interview of Iman Choudary on Feb 2nd, 2011. This should scare the western world. These radical islamists have one goal and that is Islamification and the introduction of Sharia across the world. Make no mistake about it. All means to accomplish this are on the table. With many in this country thinking or refering to the Muslim Brotherhood as a politcal group or freedom movement, thanks to the mainstream media, is at best stupid and at worst treasonous. Remember, the Muslim Brotherhood participated in the murder of Anwar Sadat in 1981.

Also remember, this Choudary mutt, proclaims that an Islamic flag will fly over the White House in our lifetime.

What kills me is that we can even talk about Sharia in this country as viable yet we have leftist idiots screaming if someone erects a cross about anywhere.