Lid Ready to Blow on Obama Regime’s Mexican Gunrunning Scandal

Obama is shoving ATF chief Kenneth Melson under the bus in an attempt to avoid accepting responsibility for the appalling federal scheme to facilitate the smuggling by Mexican criminals of American weapons. Will it be enough? Darrell Issa doesn’t think so:

A spokesman for House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa told The Daily Caller the congressman expects his investigations into the Justice Department’s gun walking programs to point to a much higher political appointee than acting ATF director Kenneth Melson. Melson is widely expected to resign some time in the next couple of days in the face of political pressure from Issa’s investigations into Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast Furious.

Even if Melson resigns, Issa spokesman Frederick Hill said the Committee expects to find much more and continue with investigations. “The investigations are far from over,” Hill told TheDC. “It’s quite certain that Kenneth Melson was not the principal architect of this plan nor was he the only high-ranking official who knew about and authorized this operation.”

If anything could be more appalling than the fact that these guns have gotten Americans killed, it could only be the Obama Regime’s apparent motive:

ATF Agent John Dodson, testifying in front of the committee, said that in his entire law enforcement career, he had “never been involved in or even heard of an operation in which law enforcement officers let guns walk.” He continued: “I cannot begin to think of how the risk of letting guns fall into the hands of known criminals could possibly advance any legitimate law enforcement interest.”

The obvious answer is that Gunwalker’s objective was never intended to be a “legitimate law enforcement interest.” Instead, it appears that ATF Acting Director Ken Melson and Department of Justice senior executives specifically created an operation that was designed from the outset to arm Mexican narco-terrorists and increase violence substantially along both sides of the Southwest border.

Success was measured not by the number of criminals being incarcerated, but by the number of weapons transiting the border and the violence those weapons caused. An ATF manager was “delighted” when Gunwalker guns started showing up at drug busts. It would be entirely consistent with this theory if DOJ communications reflected the approval of the ATF senior officials they were colluding with — but as we know, Holder’s Department of Justice refuses to cooperate.

At the same time in 2009 that federal law enforcement agencies (the ATF, the DOJ, and presumably Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security) were creating the operation that led to the executive branch being the largest gun smuggler in the Southwest, the president’s team was crafting the rhetoric to sell the crisis they were creating.

On television, in various news outlets, and even in a joint appearance with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Obama pushed the 90 percent lie, implying that 90% of the guns recovered in Mexican cartel violence came from U.S. gun shops.

At the same time they were damning gun dealers in public, the administration was secretly forcing them to provide weapons to the cartels, by the armful and without oversight. More than one gun industry insider suggests that the administration extorted cooperation and silence from these gun shops. As the ATF has the power to summarily shut dealers down for the most minor of offenses, that is very, very possible.

The purpose was to create leverage to use against the Second Amendment. That is, our rulers facilitated the smuggling in an attempt to cause mayhem that could be used to attack the constitutional liberties they have sworn to uphold. “You never want a serious crisis go to waste,” said Obama henchman Rahm Emanuel. If the crisis isn’t there, make it.

Obviously this dwarfs Watergate. Good thing for the Community Organizer in Chief that he’s still got the media that installed him in power on his side. But then, the media tried to suppress MonicaGate in the beginning. Sooner or later, reality has to be acknowledged.

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Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, killed with an assist from the Obama Regime.

On a tip from SR. Hat tip: Hot Air. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

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