Blood Money: Obama Contributor Ran Fast and Furious
Scandal: A campaign contributor who was an architect of the 1994 assault weapons ban was the mastermind behind the Fast and Furious operation that let guns walk into Mexico, including those that killed two U.S. agents.
Shortly after the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry on Dec. 15, 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder's deputy chief of staff, Monty Wilkinson, received an email from U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke telling him just that:
"The guns found in the desert near the murder(ed) BP officer connect back to the investigation we were going to talk about — they were AK-47s purchased at a Phoenix gun store."
It is an email that helps demonstrate that Holder, despite his congressional testimony — as vague, contradictory and misleading as it was — could not have been ignorant about Fast and Furious and its deadly consequences.
It also brings to light the name of Dennis Burke, a seldom-mentioned Obama campaign donor who oversaw Fast and Furious and helped convert it from a gun-interdiction to a gun-walking program.
Burke, who resigned shortly after the scandal became public, has long been a gun-ban architect for the Democratic Party.
As a lawyer for the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was behind the ineffectual 1994 "assault weapon" ban that sunset in 2004. Burke was also the chief of staff for Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano for a number of years before she became the secretary of homeland security.
Former Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz., had high praise for Burke's 1994 effort: "Dennis had all these pictures of these guns — the street sweepers and the AK-47s. And it passed by one vote. A lot of it was not my eloquence on the bill; it was stuff that Dennis had done."
Burke also is an Obama donor, a prime consideration in the staffing of the Obama administration. Federal Election Commission records show that on Jan. 9, 2008, while working for Napolitano, Burke contributed $2,000 to Sen. Barack Obama's presidential primary campaign. Since 1997, according to FEC records, Burke has given $16,350 to Democratic candidates.
Burke would leave that Gov. Napolitano post to join the Obama transition team. He was soon rewarded for his many contributions, monetary and otherwise, when on July 10, 2009, the president nominated him to be the U.S. attorney in Arizona. The Senate confirmed him that Sept. 15.
In July 2010, Burke told the Arizona Capitol Times there had "clearly been direction provided already by President Obama and Attorney General Holder as to what they want to be doing."
That's an interesting statement, considering what Burke would do and how Holder and Obama would claim they were out of the operational loop.
As Fred Lucas notes in his excellent documentation for CNSnews.com of Burke's record, six weeks after Burke was confirmed, he was named to the attorney general's advisory committee of U.S. attorneys with a specific responsibility to report to Deputy Attorney General David Ogden on border and immigration enforcement.
Ogden's office made a significant change in the federal government's strategy on Fast and Furious. "This new strategy directed federal law enforcement to shift its focus away from seizing firearms from criminals and focus instead on identifying members of trafficking networks," House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa wrote in a May 3 memo to other members of his committee.
Burke oversaw this new strategy, which let guns walk into Mexico and into the hands of the drug cartels. The result was the killing of U.S. agents Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata.
The stench from all this arguably reaches all the way to the Oval Office.
This isn't really a big deal because this is how the game is played. It's not your qualifications that get you a job, it's the contributions or your connection to the contributions.
It's called Pay to Play
Both parties do it. Wasn't the head of FEMA a GW buddy when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans?
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Quoting PeeperSqueak:Thank you for the post Blonde : ) we're getting to the nitty gritty now and the BO administration is getting all the more desperate as thier being corrupt is getting exposed !
Thats weird
Quoting erika9009:This isn't really a big deal because this is how the game is played. It's not your qualifications that get you a job, it's the contributions or your connection to the contributions.
It's called Pay to Play
Both parties do it. Wasn't the head of FEMA a GW buddy when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans?
It's true what you are saying ! Hopefully there will be more people opening their eyes. As time goes on....it's looking like he's getting more desperate.
Quoting asfriend:
I hate to be a broken record, he has always been corrupt, it has always been exposed, and those predisposed to excusing him will always excuse him.
Quoting PeeperSqueak:Thank you for the post Blonde : ) we're getting to the nitty gritty now and the BO administration is getting all the more desperate as thier being corrupt is getting exposed !
Publicly funded elections would reduce these practices. While I don't think either dude intended to cause the damage they did, picking donors instead of the most qualified people ended up costing human lives :(
Quoting erika9009:This isn't really a big deal because this is how the game is played. It's not your qualifications that get you a job, it's the contributions or your connection to the contributions.
It's called Pay to Play
Both parties do it. Wasn't the head of FEMA a GW buddy when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans?
In July 2010, Burke told the Arizona Capitol Times there had "clearly been direction provided already by President Obama and Attorney General Holder as to what they want to be doing."
As Fred Lucas notes in his excellent documentation for CNSnews.com of Burke's record, six weeks after Burke was confirmed, he was named to the attorney general's advisory committee of U.S. attorneys with a specific responsibility to report to Deputy Attorney General David Ogden on border and immigration enforcemen
This has been very well organized..
Senator Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ) credited Burke and Rahm Emmanuel with fostering and getting the 1994 Assault Weapon Ban passed.[3] In early August 2011, just before resigning as U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, Burke (according to Phoenix police records) struck 67-year-old Robert Maresco, who was walking the street in an unmarked crosswalk. Burke was not cited in the accident. Officers estimated that he was traveling at about 30 miles per hour, under the posted limit of 35 mph., and the police report suggests that he did not show any signs of impairment. Mr. Maresco is a Phoenix-based certified public accountant/financial planner well known for his involvement in various community activities. Mr. Maresco was hospitalized at St. Joseph's Neuro Rehabilitation Center for two months.
The family of slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry charged that Mr. Burke, then US Attorney for the District of Arizona, lied to them about the guns found at the crime scene in an attempt to hide the weapons' connection to the ATF's failed Fast and Furious gun sales operation. Terry was killed in December 2010, allegedly by Mexican bandits carrying at least two AK-47 semiautomatic rifles that had been purchased in Arizona as part of Fast and Furious. The operation was intended to catch drug lords using illegal weapons, but the ATF immediately lost track of 1,700 firearms. The Terry family alleged that then-U.S. Atty. Dennis K. Burke told them last March that the two weapons came from a store in Texas and were not part of Fast and Furious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_K._Burke
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Quoting PeeperSqueak:Thank you for the post Blonde : ) we're getting to the nitty gritty now and the BO administration is getting all the more desperate as thier being corrupt is getting exposed !
Quoting nanaofsix531:I don't believe anything that the criminal Issa is involved in.Once I saw his name I knew it was BS.
Quoting blondekosmic15:
Quoting nanaofsix531:
By the headline I thought you were talking about Robme.Go figure.
Not surprising nana you are silent about this issue facing our Nation~
I have nothing nice to say about Issa and don't believe anything he says. Power hungry putz.
Didn't he change his tune and say now he doesn't believe Holder knew or was involved?
Thank God......it's Friday!!!
Quoting jcribb16:It's a shame, instead of discussing your post here, that the Obama supporters simply deflect and must find blame to lie on the other candidate. If that's the case, they should go make their own threads about their deflections, and then discuss this topic.
This is just another reason why I do not care nor support the current administration. The more that comes out, the worse it is - you would think people would have enough of seeing what their "man" and "his people" are doing. But then, it does make me wonder - maybe they approve of all of these shenanigans and that's why they hardly ever come down on their "man?"
I'm not convinced Obama or his people are doing what the Right claims they are, in this case.
Thank God......it's Friday!!!
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