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.
Quoting 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.
Quoting 1bluediamond: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 !
Damn, you beat me to it = )
Thank God......it's Friday!!!
Brownie was a fund raiser, unfortunetly all the elected officials in la were "publicly elected" and they were all democracts who didn't want no stinkin help from no george bush.
Quoting shimamab: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?
Quoting asfriend:
The facts are indisputable, only question is whose fingerprints are on the wrapper
Quoting 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.
You have proof that someone, according to you ObamaCo, intentionally allowed guns to be bought in Az and given/sold to gangsters or cartels?
Source please.
Thank God......it's Friday!!!
Yep but they still voted to hold him in contempt.
Quoting Friday:
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?
Quoting nanaofsix531:Yep but they still voted to hold him in contempt.
Quoting Friday:
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?
Anything to get Obama out of office even if it's fabricated bullshit, as it usually is.
Thank God......it's Friday!!!
And, yes, publicly funded elections would help. I didn't say "publicly elected"...they all are.
Time to scurry off and insult someone else...have fun.
Quoting asfriend:
Because public funding makes everything better - insert huge eye roll here
Brownie was a fund raiser, unfortunetly all the elected officials in la were "publicly elected" and they were all democracts who didn't want no stinkin help from no george bush.
Quoting shimamab: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?
You bet ya!
Quoting Friday:
Quoting nanaofsix531:Yep but they still voted to hold him in contempt.
Quoting Friday:
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?
Anything to get Obama out of office even if it's fabricated bullshit, as it usually is.
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 !
Hey Lady, Long time no see. Welcome back. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Thank God......it's Friday!!!
Judge refuses to stop Arizona from denying driver's licenses to immigrants
- blondekosmic15
on Jul. 3, 2012 at 3:56 PM