Gun Used in Paris Terrorist Attacks Linked to Obama Admin Gun-Walking Program?

Just when the Obama administration and the ATF thought that Operation Fast and Furious was a distant memory, the failed gun walking program sneaks back into the news ....

JW reports:

One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks came from Phoenix, Arizona where the Obama administration allowed criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally in a deadly and futile “gun-walking” operation known as “Fast and Furious.”  

A Report of Investigation (ROI) filed by a case agent in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) tracked the gun used in the Paris attacks to a Phoenix gun owner who sold it illegally, “off book,” Judicial Watch’s law enforcement sources confirm. Federal agents tracing the firearm also found the Phoenix gun owner to be in possession of an unregistered fully automatic weapon, according to law enforcement officials with firsthand knowledge of the investigation. 

The investigative follow up of the Paris weapon consisted of tracking a paper trail using a 4473 form, which documents a gun’s ownership history by, among other things, using serial numbers. The Phoenix gun owner that the weapon was traced back to was found to have at least two federal firearms violations—for selling one weapon illegally and possessing an unregistered automatic—but no enforcement or prosecutorial action was taken against the individual. 

Instead, ATF leaders went out of their way to keep the information under the radar and ensure that the gun owner’s identity was “kept quiet,” according to law enforcement sources involved with the case. “Agents were told, in the process of taking the fully auto, not to anger the seller to prevent him from going public,” a veteran law enforcement official told Judicial Watch. 

It’s not clear if the agency, which is responsible for cracking down on the illegal use and trafficking of firearms, did this because the individual was involved in the Fast and Furious gun-running scheme .. . . . . . 

Background and the deadly consequences of Operation Fast and Furious.




The Obama administration's plan REQUIRED a body count to further their agenda.

Feds Hand Over ‘Fast & Furious’ Docs as House Appeals for More

After years of legal wrangling and delays over the release of documents about a secret government program that this administration says they weren't even involved with..... Obama finally releases them. . .  The program was used to arm the Sinaloa Drug Cartel in Mexico with weapons from the United States. The violence in Mexico would be blamed on traceable American weapons and mentioned in a new push for an 'assault weapons' ban and more gun control...   The Hill reports....

Feds hand over ‘Fast and Furious’ docs as House appeals for more

By Julian Hattem - 04/08/16 05:31 PM EDT

The Obama administration on Friday handed House Republicans reams of documents about the controversial “Fast and Furious” gunrunning operation even as lawmakers appealed their case to seek additional records. 

After a long court case, the Department of Justice (DOJ) complied with a federal district judge's order that rejected the administration’s assertion of executive privilege over documents describing the botched operation.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the Oversight Committee, called the records “critical" to his panel's work. 

“The committee has a duty to understand and shine light on what was happening inside DOJ during the time of this irresponsible operation. Yet DOJ has obstructed our investigative work for years,” Chaffetz said in a statement Friday. 

“The committee, however, is entitled to the full range of documents for which it brought this lawsuit,” Chaffetz added. “Accordingly, we have appealed the District Court’s ruling in order to secure those additional documents.” 

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), head of the Judiciary Committee, also called for the release of the remaining documents. 

“Given that even after years of stonewalling these are only a fraction of the documents that were subpoenaed by the House of Representatives, at this point, the usefulness remains to be seen," Grassley said in a statement. "I look forward to seeing what was actually produced, and what President Obama continues to refuse to be transparent about. It shouldn't have taken a lengthy court battle to get this far. The rest of the documents should be turned over so that the litigation can end and the American people can know the whole truth.” 

The release of documents to the House panel narrowly met the Friday afternoon deadline imposed by a January court order dismissing the Obama administration’s executive privilege argument. 

In a letter to the committee, Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik indicated that the Obama administration wanted to put the matter behind it. 

“[I]n light of the passage of time and other considerations, such as the department’s interests in moving past this litigation and building upon our cooperative working relationship with the committee other congressional committees, the department has decided that it is not in the executive branch’s interest to continue litigating this issue at this time,” Kadzik wrote. 

Separate from the ruling on the executive privilege claim, the committee appealed other aspects of Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s decision, which kept documents about the Fast and Furious operation under wraps for other reasons. 

Kadzik appeared to dispute the claim in his letter, saying that the material handed over by the Justice Department “fully satisfies the committee’s interest” in the issue. 

The decision to hand over documents amounts to an admission of failure for the administration, which had long insisted that many of the records were not eligible for Congress's oversight.
In 2012, House Republicans sued to obtain documents about the operation after first voting to hold then-Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for refusing to hand them over.

The widely derided Fast and Furious program ran from 2009 to 2011 as a plan to track guns by purposely allowing them to move from low-level buyers up through Mexican drug cartels.

Many of the weapons eventually turned up in the hands of cartel members. One was at the site of a 2010 shootout that left a U.S. Border Patrol agent dead. Another was found in the hideout used by Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán before his arrest in January.

In fact, Obama always lies about Operation Fast and Furious too....

Assailant in Garland TX Attack Bought Gun in 2010 Under Operation Fast & Furious

The Obama administration has received little scrutiny from the left-leaning main stream media and Operation Fast and Furious is just another example.  This gun-walking operation only came to light after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed by one of the guns from this failed and intentionally flawed operation. Now the program is in the news, yet again. The timeline of the  'discovery' is as follows:

This administration's stonewalling, denials and outright lies led to Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder being  held in contempt of Congress.  In Fact, Barack Obama was willing to repeat lies about the gun-walking program that armed the Mexican Sinaloa Drug Cartel, among others, with 'assault weapons' . Now this program is in the news again after the Islamic terror attack on a cartoon contest in Texas. The mention of Operation Fast and Furious always fails to address these questions. Why weren't the guns tracked;? What purpose did that really serve?  Why was the failed program covered-up and lied about ? The story about the attacker and his purchase are reported as follows in this excerpt from the Chicago Tribune. 

Assailant in Garland TX Attack Bought Gun in 2010 Under Operation Fast & Furious

Five years before he was shot to death in the failed terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, Nadir Soofi walked into a suburban Phoenix gun shop to buy a 9-millimeter pistol. 

At the time, Lone Wolf Trading Co. was known among gun smugglers for selling illegal firearms. And with Soofi's history of misdemeanor drug and assault charges, there was a chance his purchase might raise red flags in the federal screening process. 

Inside the store, he fudged some facts on the form required of would-be gun buyers.
What Soofi could not have known was that Lone Wolf was at the center of a federal sting operation known as Fast and Furious, targeting Mexican drug lords and traffickers. The idea of the secret program was to allow Lone Wolf to sell illegal weapons to criminals and straw purchasers, and track the guns back to large smuggling networks and drug cartels. 

Intentions of the program were to help arm a chosen cartel and to help push gun control in the U.S. 

Instead, federal agents lost track of the weapons and the operation became a fiasco, particularly after several of the missing guns were linked to shootings in Mexico and the 2010 killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Arizona. 

Soofi's attempt to buy a gun caught the attention of authorities, who slapped a seven-day hold on the transaction, according to his Feb. 24, 2010, firearms transaction record, which was reviewed by the Los Angeles Times. Then, for reasons that remain unclear, the hold was lifted after 24 hours, and Soofi got the 9-millimeter. 

As the owner of a small pizzeria, the Dallas-born Soofi, son of a Pakistani American engineer and American nurse, would not have been the primary focus of federal authorities, who back then were looking for smugglers and drug lords. 

He is now. 

In May, Soofi and his roommate, Elton Simpson, burst upon the site of a Garland cartoon convention that was offering a prize for the best depiction of the prophet Muhammad, something offensive to many Muslims. Dressed in body armor and armed with three pistols, three rifles and 1,500 rounds of ammunition, the pair wounded a security officer before they were killed by local police.

A day after the attack, the Department of Justice sent an "urgent firearms disposition request" to Lone Wolf, seeking more information about Soofi and the pistol he bought in 2010, according to a June 1 letter from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, to U.S. Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch. 

Though the request did not specify whether the gun was used in the Garland attack, Justice Department officials said the information was needed "to assist in a criminal investigation," according to Johnson's letter, also reviewed by The Times.

The FBI so far has refused to release any details, including serial numbers, about the weapons used in Garland by Soofi and Simpson. Senate investigators are now pressing law enforcement agencies for answers, raising the chilling possibility that a gun sold during the botched Fast and Furious operation ended up being used in a terrorist attack against Americans.

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'El Chapo' Guzman has since escaped, but this video details Op. Fast & Furious and the players.

The ATF admits that the body count will continue to increase for the next decade, but when will this administration be held accountable for this murder and mayhem caused by their desire to help the Sinaloa Cartel while attacking the 2nd Amendment in the United States ?

White House And DOJ Colluded With CBS To Silence Reporter

Email Proves That White House And DOJ Colluded With CBS To Silence Sharyl Attkisson

A document obtained by Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act request proves that Justice Department colluded with the White House and CBS to silence a Sharyl Attkisson investigation into Fast and Furious, and a negative piece about Rep. Darryl Issa by then National Journal Reporter Susan Davis was actually planted by the DOJ.

Judicial Watch announced Thursday that it received from the Obama Department of Justice a treasure trove of documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious. The documents were forced out of the Obama administration through a June 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and subsequent September 2012 FOIA lawsuit.

Our initial review of the documents shows the DOJ and White House targeted then-CBS journalist Sharyl Attkisson :
On October 4, 2011, Holder’s top press aide Tracy Schmaler tells White House Deputy Press Sectary Eric Schultz, “I’m also calling Sharryl’s [sic] editor and reaching out to Scheiffer. She’s out of control”

Schultz responded, “Good. Her piece was really bad for the AG.”

Schultz also detailed to Schmaler that he was working with a journalist (Susan Davis, formerly of the National Journal) to target Rep. Darryl Issa (R-CA), the House Republican leading the charge on Fast and Furious:

“And I sent NJ’s Susan Davis your way. She’s writing on Issa/FandF and I said you could load her up on the leaks, etc.”

(Davis authored a critical profile of Issa a few weeks later.)

This one email chain implicates both the Obama White House and the Department of Justice in an effort to secretly undermine a congressional investigation and to suppress critical media reporting of the Obama administration. No wonder Obama waited until after he was safely reelected (and even after this year’s elections) to finally release this material that documents obstruction and abuse at the highest levels

 More on Operation Fast and Furious, the Coverup and LIES by the Obama Administration :






Previous blogs on Fast and Furious:
Leftist Media Supports the Fast and Furious Coverup
Obama & the Leftist LIARS Have ZERO Credibility on Gun Control

Billionaire Bloomberg Funds Another New Anti-Gun Group

Nanny state billionaire Michael Bloomberg is back with another gun control / gun banning group. Now that he isn't a mayor anymore, the previous group Mayors Against Illegal Guns merged with Mom's Demand Action. With at least $50 million more to spend on anti-gun propaganda and astroturf activists, Bloomberg and his leftist control freaks will saturate the media with their misinformation, hysterics and outright lies. First, an excepted article from McClatchy DC.


New group aims to curb gun violence

BY DAVID LIGHTMAN
McClatchy Washington BureauApril 16, 2014

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/04/16/224575/new-group-aims-to-curb-gun-violence.html?sp=%2F99%2F200%2F365%2F#storylink=cpy

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Backed with millions of dollars and potentially millions of supporters, a new group aiming to curb gun violence will launch Wednesday. 

Everytown for Gun Safety will include Mayors Against Illegal Guns, founded by former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and former Boston Mayor Tom Menino, and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a grassroots movement of mothers. 

That group was founded the day after the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
According to a press release, "Everytown will ask Americans to join the fight to reduce the gun violence that kills 86 Americans every day and affects every town – big cities and small towns alike. This means continuing to press for change in Washington and moving beyond Congress to bring the fight for common-sense gun policies to state capitols, corporate boards, and state and federal elections – fields of play formerly occupied almost solely by the gun lobby." 

Backers plan to support candidates and bills promoting their efforts. Bloomberg told the New York Times he plans to spend at least $50 million "s educational and advocacy efforts and through personal expenditures," the group's statement said. 

More from the release: 

"At the events, Everytown will launch the ‘Gun Sense Voter’ campaign that, for the first time, will mobilize one million voters to support leaders and laws that promote gun safety. Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, the group’s advocacy arm, will also issue candidate questionnaires and announce candidate scorecards to guide its supporters and the public in state and federal elections in November. The Action Fund will also form a separate, supporter-funded political action committee." 

The article ends with this classic line: 

The group has an uphill battle; gun control legislation has gone nowhere in this Congress, and prospects remain dim.

What did we get the last time around with Bloomberg and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America?

Do we really need more gun control with declining gun homicides?

Why doesn't an article on gun control mention that fact? First, from Pew:
Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware

And this inconvenient truth:
Homicide rates have dropped steadily in U.S.

The national homicide rate for 2011 was 4.8 per 100,000 citizens — less than half of what it was in the early years of the Great Depression, when it peaked before falling precipitously before World War II. The peak in modern times of 10.2 was in 1980, as recorded by national criminal statistics.
“We’re at as low a place as we’ve been in the past 100 years,” says Randolph Roth, professor of history at Ohio State University and author of this year’s “American Homicide,” a landmark study of the history of killing in the United States. “The rate oscillates between about 5 and 9 [per 100,000], sometimes a little higher or lower, and we’re right at the bottom end of that oscillation.”
Last year’s rate was the lowest of any year since 1963, when the rate was 4.6, according to the Uniform Crime Reports compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Maybe the control freaks on the left mean mass killings like at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton?


The left is pushing unneeded and ineffective gun control by any means necessary. Failing to mention Operation Fast and Furious and the Obama Administration basically arming the Mexican Drug Cartels with 'assault weapons' is another curious fact that is always omitted by the Main Stream Media. when discussing gun control. The Obama Administration then used increasing violence in Mexico to call for more gun control in the United States.

Fast and Furious is tied to the deaths of Border Agent Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexican citizens. With a few thousand Fast and Furious weapons in circulation, the death toll with continue to climb for decades.Learn more about Fast and Furious in the following videos.



And more background on Operation Fast and Furious


Corruption, cover-ups  and outright lies are the legacy of the Obama administration, all aided by a complicit and compliant media.  The Democrat party's quest for power and control 'by any means necessary' has an ever  increasing body count and the 2nd amendment and it's supporters are their next intended victims.