The fast & furiousgate

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The play of the republicans contains many risks
The fast & furiousgate
By: Carlos Damián July 4, 2012
The great hypocrisy among the republican and democratic politicians
México. - While the republican opposition affirms that the keys documents are decisive for the responsible ones and what the government's level in which they had knowledge on this operative special binational. The operation rushed by the Federal Agency for the Alcohol, the Tobacco and the Firearms (ATF) in intent of tracking the armament until heavy people inside the drug dealer cartels, it caused a great scandal in Mexico. The ATF lost the hint of several of those weapons and two of them they appeared in the scene of the American patrol border agent's Brian Terry murder in December of 2010, what untied the scandal and it took to the suspension of the program.

"The delivery of these documents goes down pressure to the Congress (…) it would have significant and disastrous consequences", says James Coles, assistant general district attorney, alleged in the letter sent the president of the committee of Supervision and it Reforms of the Chamber of Representatives, the republican Darrell Issa. This is the first time that Obama invoked its privileges inside an investigation of the Congress. His predecessor, George W. Bush, made it six times during his government. Holder affirms that had collaborated with the committee and that its office has surrendered more than 7 thousand 600 documents, and it even attended a meeting the night of Tuesday to try to reach an agreement that however failed.

The republicans whipped in hard terms to Holder that has testified until in nine opportunities in the Congress, and legislator Raul Labrador ended up affirming that the general district attorney should give up “to have deceived” to the committee. But the democrats defended Holder and they denounced “a hunt of witches” with political ends in this electoral year. As much the president as Holder affirms that the operative one ' Fast and Furious' was “plagued of errors” and they were not informed of the operation binational.

The American agency ATF
It is a bureaucratic organism that applies laws to take the control of weapons among others functions. The agency ATF is inside the Department of Justice, headed by a procurator, Eric Holder that is perceived as a dangerous " liberal " who works for the government of Obama that has been called by representative Issa who is the person that heads the investigation legislative of Fast and Furious as resident of the Committee of Supervision and Government Reformation, and according to Issa it is the most corrupt in the history of The States. It has been accused of contempt by 255 votes at favor and 67 in against.

This slow and silly operation that puts in risk the reelection of Obama was conceived in a principle like a campaign of fear in which the Mexicans are suspicious and dangerous individuals that steal and they kill in both sides of the frontier with reason of the traffic of drugs. On the other hand of the political handling of the republicans it is revealed in the basic fact that the legislators have only been focused on the traffic to Mexico of the two thousand weapons with this operation, but they never mention the dozens of thousands of weapons that cross practically unceasingly Mexico from The States. The Brady Campaign to Prevent the Violence with firearms, dedicated to promote the control of these assault weapons, points out that two thousand implied in this matter only represent 3 percent of the total of those that are acquired in The States going to Mexico. But the figures that it has ATF tell us that 68 thousand weapons have been recovered of criminal hands in Mexico.

There is a lot of political hypocrisy
This even campaign to prevent the violence asks us where it is the concern of the republicans for the other 97 percent of the weapons acquired in The States and transported Mexico. In the last four years. It also accuses the republicans of blocking the modest efforts of the government of Obama to stop the multiple purchases of semiautomatic weapons in the frontier without authorization of the ATF. "This it is the extreme hypocrisy. They get lost lives every day for the measures that these legislators rejected to take. “It is a shame", says Dan Gross of the Brady Campaign.

The scandal has been used for its private purposes as Wayne LaPierre, president of the National Association of the Rifle that has called to that happened with Fast and Furious “the biggest concealment from Watergate", while some legislators like senators Marco Rubio and John Cornyn, among others have called to the renouncement to procurator Holder. However some legislators suspect that behind this famous one operative there is a conspiracy against the government of Obama, among which we can mention to Issa and Grassley among other legislators that are left the inkwell. They have expressed that the operation failed on purpose, because its real objective was to generate more blood and violence linked with the American weapons, and with it, to justify and to promote measures of more control on weapons that this government wants, what is perceived by conservatives as intent of violating his constitutional rights to the weapons.

The focus in fact is to attack the president
But the main objective of this bankrupt operative one is that it is used against the government of Obama to attack it and to make it see weak and without image. However the republicans insist in that the only thing that they look for is a rendition of facts, and answers to their questions. The White House and the Department of Justice insist in that has fully cooperated with the investigation of the legislators. This bankrupt one operative it has put in the pillory to Eric Holder to the one who they try to give up to hurt politically Obama. (La Jornada, mundo, p.p. 33, June 25, 2012).