Fortune makes Dodson out to be a lose cannon and the agent in charge a hapless victim. As it turns, the hapless victim/hero in the Fortune article is facing criminal charges -- conveniently neglected in the article. Why do that? Look no further than the articles author, Katherine Eban, Journo-List member.
Eban says that only Dodson walked guns with a single operation for which he procured $2,500 of ATF funds. But given the ATF has acknowledged a minimum of 1,700 guns walked into Mexico, that would have to be one incredible gun buying spree on Dodson's part or Eban is flat out MAKING THIS SHIT UP.
Both NRO and Townhall have take downs of the Fortune article. Go read them. The best rebuttal to any Obama tit sucker who uses this article to say Fast & Furious didn't happen is to ask why then did the DOJ, in Congressional testimony, say it did.
Lying politicians who do illegal, immoral things and then cover it up is not new. These guys take it to a whole new level, sure, but they are hardly unique. What is unique is that no one seems to care. The vast majority of Americans don't even know what Fast & Furious is or care. I am not kidding. I talk with the folks at the pool and they giggle and say, oh, I don't really follow that stuff...really?
ReplyDeleteThis whole waking a sleeping a giant thing...not seeing it. These people are out cold and I fear by the time they wake up, it will be to late.
Fast & Furious is a complicated issue, and Fortune is simply trying to make understanding the issue all that much harder.
DeleteI do agree that many people don't involve themselves in politics until they've lost a job or some life event happens to make them pay attention.