It was back during the White House briefing on June 27, that a reporter first asked White House Press Secretary Jay "Yep, I'm a moron, so what of it" Carney for the date that Barry "Almighty" first learned about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) badly botched gun-sting operation known as “Fast and Furious." “I’ll have to get back to you,” was the brilliant response uttered at that time by the astute Mr. Carney. “I don’t have an exact date for you.” Now bare in mind that this very same question was asked by this very same news organization in a June 20 email, sent to Mr. Carney a week before the briefing where Carney gave his stellar answer that he would have to “get back” with an exact date. Now anyone else, anyone but a sleazy Democrat, might be accused of stalling or of maybe of even attempting to perpetrate some sort of a diversionary tactic. But we can't accuse Barry of such a thing because, well, that would be racist. Right? Any excuse to dodge this potential political bullet. Anyway, if Barry was some dumb, white Republican he'd of already been impeached and run out of town. But since he happens to be a black Democrat, no harm no foul.
So since that very same June 27 briefing, the news organization involved here has repeatedly followed up with the resident communications genius, Mr. Carney, over there at the White House press office asking for the specific date when it was that our "Fearless Leader" first learned about this idiotic and ineptly run operation. On June 28 and then again on July 6, emails were sent to Carney asking if he had had the opportunity to check on the date. No response was forthcoming. Documents have now been released which now show that our stellar Attorney General Eric "Mr. Racist" Holder was informed about the operation in memos sent to him by senior Justice Department officials back in July of 2010. That little fact, by the way, contradicts testimony that Mr. Holder provided to the House Judiciary Committee on May 3 when he stated that he had “probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.” The White House was asked again as recently as this morning when it was that Barry had first learned of the operation. And again the only response continues to be silence.
So let's back track a bit here starting this morning when an e-mail was again sent to Mr. Carney and the press office with this question: “When did the President first become aware of Operation Fast & Furious? Do you have an exact date? Do you have an approximate time (month-year)?” Shortly after the email was sent a phone call was placed to the White House to follow-up on the email inquiry. A press aide, who said he was not authorized to speak on the matter, stated that the e-mail inquiry had been received and the “appropriate people do have the question and contact information.” And then, again, back at the June 27 White House briefing, we have Carney first being asked: “Could you tell me what is the exact date that the president learned about the Justice Department ATF operation to allow guns to flow into Mexico?” It was then that Carney, again a supposed communications expert, apparently had trouble understanding the question, saying, “I mean, I think I’ve answered this question a bunch about--about what he learned?” Do these people really think that we're that stupid? Really?
The question asked was: “What is the exact date that he learned about it?” To which Carney, apparently still not quite understanding it, asked, “The exact thing that he learned?” So again the question was clarified to make it easier for someone of Mr. Carney's obviously limited intelligence to understand, “Exact date--date.” To which Carney finally responded, “I’ll have to get back to you. I don’t have an exact date for you.” In another time, or with a Republican in the White House, the state controlled media would be screaming, referring to this sort of thing as purposeful attempt at stonewalling. Ah, but such is not the case this time around, after all we have an election in just 14 months. Nothing is to be done that might besmirch what little amount of character that our first black president might possess. It has very quickly become quite obvious that all manner of effort to sweep this fiasco under the rug is now well underway, concentrating on keeping it all well out of view of the public just long enough for them to forget all about it. And I'm sure that we cannot expect any level of enthusiastic investigative reporting regarding the matter to take place here. There's no modern day version of a Woodard and Bernstein team around who would be willing to leave no stone untuned in their effort to bring down the first black president.
Operation "Fast and Furious" was an operation run by the Phoenix division of the ATF in which federal law enforcement, if you can imagine, knowingly allowed people believed to be straw purchasers for Mexican drug cartels to buy guns. This is a perfect example of a "Keystone Cops," or "Three Stooges" type of an approach to what is a very serious and ongoing problem. Supposedly, the aim of the entire operation was to trace the guns back to the various Mexican drug cartels. However, the ATF kinda lost track, whoops, of most of the nearly 2,000 guns that were sold during the operation. “Fast and Furious,” probably better referred to as "Slow and Inept," which began in September 2009, was halted in December 2010 after two guns sold during the operation were found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Gee, imagine that. Ordinarily, I would suggest that that might make Barry "Almighty" an accessory to murder, but, in all honesty, I suppose that that's a bit of a reach and not something we can expect to see happen here. After all, we can't even find out when it was that he first found out about the "operation." And most likely, we never will. The wagons have effectively been circled.
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