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Jon Stewart on fast and furious: I’m just trying to make this terrible story funny
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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June 25th, 2012 at 12:50 pm
“Fast and Furious” was a bungled ATF operation where faulty equipment was used to track guns. Allegedly, the agents who chose and installed the tracking devices, didn’t realize how quickly the batteries in them would go dead, so they lost the guns. The premise of the operation was sound, but it was disastrously handled. To be able to salvage anything from the situation, it’s likely that the ATF is repositioning its undercover agents on the field. To keep those men safe, it’s logical to classify documents that can give away their identities. I don’t know why Stewart is hammering on this so hard. It’s not as if the Obama administration used the ATF to carry out illegal actions. If there were ever a justifiable case to invoke executive privilege, this would be one.
That was from the comments. ‘Tracking devices’ what ‘tracking devices’? Did the ATF put tracking devices on every gun in every gunstore along the border? Who’s suddenly come up with the idea that the ATF even tried to track these guns.
Maybe Stewart is hammering this so hard is because there is a body count behind Obama’s executive privilege.
June 25th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
He’s hammering it because his job is showing you how the media fails us and how both major political parties engage in double standards in defense of the narratives they’re trying to communicate.
Remember this next time some idiot says you can discount what TDS does and says because he’s some sort of liberal or something.
June 25th, 2012 at 3:29 pm
JFM, you’ve conflated two different operations. The “wide receiver” operation, initiated during GW Bush’s tenure tried to use tracking transmitters – and they failed spectacularly, for several reasons.
The F & F guns were simply sold (by American gun stores at the direction of BATFE) to known straw buyers and the only “tracing” was to record the serial numbers so they could be identified when recovered at crime scenes in Mexico.
For this reason alone, a good case could be made that the intent of F&F was to link American gun store sales to Mexican crime. I wasn’t until an American BP agent was killed with one that folks on the inside of the BATFE started talking because they were outraged at what was happening.
Personally, I don’t think much of ANYONE trying to make something that cost that many innocent lives “funny”.