"Operation Fast And Furious" - wholesale Government corruption?

As more and more information comes out about the ATF's "Operation Fast and Furious" (which we've discussed here before), it's becoming clear that it extended far beyond Arizona. Indeed, it appears more and more like a concerted effort on the part of a great many senior Government officials to subvert the diplomatic process and pursue their personal anti-gun agenda. Pajamas Media reports:

It was bad enough that more than a half-dozen director-level law enforcement officials and an unknown number of supervisors and managers acquiesced to a plot that armed cartels with more than 2,000 weapons in ATF’s Phoenix Field Operations area. But saying that a combination of groupthink, stupidity, and institutional inertia is to blame for this fiasco is giving dozens of federal law enforcement officers across multiple agencies the benefit of the doubt that they are merely criminally incompetent.

The increasingly more plausible motivation: political appointees of the current administration concocted a scheme to destabilize a friendly government to restore the flagging anti-gun movement.

That scenario would have seemed paranoid just weeks ago, but new evidence appearing almost daily indicates that the “Fast and Furious” scandal based in Arizona may be just one part of a much wider campaign by multiple government agencies acting well beyond the law.

Recent developments indicate that in addition to Fast and Furious in Arizona, another gunrunning operation was headquartered in ATF’s Tampa Field Operations area. It allowed roughly 1,000 firearms to be smuggled to the ultra-violent MS-13 gang in Honduras.

Evidence also suggests that similar multi-agency programs exist in both the Houston and Dallas Field Operations areas covering all of Texas and Oklahoma.

Taken together, this suggests that we are not dealing with an isolated incident, but an ambitious and insidious attempt by the highest levels of a rogue government to reshape our world by any means necessary.

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If most of the claims regarding this scandal are substantiated — and developing evidence certainly indicates a high likelihood of that happening — we face a watershed moment in American history.

Every component of federal law enforcement within the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security — and most likely with the knowledge of the Department of State — undertook a massive operation designed to facilitate the flow of thousands of weapons into the hands of some of the most vicious criminal organizations on Earth. These operations likely took place with the full knowledge of cabinet level officials, and possibly the White House. The weapons “walked” were used to gun down innocent men, women, and children, not to mention the brave police officers and soldiers in each nation trying to wage peace.

It demands a criminal investigation and the possible RICO prosecution of dozens of federal law enforcement officers, supervisors, senior management, political appointees, and possibly elected officials.

Our federal law enforcement apparatus became a criminal conspiracy. This was an assault on the democratic rule of law and the very essence of our republic.

There's more at the link. Bold print is my emphasis.

I don't think Pajamas Media is overstating the case. I fully expect Attorney General Holder to stonewall, obfuscate and evade to the best of his not inconsiderable ducking-and-diving ability; but I hope and pray that Congressional and Senate investigations continue to uncover the truth of what went on. In fact, I think the time has come to appoint a special prosecutor to take over the investigation (as was done during the Watergate scandal) and bring charges against any and all persons and organizations involved in this corruption. I'll be writing to my elected representatives to suggest that. May I request you, dear reader, to consider doing the same?

Peter