{"id":8759,"date":"2011-10-21T22:13:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T03:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=8759"},"modified":"2011-10-21T22:14:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T03:14:24","slug":"fast-and-furious-updates-for-october-21-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=8759","title":{"rendered":"Fast and Furious Updates for October 21, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So, Mr. &#8216;You just Took a One Week Break,'&#8221; you ask, &#8220;where do I go to get up to speed on Fast and Furious, ALA Operation Gunwalker?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad you asked.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the best place to start is Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea&#8217;s six part series, which provides a nice overview, as well as a timeline with links to the related posts:<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-national\/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker\">Part 1<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-national\/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker-part-two\">Part 2<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-national\/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker-part-three\">Part 4<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-national\/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker-part-four\">Part 4<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-national\/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker-part-five\">Part 5<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-national\/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker-part-six\">Part 6<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<p>Now back to our regularly scheduled update, which has been on hold while I did things like Texas Senate Race updates, job interviews, etc. So some of this will be old news to many of you:<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=1479:oversight-committee-subpoenas-attorney-general-for-operation-fast-and-furious-communications-and-documents-&#038;catid=22:releasesstatements\">And here comes the subpoenas!<\/a>\n<li>How is it that Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-national\/hiding-plain-sight-how-did-obama-know-about-gunwalker-before-holder?CID=examiner_alerts_article\">knew about Fast and Furious before Eric Holder did<\/a>?\n<li>Rep. Chaffee and Gowdy say that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-st-louis\/reps-chaffetz-and-gowdy-ask-obama-key-gunwalker-question\">Eric Holder and Barack Obama have some &#8216;splainin to do<\/a>.\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nBIWSyoe6vA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/oct\/12\/gunwalker-is-only-the-tip-of-a-scandal-iceberg\/\">Just the tip of the iceberg?<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/10\/13\/opinion\/navarrette-fast-furious\/\">Ruben Navarrette on CNN.com<\/a>: &#8220;This scandal is about dead Mexicans&#8230;.Where&#8217;s the outrage?&#8221; Also this: &#8220;Bully for Issa. We need to get to the bottom of this scandal, and if the administration isn&#8217;t cooperating, there is all the more reason to keep digging. That also goes for Attkisson and CBS News, who have done first-rate work.&#8221; Question unanswered: Why did it take CNN so long to realize Fast and Furious was a real story?&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/sipsey-street-exclusive-was-gunwalker.html\">The William Newell-Kevin O&#8217;Reilly connection.<\/a>\n<li>How does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2011\/10\/17\/earlyshow\/main20121254.shtml\">the FBI<\/a> fit in? Plus the mysterious Third Gun.\n<li>How the ATF  <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/katiepavlich\/2011\/10\/21\/atf_ignored_death_threats,_tried_to_frame_whistleblower_agent_to_cover_corruption\/page\/full\/\">punished a whistleblower<\/a>. And ignored death threats to his life. And then his house burned down in an arson attack. And then the ATF tried to frame him for that.\n<li>And I though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=7405\">I was<\/a> the only one in the rightwing blogsphere who made <a href=\"http:\/\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/vladimir-and-estragon-await-office-of.html\"><i>Waiting for Godot<\/i><\/a> references.\n<li>Before Obama, who knew that <a href=\"http:\/\/cornyn.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?p=NewsReleases&#038;ContentRecord_id=95648475-738d-4f1a-9cf0-60edfd0419d3\">you would actually have to pass a law to prevent the U.S. government from using taxpayer dollars to ship weapons to Mexican drug cartels<\/a>?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/gunwalker-miscellany_21.html\">Here&#8217;s a bunch of links from Sipsey Street<\/a>, which i will refrain from posting individually and pretending they&#8217;re my own.\n<\/li>\n<p>(Hat tips: Just about everyone under the Gun Blog header to your right, plus Insta and Ace.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So, Mr. &#8216;You just Took a One Week Break,&#8217;&#8221; you ask, &#8220;where do I go to get up to speed on Fast and Furious, ALA Operation Gunwalker?&#8221; I&#8217;m glad you asked. 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