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New Fast and Furious docs released by White House - CBS News Investigates - CBS News

Newly-released White House documents (pdf)

ATF agents say that in Fast and Furious, their agency allowed thousands of assault rifles and other weapons to be sold to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels. At least two of the guns turned up at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last December.

ATF Manager says he shared Fast and Furious with the White House

The email exchanges span a little over a month last summer. They discuss ATF's gun trafficking efforts along the border including the controversial Fast and Furious case, though not by name. The emails to and from O'Reilly indicate more than just a passing interest in the Phoenix office's gun trafficking cases. They do not mention specific tactics such as "letting guns walk."

A lawyer for the White House wrote Congressional investigators: "none of the communications between ATF and the White House revealed the investigative law enforcement tactics at issue in your inquiry, let alone any decision to allow guns to 'walk.'"

ATF Fast and Furious: Who at the White House knew?

Among the documents produced: an email in which ATF's Newell sent the White House's O'Reilly an "arrow chart reflecting the ultimate destination of firearms we intercepted and/or where the guns ended up." The chart shows arrows leading from Arizona to destinations all over Mexico.

Newell email (09.03.10) (pdf)
Arizona Gunrunner Impact Team chart (pdf)

via www.cbsnews.com

This whole thing casts doubt on anything the ATF is involved in. JUst plain old stupid.

Is Christie More Moderate than the Current Republican Candidates?

Think long and hard about this one, Chris Christie.Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

via nymag.com

\ Five Things Conservative Voters Would Hate About Chris Christie -- Daily Intel

Five Things Conservative Voters Would Hate About Chris Christie -- Daily Intel
Chris Christie is , as with most politician, very politic when it comes to his answers regarding many of the issues that are important to Conservatives. For all the mainstream Republican elite's apparent support, Christie appears to be more moderate as are more than one of the current Republican candidates.

Secret panel can put Americans on kill list' | Reuters

(Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.

There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House's National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate.

The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late last month.

The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process.

Current and former officials said that to the best of their knowledge, Awlaki, who the White House said was a key figure in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate, had been the only American put on a government list targeting people for capture or death due to their alleged involvement with militants.

via www.reuters.com

How do you feel about this?

Campaign for Liberty - Audit the Fed

"Audit the Federal Reserve"
Petition to the US Congress

Whereas:	The Federal Reserve refuses to give a public accounting of the TRILLIONS in recent taxpayer-backed loans; and
Whereas:	Congress has the responsibility to force a public audit of the Federal Reserve, and the American people deserve to know how their tax dollars are being spent; and
Whereas:	Allowing the Fed to remain out of control and shrouded in secrecy clearly allows for abuse and the continued stealing of our tax dollars through inflation and unaccounted electronic bank "loans"; and
Whereas:	The Federal Reserve's abuses lead to constant economic crises like the current housing crisis, international banking crisis and the resulting chaos; and
Whereas:	The Federal Reserve System forces fuel, food, housing, medical care and education costs upward, meaning that everyone who is NOT on the government dole is forced to make do with less as the value of money slowly decreases; and
Whereas:	History shows us that riots, violence and full-scale police states can result when people finally realize fiat money isn't worth the paper it's printed on and REFUSE to accept it;
Therefore:	I urge you to cosponsor and make every effort to seek roll call votes on the Audit the Fed Bill, H.R. 459/S 202

via www.chooseliberty.org

Act now for no discounts on your miney.

Citizens must speak official languages: Feds | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

OTTAWA - Immigrants who want to become Canadian citizens could soon face tougher testing.

The federal government is considering tighter rules on language proficiency, insisting Canadian citizens speak either English or French or both.

“Some people, believe it or not, have been able to take translators with them into an oral test, with citizenship judges. What's the point, exactly?” Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Monday. “I have met too many citizens that don't speak English or French. That never should have happened. Under this new system that's not going to happen any longer.”

Currently, Canada requires potential citizens between the ages of 18 and 54 to communicate in one official language, but they are not objectively tested by a third party. A new plan would change that, also needing proof of graduation from secondary school in English or French.

The opposition is considering the idea, but says caution is necessary until they have examined the proposals.

“In general, I am in favour of any measure

via www.torontosun.com

This is just basic common sense.