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ABC: Obama Lied About ‘Fast And Furious’
President Obama Falsely Claims Fast and Furious Program “Begun Under the Previous Administration”
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Asked about the Fast and Furious program at the Univision forum on Thursday, President Obama falsely claimed that the program began under President George W. Bush.
“I think it’s important for us to understand that the Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration,” the president said. “When Eric Holder found out about it, he discontinued it. We assigned a inspector general to do a thorough report that was just issued, confirming that in fact Eric Holder did not know about this, that he took prompt action and the people who did initiate this were held accountable.”
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In actuality, the Fast and Furious program was started in October 2009, nine months into the Obama presidency.
Previous programs involving ATF agents allowing guns to “walk” across the border so as to trace them were run during the Bush presidency, but not this particular “field-initiated program.”
Asked for comment, White House Spokesman Eric Schultz said, “The President was referring to the flawed tactic of gun-walking, which despite Republicans efforts to politicize this issue, began under the previous Administration and it was our Attorney General who ended it. In fact, this week’s IG report affirms this and if Republicans still have any legitimate questions about Fast and Furious, the 450-page report answers them. In light of this thorough report and Congress’s 16 month-long investigation, Republicans have no excuse to keep wasting time and taxpayer resources on politically-motivated, election-year attacks.”
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT why they put WEAPONRY into the hands of KNOWN VIOLENT DRUG CARTELS?
WE SURE the HELL DO,these 2000 walking weapons were NOT TAGGED w/ ID CHIPS-there was no way 4 AGENTS 2 TRACE THESE WEAPONS-they were let go on PURPOSE 2 CREATE CHAOS////////////
WE HAVE PROOF….#*$^#&@*!((@*#*$((%
Bad GUYS were ARMED BY BarryO in …..MEXICO,EGYPT,LIBYA& NOW SYRIA HELLO
& the SH#$ for BRAINS OBama-the KNOWN IDENTITY THIEF LIES 2 UNIVISION–& THE WORLD
EVERY BODY KNOWS IT
exactly-where the WEAPONS were allowed 2 cross the BORDER&MURDER HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
OMG
Nov.6th,2012 if CONGRESS won’t PROSECUTE the WH MOB THROW THEM OUT.