{"id":62891,"date":"2011-07-29T11:16:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T17:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=62891"},"modified":"2011-07-29T11:16:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T17:16:25","slug":"a-justice-dept-fast-furious-coverup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=62891","title":{"rendered":"A Justice Dept. &#8216;Fast &#038; Furious&#8217; coverup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/opinion\/opedcolumnists\/lethal_fiasco_rllfHYxZwgAHwNGmMUCaoL\" target=\"_blank\">Read it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a series of hearings, Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley have been systematically dismantling the administration&#8217;s preposterous claim that no one in the Justice Department &#8212; which oversees the\u00a0Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives\u00a0&#8212; knew anything about the so-called gun-tracking operation.<\/p>\n<p>In Fast and Furious, ATF officials encouraged &#8220;straw buyers&#8221; in Arizona &#8212; including two convicted felons who should have been stopped by the\u00a0FBI\u00a0&#8212; to purchase more than 2,000 heavy-duty firearms, including AK-47 variants and .50-caliber sniper rifles, and then resell them to the Mexican drug cartels, allegedly to trace and stop crossborder arms trafficking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. In a series of hearings, Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley have been systematically dismantling the administration&#8217;s preposterous claim that no one in the Justice Department &#8212; which oversees the\u00a0Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives\u00a0&#8212; knew anything about the so-called gun-tracking operation. In Fast and Furious, ATF officials encouraged &#8220;straw buyers&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62893,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62891\/revisions\/62893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}