‘Gunwalker’ Goes Pravda: White House Unleashes MSM

[Geee]

Pajamas Media:

To date, Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley have led the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious: a multi-agency scheme that allowed known straw purchasers to buy an estimated 2,000 firearms and to smuggle them into Mexico, into the hands of the narco-terrorists of Mexican cartels. An estimated 150 Mexican police officers and soldiers have been killed by the weapons.

Issa and Grassley have been operating in a near vacuum, with very little coverage from the media. This is stunning considering the scope of the plot, which seems to have originated at the highest levels of government. But on Tuesday, two of the largest and most influential news organizations finally saw fit to address the matter head-on.

By targeting the messenger.

The Washington Post has printed a character assassination piece targeting Issa which PJM sources confirm had been shopped around to other news outlets and blogs by the Obama administration since the House Oversight Committee hearings last week.

The administration-authored Post story attempts to claim that Rep. Issa, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform which issued the damning report last week about Gunwalker, had been briefed about the program a year ago and had no objections to it at that time.

The evidence for this claim? There isn’t any.

According to a well-placed source, the hit piece the Post ran had been shopped by the administration to several other news organizations. All passed on it, since there was no credible attribution for the story.

Only the Washington Post would run it. Additionally, an article written last week in the Wall Street Journal had already challenged this narrative:

An April 2010 email from an ATF agent in Mexico City to a bureau official, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, discussed plans to provide a classified briefing to Mr. Issa’s own committee about several cases, including Fast and Furious. A spokesman for Mr. Issa said that the congressman wasn’t briefed on specifics of the operation and that staffers who attended the briefing don’t recall the operation being mentioned.

High-level “Cliff’s Notes” briefings of overall programs are often the content of routine briefings, but project-level details — such as the walking of guns to Mexican cartels — would not have been in a typical briefing, if specific projects were mentioned at all.

[Jill]

Oh yes, the unnamed source that claimed there was a Congressional meeting last year and Issa was "briefed" about Gunwalker at that time, therefore he "knew" and did nothing to stop it. I don't believe it for a minute, Issa could have been told that there was something like that going on or had already happened, because if it went down the way WaPo claimed, the source would have been wanted to be named. It's also crazy to think a Congressman knew all about it, but Holder and Obama had no clue.

[Argyle58]

Oh yes, the unnamed source that claimed there was a Congressional meeting last year and Issa was "briefed" about Gunwalker at that time, therefore he "knew" and did nothing to stop it. I don't believe it for a minute, Issa could have been told that there was something like that going on or had already happened, because if it went down the way WaPo claimed, the source would have been wanted to be named. It's also crazy to think a Congressman knew all about it, but Holder and Obama had no clue.

 

 

This is why the coverup usually does more damage to politicians than the initial screw up. Better do admit the wrong doing and take one's lumps, (for Dems that usually means issuing an apology) than to get caught trying to hide the evidence.

 

Most people learn that by age 5 or so.

[Casino67]

I am sure the WaPo will explain their decision to go with the story.