Why Is Dhimmedia Not More Curious about Fast & Furious?

From Jim Geraghty's Morning Jolt: "The really short update on the Fast and Furious scandal: Yesterday, it sounded bad; today, it sounds worse." 

 

CBS: Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation "Fast and Furious" to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales.

ATF officials didn't intend to publicly disclose their own role in letting Mexican cartels obtain the weapons, but emails show they discussed using the sales, including sales encouraged by ATF, to justify a new gun regulation called "Demand Letter 3". That would require some U.S. gun shops to report the sale of multiple rifles or "long guns." Demand Letter 3 was so named because it would be the third ATF program demanding gun dealers report tracing information.

On July 14, 2010 after ATF headquarters in Washington D.C. received an update on Fast and Furious, ATF Field Ops Assistant Director Mark Chait emailed Bill Newell, ATF's Phoenix Special Agent in Charge of Fast and Furious:

 

"Bill -- can you see if these guns were all purchased from the same (licensed gun dealer) and at one time. We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun multiple sales. Thanks."

 

.... At Powerline, John Hinderaker thinks that the worst-case scenario could be epic:

If the Obama administration did arrange for the shipment of arms to Mexican drug gangs, not for any legitimate public purpose but in order to advance a left-wing political agenda, and those guns were used to murder hundreds of Mexicans and at least one American border agent -- which they were -- then we are looking at a scandal that dwarfs any in modern American history. 

So.... what WAS the ostensible purpose?

 Ace of Spades ... laments that he is "still looking for anyone in the media to vigorously question an official on the goal of this operation. We armed up Mexican Drug Barons, who used the guns to kill 300 people, making this a very murderous foreign covert operation, and no one in the media really seems curious as to the actual goal sought."

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

As scandals go, this one should be right up there with Watergate and Iran-Contra. So why isn't it? Because today's media are run by a generation that's been schooled in the moral relativism that permeates nearly every college in America. For these moral twits, absolutes like good and bad, right and wrong, are as antiquated as Roman togas. The moral label we pin on anything "depends" on whose purpose it serves. Since Fast and Furious served -- or at least was intended to serve -- the purpose of the Obama administration, it was therefore right -- or at least not wrong. End of story. This kind of thinking will get you an A+ in almost any ethics course in any university in this country. It cannot be said often or emphatically enough: America cannot and will not be restored to greatness until our universities are radically reformed. We conservatives have a lot of work ahead of us.