Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News, who broke much of the news in the Fast and Furious scandal, has come up with even more for us to chew on. New emails point to a possible motivation for why the Justice Department and Eric Holder was handing over thousands of guns to Mexican gangs and drug dealers they were going to use the results of this program to argue for stricter gun control laws and to destroy the second amendment: Of course ATF officials didn’t intend to publicly disclose their own twisted and criminal role in giving Mexican cartels the ability to obtain the weapons, but emails show they discussed using the sales, including sales encouraged and demanded by ATF, to justify a new gun regulation and second amendment establishment called Demand Letter 3. That would need some U.S. gun stores to report the sale of multiple rifles or long guns. Demand Letter 3 was so named because it would be the 3rd ATF program demanding gun dealers report tracing information. On July 14, 2010 after ATF headquarters in Washington D.C. received an briefing 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. On Jan. 4, 2011, as the ATF prepared a press conference to announce arrests in Fast and Furious, Newell saw it as Another time to address Multiple Sale on Long Guns issue. And a day after the press conference, Chait emailed Newell: Billwell done yesterday (I)n light of our request for Demand letter 3, this case could be a strong supporting factor if we can determine how many multiple sales of long guns occurred during the course of this case.This is not the first development that suggests the Fast and Furious Screw Up was a plan for the Obama Admin. to get tougher gun control laws. The Obama administration's public coordination with the asses in Mexican government on warnings about gun trafficking across the border, mixed with the Hypocrites Mexican government's apparent plans to retain a U.S. law firm to sue U.S. gun suppliers, pointed toward a gun control and second amendment haters agenda as a possible motivation for the scandal. So far a clear motivation for the Justice Department's reasons has been sneaky. But if a desire to drum up support for gun regulations turns out to be behind the scandal the implications are huge. Scott Johnson of Powerline puts it this way: 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.
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