This was found by someone at Free Republic, documented at Pajamas Media. Project Gunrunner was funded 10 million taxpayer dollars in the Stimulus that Obama signed himself:

For an additional amount for ‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’, $40,000,000, for competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the Southern border, of which $10,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses’ for the ATF Project Gunrunner.

Here’s a link to the actual text at Open Congress. Click it and see for yourself. Is this what Obama meant by shovel-ready jobs? Project Gunrunner is the reason Brian Terry is dead as we armed drug-runners in Mexico. Now the same arms are turning back up here and there’s no telling how many deaths will be directly connected to it.

In fact here’s a piece by ABC 15 documenting that the guns are showing up in Phoenix:

(h/t Allahpundit on Twitter)




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David Kerns
David Kerns

Sooner or later Obama...I knew you'd step in shit...hahahahaha

That Dude
That Dude

I can see it got out of hand but I really don't see this as that bad. They're going to get guns anyway. You get one off the street and there's another one there tomorrow. Might as well track them. Now I do think people acted on their own. But this has been going on since 2005. The guy want's to come out now I wonder why? We can call a spade a spade. There is conspiracy on both sides of this thing. Close it down and find a new solution.

That Dude
That Dude

You guys know this started before Obama right?

Carol Connors
Carol Connors

They weren't given a chance to read it. The Pelosi congress only released the bill at midnight (or something like that) the next day was the vote.

"We have to pass the bill before you can find out what's in it" - Pelosi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE1R-xH5To

voted against carter
voted against carter

Well,.. we HAVE to PASS it to find out whats in it. Wink, Wink.

Were have I heard that before,..???

So barry signed it,.. that means he KNEW/KNOWs about it.

LOL!!

Persephone
Persephone

Create a faux 'crisis'...then prey upon it.

They obviously planned to use this to forward their agenda of killing the 2nd Amendment.

We should not think that this will prevent the Predator-in-Chief and his merry band of accomplices from doing something else equally as diabolical, to force their agenda on us.

Cindy Beveridge Wright
Cindy Beveridge Wright

I have been posting this for months it is on the DOJ web page for crying out loud ... I guess Holder had no idea it was there and is Quoted on the page “This funding is vital to keeping our communities strong,” said Attorney General Eric Holder. “As governors, mayors, and local law enforcement professionals struggle with the current economic crisis, we can’t afford to decrease our commitment to fighting crime and keeping our communities safe. These grants will help ensure states and localities can make the concerted efforts necessary to protect our most vulnerable communities and populations.” http://www.justice.gov/recovery/rec-prog.html

Richard McCreedy
Richard McCreedy

You've got a 800 billion dollar bill, you're going to easily overlook the 10 million dollar program in it. Especially when it's something you've never heard of and have no idea what it's going to do. The Rs were busy fighting the stimulus as a whole and it would have been nearly impossibly to mount a case against Gunrunner at that time when it was costing a whole 10 million out of the 800 billion and no one would have had any clue as to what it was or would eventually be. No one would have listened even if they did catch it.

KenInMontana
KenInMontana

I'd wager that no one at the time thought to ask, "Just what,exactly, is this Gunrunner thing?"

Josh
Josh

Well, we had to pass the bill to find out what was in it.

Every single idiot who voted for the stimulus should be thrown out of office for not doing their job. The only "real" responsibility that they have, the reason they are elected, is so they have the time to read the legal documents and represent us.

Rat Killer
Rat Killer

Yeah but even when the GOP does warn us, like with Obamacare, they are ridiculed....we need to vote more tea partiers into office and kick the progressives out

The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz

So, if the people are to believe that Congress wrote the bill, and the POTUS read it, then how could either claim they did not know about it? This is complete incompetence and a tacit admission that they are not only NOT working in the peoples' best interest, but, at worst, are deferring their job to some outside organization and could care less about details of the legislation they dump on Americans and sign into law.

Making laws that everyone else has to live by, and then not knowing what's in the bill should be an impeachable offense.

NEO CON JOHN
NEO CON JOHN

This is but another nail in the coffin of the obbamma administration. The closer we get to the election, I believe that others in different agencies will be opening up to disclose other improprieties in order to save their own Arse's.

When the anointed one was elected, many in good faith followed blindly on the

"hope and change express" and now they see that they were bamboozled, and are now starting to feel the stress of being involved in the destruction of our great country.

In time, we the people will have an accounting for all the underhanded policies that have been enacted, and WE DAM SURE BETTER HOLD SOMEONE ACCOUNTABLE!

NEO CON JOHN
NEO CON JOHN

This is but another nail in the coffin of the obbamma administration. The closer we get to the election, I believe that others in different agencies will be opening up to disclose other improprieties in order to save their own Arse's.

When the anointed one was elected, many in good faith followed blindly on the

"hope and change express" and now they see that they were bamboozled, and are now starting to feel the stress of being involved in the destruction of our great country.

In time, we the people will have an accounting for all the underhanded policies that have been enacted, and WE DAM SURE BETTER HOLD SOMEONE ACCOUNTABLE!

coralchristie
coralchristie

The buck stops with the President and takes with it Holder, Pelosi and Reid.

Dave Kawasaki
Dave Kawasaki

...and, thanks to the spineless republicans in the House, this will go nowhere.

Robert Hersey
Robert Hersey

They must be changing their underwear at the DOJ daily . Couldn't have happened to a nicer group of people .