http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/11/29/sentencing-reset-for-man-in-fast-and-furious-case/ Your Inside Track to Arizona Politics Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:37:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/11/29/sentencing-reset-for-man-in-fast-and-furious-case/comment-page-1/#comment-79755 Joe Houseman Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:18:20 +0000 http://azcapitoltimes.com/?p=53674#comment-79755 If this guy goes to prison for 49 guns what should be done with Bill Newell who is responsible for those 49 plus 1700 others? The Department of Justice Inspector General's report confirmed what the whistle blowers said two years ago, that there never was any attempt to track those guns. Bill Newell had been SAC of the previous Operation Wide Receiver when it was shut down because guns had been lost. Newell therefore was well aware even before starting Fast & Furious that they had no way to track anything in Mexico and Newell refused requests from field agents who wanted to interdict those smugglers before they crossed the border. There never was any intention to do anything at all except to wait for police to recover those guns from crime scenes. The sole purpose of the operation was to compile data on how guns move thorough the underground system and he simply did not care who died for that data. He is guilty of at least several hundred counts of conspiracy to murder and in a just society his hanging would be public as a message to other cops who think themselves above the law. If this guy goes to prison for 49 guns what should be done with Bill Newell who is responsible for those 49 plus 1700 others? The Department of Justice Inspector General’s report confirmed what the whistle blowers said two years ago, that there never was any attempt to track those guns. Bill Newell had been SAC of the previous Operation Wide Receiver when it was shut down because guns had been lost. Newell therefore was well aware even before starting Fast & Furious that they had no way to track anything in Mexico and Newell refused requests from field agents who wanted to interdict those smugglers before they crossed the border. There never was any intention to do anything at all except to wait for police to recover those guns from crime scenes. The sole purpose of the operation was to compile data on how guns move thorough the underground system and he simply did not care who died for that data. He is guilty of at least several hundred counts of conspiracy to murder and in a just society his hanging would be public as a message to other cops who think themselves above the law.

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