Tom, my gun shop was involved in the Fast and Furious Gun Runner scandal, pls help us get our info on how ATF used our bank acct and forged our FFL. We have full doc's to provide to you @FoxNews @realDonaldTrump @POTUS

Wesley Felix  (@wesleyfelixpsi) January 2, 2018

Another F&F thread regarding those tweets:

https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/More-ATF-FandF-criminality-/5-2067018/&page=1&anc=69982462#i69982462

Tag for tomorrows update.

Anything?

Color me surprised.

Keep this at the top.

I had no idea that this was even being pursued any more in erness. I'm surprised everything had no been sweep so deep under the rug and covered up there was no way to find anything out. But as I've always stated the government agencies are working at hiding this. They were all under the assumption that they'd have a female Democratic President right now and were working with FBHO, HRC and the Democratic party to corrupt the election and steal it.  But some how lost it.

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Edit: I see the Merida Initiative mentioned in the few places that aren't redacted. What is the Merida Init?...

I'd like to think the details of this will eventually come out like the last administration's scandals.

Whether or not you get some progress on this, thanks for what you do.

Thank you for everything, Nolo (as always).    

From near the end of the article:
If any of you tweet, or have any way you might (helpfully/constructively) get POTUS's attention.

Trump made mention of the 2nd in the SOTU.  Maybe he is waiting for the F&F info leak out and end the ATF like they are doing currently to the FBI and DOJ.  Bigger fish to fry first!

Thanks Nolo.  I've seen your work for a while.

Those of us that are not in a position to do things like this truly appreciate it.

Absolutely.....you sir, are a rock star.

This not releasing info because of the so call interest of national security is B.S. it's nothing but a way to cover up and protect criminals within the government.

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SORRY FORGOT TO THANK YOU  NOLO FOR YOUR HARD WORK

The FBI certainly showed that card in the latest Fisa memo redactions

Absolutely agree with you. Nolo is doing great work that I’m unable to do and I’m grateful to him for doing it.

So they basically told you to get lost? How nice of our public servants. Any hope of some MAGA help?

Bump for the morning crew

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And what % of the 70% were Fast and Furious guns and what % were through government sales?

They must have a full-time redacting person these days.

The Mérida Initiative (also called Plan Mexico by critics, in reference to Plan Colombia) is a security cooperation agreement among the United States, the government of Mexico, and the countries of Central America, with the declared aim of combating the threats of drug trafficking, transnational organized crime, and money laundering. The assistance includes training, equipment, and intelligence.

Is there a way to convert this thread into a one pagepdf file?
I want to be able to search it for information on how the #FBI jinked the NICS system.

Thanks,

Keep after 'em! You're doing great work!

https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/03/07/breaking.-department-justice-decides-obey-u.s.-constitution-release-fast-furious-documents-congress/

"This is nothing but good news. The people involved in this debacle need to be publicly named. If possible, they need to be prosecuted."

At least they decided to stop wasting so much toner when they're going to stonewall.

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Get Nunes on it, the entire gov't is at war with the Taxpayers.

The very first page of actual material they are claiming B1, as in the information is classified IAW EO 13526.  Either they had a massive negligent disclosure of classified information or they are inappropriately using the exemption.

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/07/sessions-finally-going-release-fast-furious-documents-withheld-congress-holder/

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/03/07/draft-n2458557?platform=hootsuite

Under F&F about 2,000 firearms were bought, from 2009 to 2011 (so three years.)

That's and average of 667 firearms per year.

73,000 guns siezed in mexico were traced to the US between 2009 and 2014 (six years.)

That's an average of 12,167 per year.

667/12,167 is 5.5% for the years F&F was in operation.

I can't find the stats easily anymore, but I remember when F&F broke if you limited it to
just AR and similar type rifles v. rifles used in mexico that traced back to the US the percentage
was much  higher (iirc it was near 50%) but without finding the source info I can't re-confirm this.

Look up Direct Government Sales.

Any idea about the timeline on the Sessions release?

Still nothing?

Did I hear and echo?

From your webpage:
So I followed the link to the production...

From pg.3 of the PDF -- short response from Alice G Wells ("Thanks -- we'll pass in.") to a completely-redacted longer email from Bill Burns (William J Burns) -- I noticed that one of the email addresses in the Cc field was redacted.

Rather, the username ('DRestrepo@') was left intact, while the servername was redacted.

I did a Google 'exact phrase' search for 'DRestrepo@' and returned two results, both from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets hosted on Colombian government websites.

(note: I downloaded those Excel spreadsheets, just in case they're no longer online when you try to check 'em out)

The full email address appears to be: [email protected]

I'm not sure if that email address is important, or why they would want to redact it... other than possibly as a courtesy to a GOC colleague/official.

Edit:
And a question from pg.6 of the PDF:

In the email exchange between Casey and Gina, in Gina's original email message there's an attachment (the memo to be cleared) titled:

"AM to P Fast and Furious.docx"

Did you get that Word document, or no? And if not, is it discoverable/FOIA-able?

Note that all of this appears to be an end to a bit of a to-do over Rep. Connie Mack IV asking *the* question (about possible ITAR/AECA violations, and Sec. Clinton's answers 'not making sense', to put it mildly).

I'm also wanting to come back to an older question, from another (related) investigation:

Note that the Michele Malkin post I'd saved about it appears to be down (either temporarily or permanently, I do not know):
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/09/06/fast-and-furious-update-project-grenadewalker/

Thankfully, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine didn't let me down, and it still lives here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20121006231656/http://michellemalkin.com/2011/09/06/fast-and-furious-update-project-grenadewalker/

Anyway... the MM post links to a 2011 Business Insider article (that is definitely toast), but which also (thankfully) has been preserved by the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130530011328/http://www.businessinsider.com/disastrous-us-gun-smuggling-operation-let-grenades-and-ieds-walk-into-mexico-2011-9

The relevant portion(s):
So, in the intervening ~7 years... does anyone know:
1.) Whatever became of Kingery? (e.g. dead? poss. of a self-inflicted double-tap to the back of the head? lol)
2.) Whatever became of the investigation into why Kingery was let go like that? (it certainly sounds like they were protecting him)

Edit:
And also, from later on in that Business Insider article:
I knew Restrepo's name (from my immediately-above post) sounded familiar...

Why does *our* 'senior director for the Western Hemisphere' have a Colombian government email address?

Hmmn... that might be one reason to redact it from the third production that they gave you.

You will also note that Restrepo is now (of course) a 'Senior Fellow' at [John Podesta's] Center for American Progress:
https://www.americanprogress.org/about/staff/restrepo-dan/bio/
^link left cold on purpose

Don't have answers to either of these questions, but did a little more digging in between meetings...

Lots of good stuff in this 2014 Sharyl piece, but I'm excerpting just a few pieces:
And here's the [redacted, public version of the] OIG's report:
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2014/s1501.pdf

Note: The redactions are very minor, and only appear to be concealing actual 'sources and methods'. IOW, not overused to hide a whole bunch of stuff.

Of possible interest: Pg.84-85 (sounds like cover for something shady going on... and is Hurley protecting Needles? Telling them not to email Needles, but to call him instead?)

If I remember correctly O'Reilly was lined up in the sights of the investigators then mysteriously went "missing" only to turn up at some posting in South America, there was another one as well and that may have been Restrepo?

My recollection was that the Committee (HOGR) wanted to question O'Reilly, and he [at the extreme last-minute] ended up on some BATF (or inter-agency) team in either IRQ or AFG.

My further recollection is that it later turned out major strings were pulled to effect this last-minute transfer, and that the person's belongings and family(?) were already there.

Edit:

This July 2012 post at Maggie's Notebook (relying heavily on Mike V and Sharyl) talks about that some more:
http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2012/07/kevin-oreilly-sent-to-iraq-not-allowed-to-testify-in-fast-furious-oreilly-takes-virginia-ramadans-job/

Note: This article says it was Iraq. Also mentions O'Reilly not only flouted the HOGR Committee, but also the later OIG investigation. Restrepo's name also comes up, toward the end.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/kevin-o-reilly-uncooperative-witness-fast-and-furious-returns-us-sudden-posting-iraq

This Sept. 2011 Sharyl piece also mentions Restrepo's name (listing his title as 'senior Latin American advisory'), and also adds the name of Greg Gatjanis, who is listed simply as 'a national security official'.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/atf-gunwalker-who-at-the-white-house-knew/

This Sept. 2011 WaPo piece describes O’Reilly as "a State Department official who had been detailed to the National Security Council at the White House" (which backs up earlier Mike V assertions that he 'apparently reported to Hillary Clinton' (single quotes because that's just going from memory and may not be verbatim).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-e-mails-refer-to-gun-trafficking-operation/2011/09/02/gIQAuC8NxJ_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fb1966868677

It also describes Restrepo as "President Obama’s senior adviser on Latin America" (which, again, why would he [also?] have a Colombian gov't email address?!).

Edit02:

John Hayward has a 2011 piece at Human Events (with nothing in the way of new info, really) titled "Fast and Furious: Reaching the Unreachable Man".    
http://humanevents.com/2011/10/27/fast-and-furious-reaching-the-unreachable-man/

This Dec. 2012 piece at the NarcoTrafficker blog not only has a pic of the elusive O'Reilly... it also includes the additional piece of information I'd been looking for in all of this response:
http://narcotrafficker.blogspot.com/2012/12/who-cares-about-kevin-oreilly.html
"Additionally, we have learned that O’Reilly took the place of a previously selected individual—an individual who had gone through a competitive application process and thorough vetting process, had the necessary qualifications, and whose spouse was already in Baghdad in anticipation of the individual’s arrival—to serve as the head of the Police Development Program."

I don't have time to go through it at the moment, but I was about to go back through the OIG's report (just to refresh my memory, as it's been so long) for mentions of O'Reilly, Restrepo, and [Virginia, lol] Ramadan.
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2012/s1209.pdf

Edit03:
Seems like IG Horowitz is all up in HRC's plumbing again... we'll see whether he finds anything this time:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/17/doj-inspector-general-completes-long-awaited-review-hillary-clinton-probe.html

Just read all 22 pages.

-Nothing predates 2011 (the earliest document appears to be June of 2011).  
-A bunch of heavily redacted emails (mostly from 2012) with most discussing an action memo and DOJ Fast and Furious documents (that are not present) for redaction.  
-White House talking points about how AG Holder made clear how no one "should" allow guns to cross the border. Heavily redacted (read totally redacted) WH Press guidance titled "Mexico: US Guns in Mexico."
-Background reference to a Wall Street Journal article.

Unless they are implying everything else has been withheld due to one of the listed exemptions in the first two pages. I don't believe that's all DOS has on F&F. I just don't.

Added back to my bookmarks in case this starts moving again.