OK, after Mike did one of his requests for help on opening the 2nd Front of Gunwalker investigations, I made my post about contacting everyone on the Homeland Security and Justice committees. It took quite a while to do this because you can’t email them unless you are one of their constituents and I don’t have a fax machine. So, I went to each of their websites, looked up their district map, and then made up an address that the USPS zip code finder recognized, and then I was able to send them the email. I’m sure I missed a few of them, but it took a long time to do the ones I did… I’m just glad I have high speed internet cause anything else would take forever. Anyway, I started receiving responses from them. The responses are really pathetic. Here are two of them which are representative of all of the responses I’ve gotten so far.

First:

Dear Mr. Roote:
Thank you for contacting me with your concerns about Project Gunrunner. I welcome the opportunity to respond.

As you may be aware, Project Gunrunner was an operation administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), in which the ATF allowed individuals to buy hundreds of guns from gun shops in an attempt to trace the path of these firearms back to gangs and drug cartels in Mexico. A gun linked to Project Gunrunner was found to be used in the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. On December 14, 2010, Agent Terry was killed in the line of duty in Arizona.

Although I am not a member of the House Committee on the Judiciary or the House Committee on Government Oversight, I share your concerns about the deplorable way this operation was conducted and the lack of accountability that has taken place after the fact. Please know that I will keep your views in mind should legislation regarding this matter come to the full House of Representatives for a vote.

Feel free to contact me again in the future. You may wish to visit my website at http://brooks.house.gov/ for additional information about issues and legislation before Congress.

Sincerely,
Mo Brooks
Member of Congress

And here’s the second representative sample:

Dear Mark:

Thank you for contacting me to share your thoughts about possible gun walking operations by the federal government. I appreciate hearing from you.
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I share your deep concern about reports that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and other law enforcement organizations may have participated in acts of “gun walking” – purposely allowing firearms to pass from straw purchasers into possession of criminals and other dangerous individuals and organizations. These reports raise a number of troubling questions.

The ATF has noted that illegal weapons trafficking is a “problem with consequences on both sides” of our border, and that ATF’s objective should be to prevent dangerous foreign groups and organizations from obtaining firearms “which they employ to murder rival drug traffickers, civilians, as well as political, military, and law enforcement figures in order to strengthen their grip on the lucrative drug and firearms routes into and out of the United States.” However, two weapons found at the scene of the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry were traced back to the ATF’s “Operation Fast and Furious” – a gun walking operation conducted by the ATF’s Phoenix Field Division. This evidence suggests that the federal government has severely failed the very objective it proposed for the ATF’s comprehensive strategy to reduce violent crime associated with foreign criminal organizations.

As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security and a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, I find it troubling that the United States government would willfully allow weapons to be acquired by dangerous criminal and drug trafficking organizations, in direct contravention to our strategic and national interests. You may certain that I will continue to investigate this matter. I will also share your comments with my House colleagues, who will benefit from your views.

As a resident of Florida’s Ninth District, your comments and opinions are an important source of information to help me carry out my duties as your federal representative. In that regard, please do not hesitate to contact me in the future on any issue important to you. Also, if you would like to be informed more frequently about my work in Congress and in Florida’s Ninth Congressional District, please visit my website at http://www.bilirakis.house.gov to sign up for regular email or to send me a message.

Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me.

Sincerely yours,
Gus M. Bilirakis
Member of Congress

So, what I get out of these responses (and all of the other responses I have gotten from everyone except my actual congressman) is that a) they are aware of the investigations, b) IF fast and furious comes in front of the full house for a vote, they’ll keep my comments in mind (um, my comments were urging them to begin their own concurrent investigations in the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees). They’re not going to do anything until people actually start forcing them to do something. Come on people. David and Mike have been pushing this as hard as they can, but they are only 2 people (When I met them both at Gravelly Point Park, I didn’t see any duplicates with them). They need our help to get congress to do more. I keep making phone calls and sending emails, what are you doing?
Update:
Oh yeah, I harass them on facebook too: