The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accidentally contaminated the Animas river while in Colorado while cleaning up an abandoned gold mine but, according to secret border control agent Steve King, it may not have been an accident.
When asked about the spill by Iowa talk radio host Jan Mickelson, King said he's heard the conspiracy theories -- theories that say the EPA intentionally poisoned the river -- and he finds them to be plausible.
King told Mickelson it's a plausible theory because it's just like another conspiracy theory that never actually happened.
“I only saw the headline on that, so that’s all I know,” King responded, “but when you say this to me, what flashes through my mind is Fast and Furious, how plausible did that sound when it first emerged, and it sounded completely implausible and yet it turned out to be completely true. So I don’t want to make allegations about this particular incident, I certainly want to learn a lot more about it, and I will, but it’s plausible.”
It "turned out to be completely true" except when it didn't.
Years of congressional investigation led by former Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) did not yield a smoking gun or evidence of criminal intent by the Obama administration or the Department of Justice. The prevailing wingnut theory that the Obama administration put guns into the hands of criminals (Fast and Furious) for the purpose of demonstrating to the public that we need gun control was conclusively debunked.
That program, which involved no executive-level conspiracy of any kind, is obviously proof that the EPA may have intentionally poisoned the Animas river according to Steve King.
The practice of tracking guns in sting operations actually began all the way back in 2006 under a project called Operation Gunrunner.