What on earth was the rationale behind “Fast and Furious”?
Was it conceived in the irrational leftist belief that if you give your enemies and violent criminals everything they want, they will become nice people?
I just don’t get it.
Fast and Furious was a PR campaign for gun control.
The idea was to get hundreds of guns sold in the US to private individuals across the border in to Mexico and thereby in to the hands of Mexican criminals.
These guns illegally imported in to Mexico would then be used in crimes; specifically murders.
The guns would then be traced back to their point of sale in the US.
Then the PR campaign could begin to place onerous restrictions on the sale of small arms to private individuals all in the name of the innocent Mexican victims.
The UN treaty on small arms of course is a huge part of this plan.
Fast & Furious was conceived as an attack on our 2nd Amendment rights.
The idea was to get enough American-sourced weapons into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels that it would feed a demand for new controls on the sale of weapons in the US.
Despite the (spurious) stated intentions of Fast & Furious, there was no attempt whatsoever to track the weapons once they left the gun stores. Some ATF agents were puzzled by this and actually bought tracking devices out of their own pockets.
Obama, Holder and Hillary all began making noises about the 'plague of American-sourced weapons' that were somehow falling into the hands of the cartel just before the scheme was inadvertently revealed by the shooting of Brian Terry, a Border Patrol agent.
Well, you have had some good informational responses to your question.
But all the responses leave out one important comment. That is, the GOP members of Congress have done NOTHING to get to the bottom of this treason.
My God, we had government officials PLEADING THE FIFTH!
I pray that when it comes to Fast & Furious, that President Trump will eschew any talk and activity of being a ‘unifier’ and will move quickly to reopen the investigation, this time with the full prosecutorial capacity and intensity of the DOJ.
Holder, Obama and so many others need to be held accountable. This was treason against the United States, pure and simple.
Perhaps the reason was to get people killed, and then use that as an excuse for more gun control.
I have been working for a small federal law enforcement agency for the last 8 years. In that time I have never worked with anybody, in either DOJ or DHS, that purposely put contraband into play. There has always been an overabundance of concern and planning to avoid losing either guns, drugs, or anything else illegal during an investigation. That means burning the case before loosing the contraband.
For ATF to purposely let guns go is so far out of touch with reality that other agencies in AZ stopped working with them.