Posted on 09/28/2011 6:48:33 PM PDT by george76
They were being stored for shipment to Mexico, documents show. It's the first case of vanished weapons from the surveillance program showing up on this side of the border outside the Phoenix area.
A cache of assault weapons lost in the ATF's gun-trafficking surveillance operation in Phoenix turned up in El Paso, where it was being stored for shipment to Mexico, according to new internal agency emails and federal court records.
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Under the program, dubbed Fast and Furious, agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Phoenix field office allowed licensed firearm dealers to sell weapons to illegal "straw" buyers in the hope that the agents could track the weapons and arrest Mexican drug cartel leaders.
Instead, more than 2,000 weapons were trafficked along the U.S.-Mexico border, and many were used in violent crimes in Mexico. In addition, two AK-47 semi-automatics involved in the program were recovered after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed south of Tucson, and two others were found after a violent confrontation with state police officers in Maricopa, Ariz.
The El Paso case is the first example of Fast and Furious weapons turning up on this side of the border outside the Phoenix area.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Gunrunning Informant Used Taxpayer Money to Buy Drugs, Possibly Guns, Lawmakers Allege
Gosh, we might want to check our outhouses, there could be a cache of 50MM’s out there by now.
Whats the problem here???...I know if the Mexican Police or Colombian Police showed up at my door Id cooperate...they're Police ain't they!
Hrm....sounds mighty convenient....this happened last year...all the sudden...
Don't you have to want to know where something is, before it can become "lost?"
It started in Spring 2009
ATF Fast and Furious guns turned up in El Paso,
Gunrunning Informant Used Taxpayer Money to Buy Drugs, Possibly Guns, Lawmakers Allege
. . . . Article, then link at # 2.
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| Considering the level of stupidity on display at ATF, the agency might want to consider an insanity defense. In a sane world, Congress would impeach at least the Department heads involved and depending on his involvement take impeachment action against the President himself. Instead, he's running for re-election. |
Have another muffin Eric.
Lets not forget the grenades the batf supplied the cartels.
CNN had an item on F&F this evening.
Move along. Nothing to see. Janet told us our borders are as safe as ever. That half dried up river stops all criminal elements.
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