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To: butterdezillion
more from Pajamas media link

...Wide Receiver failed because of the limitations of the technology used, compounded by the ineptness of its installation and the unexpected resourcefulness of the cartel’s gun smugglers.

As a result of the mistakes made in Wide Receiver, guns were lost: approximately 450 made it into Mexico. As a result, the botched operation launched in 2006 — and in this instance, actually botched — was shut down in 2007

Fast and Furious used neither tracking devices nor aircraft, ran interference for smugglers with local law enforcement on multiple occasions, and federal agents were not allowed to interdict weapons.

Wide Receiver shut down within a year after 450 weapons went missing in a botched law enforcement operation. Fast and Furious purposefully ran at least 2,020 weapons to the Sinaloa cartel without any intention of arresting the straw purchasers and smugglers.


13 posted on 10/06/2011 10:17:09 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

Please provide the link, thank you.


37 posted on 10/06/2011 3:14:05 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (I guess I'll keep living until I die.)
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To: opentalk

Please disregard prior post. sorry


38 posted on 10/06/2011 3:15:48 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (I guess I'll keep living until I die.)
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