Posted on 10/20/2011 4:39:43 AM PDT by marktwain
As a former police officer, I have been struggling with the account of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives‘ (ATF) bizarre “Fast and Furious” gun-running operation (” ‘Fast & Furious’: How botched operation spawned fatal results,” Page 1, Tuesday). This program was set up to identify and arrest the Mexican cartel leaders who were funding the supposed “steel pipeline” of guns coming from the United States into Mexico. But I can’t figure out just how that was supposed to be done, especially since the ATF agents in Mexico were not informed.
Neither, apparently, were the Mexican authorities. Just who was going to follow up on the weapons once they were in Mexico? What does appear to be obvious is that there is no real proof of this “steel pipeline” beyond the guns bought through this program. There also seemed to be little discussion among senior ATF leadership about the dubious morality of selling hundreds of weapons to cartels that had already killed thousands of people. That discussion only started when these weapons were used to kill a U.S. Border Patrol agent inside the United States. And that discussion was not about the morality of the program; it was apparently about covering everyone’s collective posteriors as quickly as possible.
One might be drawn to the conclusion that the real objective of this program had nothing whatsoever to do with gun-running to the cartels, but was instead intended to establish that American gun dealers (most of whom objected to supporting this program) were irresponsible in selling guns to notorious criminal elements. That is the only excuse for actually letting the guns cross the border into Mexico to kill people. This program was not about taking down the cartels; it seems like it was more about building the justification
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Gunwalker ping.
I believe that no one will see a day in jail for this. I hope I am wrong.
Forget ATF’s “involvement”.
This was policy—designed to justify an attack on the 2nd ammendment.
This came from Barry Sotero Hissself.
Nobody else.
Exactly.
Walk-a-bye, baby.
Not just the ATF. The crimes seem to go much higher than that!
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last week i read that the ATF wasn’t even the lead organization on this - DEA was.
...and certainly this had the support and approval from the top.
Grassley & Issa name Holder's "Dirty Dozen" of Gunwalker conspirators at the DOJ.
Gunwalker and Fast & Furious Updates: Holder, DOJ, FBI, Operation Castaway, ATFEmail Confirms ‘Gunwalker’ Known Throughout Justice Department The October 27, 2009 email from ATF Phoenix Field Division Special Agent in Charge (SAC) William Newell regarded a Southwest Border Strategy Group meeting that focused on Fast and Furious. It contained a laundry list of high ranking Justice Department officials that attended the meeting, including:
* Assistant Attorney General (Criminal Division) Lanny Breuer, * Kenneth Melson, Acting Director, ATF * William Hoover, Acting Deputy Director, ATF * Michele Leonhart, Administrator, DEA * Robert Mueller, Director FBI
Four other Justice Department directors or their representatives came from the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), Bureau of Prisons (BOP), U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), and the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA). The chair of the Attorney Generals Advisory Committee (AGAC) also attended the session. Their names were redacted in the released document. U.S. attorneys for all four southwest border states also attended...
The quartermaster Corps for Murder, Inc.
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