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Forget Operation Fast and Furious? Not with bodies still piling up
Dallas Morning News ^ | July 10, 2013 | Masthead Editorial

Posted on 07/12/2013 1:04:01 PM PDT by neverdem

Before we knew that the IRS was targeting conservative groups, what a mess the Obama administration would make of Benghazi, or the Justice Department’s monitoring of selected journalists — even before Edward Snowden and his national security leaks — there was Operation Fast and Furious.

If you accept the government line, Fast and Furious was an ATF-Justice Department operation that supposedly would allow guns illegally straw-purchased in Arizona to reach suspected Mexican narco-terrorists. ATF agents would follow the supply chain, recover the guns and make arrests.

It worked perfectly — except for the parts about following the guns, recovering them and arresting bad guys. Instead, the ATF almost immediately lost track of about 2,000 high-powered weapons, which began turning up at U.S. and Mexican crime scenes.

U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was ambushed by drug smugglers Dec. 15, 2010, near Nogales, Ariz., with a Fast and Furious gun found nearby. If not for that tragedy — and the courage of ATF field agents who risked their careers to blow the whistle on this spectacularly ill-conceived plan — Americans still might not know.

In Mexico, they have known for some time. Officials there have attributed more than 200 deaths to Fast and Furious weapons. A Justice Department document made public this month by the Los Angeles Times’ Richard A. Serrano reveals what may be the most recent: Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, police chief in the town of Hostotipaquillo, was shot to death Jan. 29 when gunmen opened fire on his patrol car. One bodyguard was killed and the chief’s wife and a second bodyguard wounded.

Hostotipaquillo, in Jalisco state in central-western Mexico, is nearly 1,000 miles from the Phoenix suburb where the semiautomatic WASR rifle was sold Feb. 22, 2010. The 26-year-old buyer would plead guilty to conspiracy, making false statements and smuggling goods from...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; benghazi; fastandfurious; gunrunner; impeachnow; irs; murdergate

1 posted on 07/12/2013 1:04:01 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: Travis McGee; Joe Brower; MestaMachine
BANG! Maybe there's a difference now that left has resumed its unabashed gun grabbing agenda. November 2014 will be interesting, IMHO.
2 posted on 07/12/2013 1:09:41 PM PDT by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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To: neverdem
Making its way back into the public conciousness?


3 posted on 07/12/2013 1:23:59 PM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: neverdem

What difference does it make???? (Sarc off)


4 posted on 07/12/2013 1:26:39 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: neverdem

Just more bumps in the road...

5 posted on 07/13/2013 3:53:24 PM PDT by Bon mots
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