in the past it has always been known as gun running so can anyone tell me why now with this admin it is now called gun walking?
Comrade, ANY means can be justified in light of the glorious end goal of global communism and the enlightened golden age of mankind that it will usher in.
I don't think the administration is calling it gun walking. I believe that the term was coined by its opponents to show its similarity to gun running, but those doing it didn't have to move nearly as fast because it had BATF and DoJ approval.
That and "Newspeak".
Obama will throw Holder under the bus sometime in February. That will be that. Something along the lines of a well intentioned group of staffers with insufficient oversight within the DOJ, acting without approval. Holder will resign and collect his $250,000 yearly pension and quietly oversee the community organizing arm of the administration.
The term was coined for this particular program, because the guns were allowed to “walk” over the border into mexico...digging a little deeper into this, not only were the guns allowed to walk across the border, but the atf actively assisted in getting them across the border, with no way to track or trace them once they crossed...
I heard some guy (can't remember who he was, but I think he was with the BATFE?) explain this on TV. It's internal lingo within the bureau -- a gun is referred to as a "walking" gun when they lose track of it and no longer know where it is. So in terms of this debacle, the monicker of "gun walker" is quite appropriate.