Gun-smuggling cartel figures possibly were paid FBI informants.

LA Times ^ | July 17, 2011 | Richard Serrano

[GlockThe Vote]

Wow. Read the rest. Unreal.

[GlockThe Vote]

Bump

[The Bronze Titan]

When are they going to call Holder to testify under oath? Has he done so already. I mean, he either has to spill the beans and tell the “truth”, or he goes to jail for “perjury”? Which is it?

When is this going to happen? - or has it already happened?

[darth]

I wonder if this rumor has been floated so that the cartels will eliminate potential witnesses? In other words, put the word on the street that the gun runners were snitches and the cartel will take care of the problem. That way, no gun runners can be called to testify and the story gets covered up.

It is SOP for spy agencies to pick up one of the enemy’s agents and then let the word leak out that they turned the guy into a double agent. The enemy would then kill their own agent for us.

I never believe anything I see in the MSM. If they print the truth, it’s an accident.

[GlockThe Vote]

I think they are just gathering enough ammo, no pun intended, to nail him to the cross so he can’t wiggle out of trying blend gunrunner and fast and furious.

[arkady_renko]

...which was created in November 2009 in an effort to track guns across the border and unravel the cartels' gun smuggling networks...

Well, I suppose we should be thankful the LA Times is covering this, but I think this sentence is giving Holder credit for something he doesn't deserve. I remember reading here that an e-mail surfaced showing the real reason was to have an excuse for more and stricter gun laws in the US.

[GlockThe Vote]

LA Times has been on this like White on Rice.

[Erik Latranyi]

BATFE allowed firearms to be sold to FBI informants with money from the Stimulus Plan.

Both agencies are under the DOJ......Eric Holder.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So the BATFE was conducting a sting on undercover FBI agents, who were conducting a sting on gun dealers?

That's how I read it.

[GlockThe Vote]

This entire story makes me literally put the govt in a worse light than the cartels and mafia.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Robert Drobot]

How could the AFT be said to have pulling off the Fast and Furious scam, and NOT KNOW the background of the sewer slime they were controlling.

This stinks, but then anything ATF touches is crap. Proof once again; like attacts like.

[WayneS]

It was the only way they could assure the guns would be paid for with U.S. taxpayer money...

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[GlockThe Vote]

This entire fiasco makes me so mad you have no idea.

[GlockThe Vote]

This entire fiasco makes me so mad you have no idea.

[Little Ray]

Read somewhere that, at one time, nearly half the KKK were paid FBI informants. Dues paid by the FBI’s informants were what kept the KKK going...

Probably the same situation here.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This entire story makes me literally put the govt in a worse light than the cartels and mafia.

They aren't worse, they are exactly the same.

[arkady_renko]

Thanks. I wasn’t aware of that.

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