Editorial: Federal gun-smuggling surveillance program backfires [Project Gunrunner]

Mexican leaders have warned for years that lax U.S. enforcement of gun smuggling was fueling border-area violence, but they should be particularly disturbed to learn that, in some cases, weapons were being deliberately allowed to flow southward.

I'll ask a simple question. Would our government do something like this?

CBS News reported last week about Project Gunrunner, an operation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to track how weapons purchased in U.S. gun stores reached Mexican drug gangs. Had Gunrunner been a limited, tightly focused study, it might have provided useful intelligence to shut down major gun-smuggling operations. Instead, it went badly awry.

The whole paragraph is a joke. The government couldn't cobble together a study regarding the nesting habits of the "Two Tailed Double Red Breasted Finch."

Disturbing recent news reports suggest that federal agents knowingly let arms buyers for Mexican drug cartels smuggle high-powered weaponry across the border, with deadly consequences for U.S. law enforcers

Napolitano has to go.

an ATF operation run amok

Our government is running amok.

I mean it. Why is Napolitano still head of Homeland Security? She should have been gone after those documents calling, well everybody a terrorist.

Look at this spin. Who are they trying to fool?

I heard Rush talking about this...after the CBS report*!

*Shocking*

I saw it on the ‘net last night, and was so proud of the whistle blower! Apparently, Grassley has spoken to other border agents who have verified the story.

“Fast and Furious” is a very lame excuse, IMO.

Something is very wrong here...

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