Posted on 03/17/2011 7:52:02 PM PDT by Sprite518
Hoping to score a major prosecution of Mexican drug lords, federal prosecutors and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives permitted hundreds of guns to be purchased and retained by suspected straw buyers with the expectation they might cross the border and even be used in crimes while the case was being built, according to documents and interviews. Breaking News
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Click here to read documents and interviews related to the investigation. Redactions were made by the Senate Judiciary Committee to protect the identities of confidential informants, undercover agents and cooperating gun stores.
The decision — part of a Phoenix-based operation code named “Fast and Furious” — was met by strong objections from some front-line agents who feared they were allowing weapons like AK-47s to “walk” into the hands of drug lords and gun runners, internal agency memos show. Indeed, scores of the weapons came back quickly traced to criminal activity.
One of those front-line agents who objected, John Dodson, 39, told the Center for Public Integrity that these guns “are going to be turning up in crimes on both sides of the border for decades.” Dodson said in an interview that “with the number of guns we let walk, we’ll never know how many people were killed, raped, robbed … there is nothing we can do to round up those guns. They are gone.”
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Bang List bump!
This one may have legs. We’ll see.
[inhaling deeply]
Correction, he let THOUSANDS of guns fall into the hands of drug cartels. No telling how many people have been murdered with those weapons.
This was IMO an illegal conspiratorial attempt to violate our 2nd amendment Constitutional Rights. A number of people should be in jail right now pronto. Its also a circumvention of the Neutrality Act.
How many kilos of cocaine or counterfeit money have walked?
Key witness/suspect flees for Rio!
I don't know how feeding the lowest rung of the cartel's weapons buying organization is supposed to take down a cartel on the other side of an international border. Especially when you never told the other country. That excuse just doesn't make sense.
Good old BATFE.
The Fed have been telling us that Americans using drugs are the reason that the drug cartels are smuggling drugs into the Unite States. I now wonder just how much of these drugs the United States via the DEA is buying.
The Fed have been telling us that Americans using drugs are the reason that the drug cartels are smuggling drugs into the Unite States. I now wonder just how much of these drugs the United States via the DEA is buying.
The Fed have been telling us that Americans using drugs are the reason that the drug cartels are smuggling drugs into the Unite States. I now wonder just how much of these drugs the United States via the DEA is buying.
Sorry, I did not mean to post 3 times.
I got an error message three times and tried again therr times. My bad
LOL, in fact, last I heard, the United States does NOT have an extradition treaty with Brazil.
It really should be noted that anytime there is a huge federal law enforcement Charlie foxtrot the ATF is always involved...
Bingo! All they do is lie to us while we try our best to be good citizens and pay our taxes.
The conspirators should be tracked down and served hot justice, no matter how high the trail leads.
I wouldn’t have any problem with this if they could get the guns into the hands of your average mexican, rather than the drug cartels. Of course, the majority of the cartel’s guns come from the U.S. government anyway, properly laundered through the mexican military. Hint: They aren’t buying their grenades from Texas gun shops!
***Good old BATFE.****
Making an ass of themselves ever since the 1968 gun control act was passed.
I remember when they raided an antique gun store in Tulsa OK, because the store had imported, in violation of the 1968 GCA, FOREIGN MILITARY ARMAMENTS,...European made Musket flints.
And then there was that Kevin Ballew thing in DC area in which they raided and shot the homeowner for having “illegal guns”. A copy of a Walker Colt black poweder pistol.
This supposed motivation of the BATF doesn't pass the smell test. How was this supposed prosecution supposed to work? The drug lords are already engaged in numerous violations of law, but are beyond prosecution because they are in a sovereign country where the rule of law has pretty much broken down. How does fostering their accumulating of low level small arms from the US make prosecuting them any easier?
It doesn't, really, but it does up the statistics of guns in Mexico obtained from US gun stores, making the case for more US government infringements of Second Amendment rights to the MSM. Building BATF statistics of American guns in Mexico seems a far more likely and plausible motive than building an improbable case against Mexican drug lords.
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