Posted on 03/28/2011 11:15:28 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
Congress and the Department of Justice appear to be headed for a showdown this week over documents detailing Operation Fast and Furious, the botched gunrunning sting set up by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that funneled more than 1,700 smuggled weapons from Arizona to Mexico.
The Justice Department has until Wednesday to deliver to congressional investigators a stack of records and emails naming the individuals responsible for the gun trafficking operation that may have killed dozens, if not hundreds of Mexicans, and is becoming a growing embarrassment for the Obama administration.
Under Project Gunrunner and the Phoenix off-shoot, dubbed Fast and Furious, the ATF encouraged gun store owners to sell to straw buyers -- consumers who they suspected of working on behalf of Mexican drug cartels.
Project Gunrunner purposely allowed the straw buyers to illegally buy and export guns only to see where they surfaced in Mexico. Using this investigative technique, the ATF hoped to take down the entire gun trafficking organization. Instead, records show it allowed more than 1,700 guns, including hundreds of AK-47s and high-powered, armor-piercing .50-caliber rifles to be trafficked to Mexico
Buying guns for non-personal use is illegal. Yet gun store owners were assured by ATF agents the buyers were under investigation and the guns were being intercepted before crossing into Mexico.
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WADR, don’t get your hopes up that ANYONE in the House or Senate will actually DO anything to see the perpetrators brought to justice.
I certainly wouldn’t look to the republicans to do much more than huff & puff. They’re a spineless bunch who need the ATF and other jack boot orgs to do their dirty work just as much as the tards do. The entire bunch are corrupt to the core.
My prediction is in the end no one exc low level types will get in trouble for this. After a slap on the wrist they’ll wind up being promoted in another govt agency. The real perpetrators are Too Big to be prosecuted. The MSM will assist by making all it of a non-news event.
I agree. I seem to remember some other details about all this when it first got started. Something that seemed like the ATf were purposely trying to pad the number of American guns being “found” in Mexico.
I think it’s because the administration got called out to prove the charged they were making last year about America supplying the weapons for the cartels. Everyone KNEW that was a big ol’ lie when they tried to float it.
All the while making speeches about how the gun stores were facilitating the flow of weapons across the border.
I wonder how many people are going to get run over by the bus on this one.
Beck may also be doing a show on this soon, it will put more sun light on the issue.
zer0 needs a bigger bus.
Any guess where all those records went because I surmise Issa will get squat.
BINGO blackdog!! There is ample evidence that these are the ATF’s MO! Fortunately in this case, a couple of agents had enough integrity to blow the whistle when the murders of fellow federal agents happened...
JC
Will they be under this administration? Don't make me laugh...
Fox as is becoming normal is late, they’ve been scooped by CBS! Both were scooped by a pair of intrepid 2nd A bloggers....this has DOJ/ATF major coverup and will put a lot of pressure on BO’s gungrabbing hopes.
Maybe the smirking/leggy Megan Kelley will get on this???
And almost 50% of the people in this country will say “Obama said he didn’t know about it and I believe him.”
And when they’re asked “Don’t you think he SHOULD have known about it?”
They’ll reply, “Not really.”
This was not a botched investigation. The fact that it is being reported as such means no one will ask the hard questions.
What this really was, was a botched black ops designed to increase the number of American guns in Mexico so they could blame U.S. gunmakers, dealers, and gun using citizens.
"The allegation -- that ATF 'sanctioned' or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser who then transported them into Mexico -- is false," he wrote.
This does not compute.
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