Posted on 09/26/2011 11:25:52 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa cartel - the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic weapons and then watched as the guns disappeared. This disclosure, revealed in documents obtained by Fox News, could undermine Justice's previous defense that Fast and Furious was a "botched" operation where agents simply "lost track" of weapons as they were transferred from one illegal buyer to another. Instead, it heightens the culpability of the federal government as Mexico has opened two criminal investigations into the operation that flooded their country with illegal weapons. Operation Fast and Furious began in 2009 and ATF agents encouraged gun stores to sell weapons to an arms smuggling gang and watched as the guns crossed the border and were used in crimes. In June 2010, however, the ATF dramatically upped the ante, making the U.S. government the actual "seller" of guns.
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Just as we said.
So FNC haters, who else is covering F&F?
What constitution?
I see no stinkin’ constitution.
The government uses taxpayer funds for everything it does, including schemes to destroy the 2nd Amendment. Taxpayer funds need to be used to prosecute Obama and Holder, and give both of them 30 years in the electric chair.
We are going to find a lot of American blood on those guns when this is over. The dead border agents are just the tip of the iceburge when you look at what is happening on the Texas and Arizona borders
There are people out there claiming that the US government “chose” this Sinaola cartel — meaning that they cut some kind of deal with them to run out the other cartels. I don’t know much about that conspiracy theory, but I know it exists and pre-existed the F&F sale. Why they would choose to support one cartel over the others, I dunno. Maybe Machiavellian eg choose one to kill off the others because a monopoly is better than an endless murderous free-for all... or maybe worse.
My point is simply that if federal agencies were selling guns to the Sinaola cartel, it adds fuel to the fire. While they originally said the sale was a ‘sting operation’ to find out how guns flow, they are now saying there never was a sting setup. The fact that the guns went to the same group that elements in the government are alleged to support makes it seem a much larger criminal conspiracy involving several different federal agencies.
It's a typical organized crime tactic...We 'made' you, we can break you type of control.
I can only see one reason for not securing the southern border, especially after 9/11. Someones are getting very rich.
If there is a bigger conspiracy - and I’m not saying there is, just saying that I’ve heard it said - then they would want people to think that they were trying to undermine the 2nd Amendment because we would stop there, and not dig much deeper to find out whether there are several federal agencies working with the Sinaola cartel to give them the upper hand in the Mexican drug wars.
...for those interested. :D
sorry for this "abuse" of the KY. Ping List, Its that important
Clearly they need to raise taxes.
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What a story. You couldn’t make one up like this and have people believe you. Thank God Dodson wasn’t murdered.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/156699-new-dnc-chief-endorses-universal-screenings-for-gun-sales
Notice the date of this article. Now what did Debbie know and when did she know it?
Did anybody ever fear that Sinaloa would have insufficient firepower, walked guns or no?
A lot of someones, by the very banal traffic in plain vanilla illegales.
LA Times. CBS. I think thats it for big organizations.
Thanks for the links
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