AP Story Leaves Out Key Point on Fast and Furious

Townhall ^ | 4 Oct 2011 | Katie Pavlich

[Meet the New Boss]

The Associated Press is reporting the following:

"The federal government under the Bush administration ran an operation that allowed hundreds of guns to be transferred to suspected arms traffickers — the same tactic that congressional Republicans have criticized President Barack Obama's administration for using, two federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

"When Bush, a Republican, was president, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Tucson, Ariz., used a similar enforcement tactic in a program it called Operation Wide Receiver. The fact that there were two such ATF investigations years apart in separate administrations raises the possibility that agents in still other cases may have allowed guns to "walk."

The problem is, the "same tactic" under heavy criticism by the House Oversight Committee was not used under President Bush.

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Project Gunrunner involved the surveillance of straw purchasers buying weapons, but those purchasers were immediately apprehended before crossing back into Mexico or tranferring arms to dangerous criminals. Shortly after Obama took office, Operation Fast and Furious allowed straw purchasers working for Mexican drug cartels to purchase mass amount of weapons in the United States and then take them back to Mexico in addition to allowing them to be lost at stash houses and tranferred to dangerous cartel members.

[TigersEye]

What if you RFID weapons with every intention to track them and your plan is foiled by the bad guys VS You let loose weapons with no tracking system in place? Bush method vs Obama method. ...would BOTH of those scenarios be considered “gunwalking”?

According to the agent's deposition it is not 'walking' if you lose contact with the perps and guns unintentionally. They make it very clear that letting a gun 'walk' is purely and only an intentional act. It is very much worth reading that ATF report. It is moderately long but it clarifies a lot about this whole mess.

Only the media and the Rats want to extend the definition of 'walking' to unintentionally letting the guns out of their control.

[AliVeritas]

Well, they have said weapon from the border officer’s murder, check it. Providing it doesn’t go missing, has been tampered with, etc..

[GOPJ]

...Project Gunrunner involved the surveillance of straw purchasers buying weapons, but those purchasers were immediately apprehended before crossing back into Mexico or tranferring arms to dangerous criminals. Shortly after Obama took office, Operation Fast and Furious allowed straw purchasers working for Mexican drug cartels to purchase mass amount of weapons in the United States and then take them back to Mexico...

The press is cutting their own throat... The "Bush did it too" is so lame - and wrong.

[Interesting Times]

AP - American Pravda.