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Note that they appear to be setting up the Ass't AG, Breuer, and that he's taking the stance that the Phoenix office of the ATF came up with this scheme on their own.

He will claim that it was his mistake not to cut it off at its inception, nor did he inform his superior.

How will he explain, though, that the Stimulus Bill (Porkulus) appropriated the funds for Fast & Furious. I don't think the Phoenix office of the ATF was sufficiently powerful to get that line item inserted in the budget.

Further, the operation was actually run out of the office of the US Attorney -- not the ATF. Dennis Burke, the US Attorney for Arizona reports to the AG -- not thru the ATF. Burke was the one-time AG for Arizona...under Gov. Janet Napolitano, now Secretary of Homeland Security.

We also have the FBI and the DEA directly involved in the operation. How did the Phoenix office of the ATF accomplish that?

And here's the clincher: The stated purpose of the operation was to let the guns "walk" across the border into the hands of the carte...and track their route to wherever they ended up.

One problem: absolutely no provision was made to actually "track" the weapons. It was so obvious to the ATF agents in the field that they bought some GPS devices at Radio Shack out of their own pockets and secreted them into some weapons. The batteries expired before they discovered anything, however.

Literally thousands of weapons were moved across the border into Mexico -- with no control or tracking of them whatsoever. The "straw" buyers were given taxpayer money to make the purchases. And the Mexican government was never advised of the program. They still haven't been officially informed.

It is known that at least two American agents met their deaths due to these weapons (Border Patrol's Brian Terry and ICE's Jaime Zapata). And it is estimated that they were responsible for literally hundreds of deaths of innocent Mexicans.

Find all you can. Read all you can. It is an appalling story.

P.S.: It also appears that, while the Phoenix ATF was arming the Sinaloa cartel, the Familia de Michoacana was being supplied out of Indiana gun stores, and the Zetas were being armed thru an agency of the State Department -- via Dallas and Tampa.