[Carry_Okie]

That's according to a memo written to the U.S. Attorney in Arizona in July of 2006. Yet ATF went ahead with the so-called "gunwalking," in its operation "Wide Receiver," and later in "Fast and Furious" and numerous other cases.

Well, there goes my respect for Sharyl Atkisson.

There difference between Wide Receiver and Gun Walker is so large that they should not be discussed together. That difference is in intent. Under the former program, the guns had tracking chips. When that didn't work the program was killed. Under the latter, there was not even an attempt to track the weapons over the objections of field agents and Border Patrol agents who were instructed to stand down. Effectively, the Obama Administration was willfully SUPPLYING weapons to the Mexican drug cartels; the Bush Administration was not.

By equating the two, Atkisson is playing into the "Bush's fault" meme, where Holder was supposedly unaware of problems with a continuing program.

[sarasmom]

(The) “difference between Wide Receiver and Gun Walker is so large that they should not be discussed together. That difference is in intent. Under the former program, the guns had tracking chips. When that didn't work the program was killed.”

Sounds like Sharyl Atkisson’s “role” might be to provide media cover for the current administration, via an artistically choreographed reporting of the chain of events, leading to “plausible denial”.

When mixing/contrasting reports of different events/programs, separated by years, it is vital to include both the year and the month, for clarity.

It may sound like nitpicking to the newer generation, but most of us old folks are very familiar with the techniques the media and the government use.
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