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Posted on 01/31/2012 11:07:34 AM PST by neverdem
Newly-released documents show that last February, on an official visit to Mexico, Justice Department official Lanny Breuer suggested fighting arms trafficking by using the tactic of intentionally letting guns flow into Mexico via criminals.
According to the documents, Assistant Attorney General Breuer suggested the U.S. and Mexico consider working together to allow arms traffickers for Mexican drug cartels "to cross into Mexico," so that Mexican authorities could later prosecute and convict them.
The documents indicate Mexico's then-attache spoke against Breuer's idea. He "raised the issue that there is an inherent risk in allowing weapons to pass from the US to Mexico; the possibility of the [Government of Mexico] not seizing the weapons; and the weapons being used to commit a crime in Mexico."
The mere suggestion by a high level Justice official that "gunwalking" should be employed raises eyebrows not only because the tactic is considered dangerous, and has since been officially banned by Attorney General Holder; but also because of the timing. The Justice Department had just drafted a letter to Congress denying it would ever use such a tactic. And Congress had just begun investigating the ATF gunwalking operation "Fast and Furious," which had been operating in secret for more than a year.
There's no indication in the documents as to whether Breuer knew at the time of his suggestion that a major gunwalking operation had already been underway for more than a year.
In recent months, Breuer acknowledged he knew of a gunwalking operation called "Wide Receiver" begun under the Bush Administration. Breuer said he never informed Holder that gunwalking had been allowed, even after the controversy over Fast and Furious surfaced.
The idea in Fast and Furious and other gunwalking operations conducted secretly by government agents in...
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The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Let’s have Holder testify “under oath” ....
Ping.
Let’s have Holder testify “under oath” ....
So he can lie again? He might burn down the whole place.
These people think it is a good idea to fight arms trafficking by allowing people to traffic in arms?
Do they also think auto theft can be stooped by allowing people to steal cars? Or bank robberies can be reduced by allowing people to rob banks?
So when’s the racist gun runner going to prison?
All I can think is that Breuer was on a CYA mission: Holder knew they were in hot water for doing this without Mexico's knowledge, so he sent Breuer to Mexico to get their approval after the fact.
Nice work by Sharyl Attkisson. She seems to have new stuff that even the gun blogs don't have.
Breuer was sent to find out what it would cost to get the Mex gov't to spin the part line.
If this had happened under Bush, people would already be in prison.
“part” —> “party”
WayneS,
F & F had nothing to do with arms trafficking.
It was an attempt to show the majority of narco terrorists arms were coming from the U.S. and thus demand much tighter gun controls here in the U.S.
This administration stated many times that 80 percent of illegal arms in Mexico came from illegal U.S. arms and that has been proven to be pure B.S.
Is Bari getting that Bus warmed up and ready to roll ?
Running into himself going around in circles.
Thank you, Joe.
bttt
If just 2 dedicated gun writers had not doggedly pursued this story....
THEN NONE OF THIS WOULD NOW BE BEING REPORTED.
***TWO GUN WRITERS***
THAT is how close we came to the biggest scandal in US history coming to absolutely NOTHING.
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