Remember, inert grenade bodies and inert fuses are not contraband. It is only when these things are assembled into grenades that they are required to have a
$200 tax stamp with them. Owning grenade bodies and inert fuses is not against the law.
However, some of the empty grenade bodies should have had transmitters in them if they were delivered empty to Kingery and he was taking them to Mexico to fill them.
Risky, yes, but the handle marking was just stupid and deadly to the innocent.
I am constantly amazed how the higher-ups in law enforcement continually fuck up operations. This is not the mark of a professional but of an asskisser in search of a promotion.
Glad this happened on Obama’s watch. Same for Holder, DOJ, ATF, ICE, etc. They all need a purge at the top.
Same mentality was present in upper administrative FBI managers before 9/11. They refused to listen to their agents in the field about what they were seeing that was unusual.