>>>It’s important to note that the Bush administration oversaw something similar to Fast and Furious. Called Operation Wide Receiver, it used the common tactic of “controlled delivery,” whereby agents would allow an illegal transaction to take place, closely follow the movements of the arms, and then descend on the culprits>>>
A bit different than what the democrats are saying about Bush, huh?
Yes, of course the Demorats conflate and distort and BS. A synopsis of Wide Receiver:
Operation Wide Receiver was a Bush-era BATFE operation run in Tucson, conducted in full coordination with Mexican authorities, that sought to track and interdict guns being smuggled south using a combination of RFID-tracking devices embedded in the shipments and surveillance aircraft. Wide Receiver failed because of the limitations of the technology used, compounded by inept, untested installation, and the unexpected resourcefulness of cartel gun smugglers. As a result of the mistakes made in Wide Receiver, guns were lost: approximately 450 made it into Mexico. This botched operation that was launched in 2006 — and in this instance, actually botched — was shut down in 2007. Compare the unintentional mistakes of Wide Receiver to the deliberate failure of the Fast and Furious operation launched under Eric Holder’s Department of Justice, which had all the advantages of learning from the postmortem failures of Wide Receiver two years before at its immediate disposal.
Yet, unlike Wide Receiver, F&F had no operational basis whatsoever for tracking and interdicting “walked” weapons, and no plan of any kind to support its success. Where Operation Fast and Furious was a multi-agency, multi-department plot involving high-ranking government appointees and possibly elected officials, Operation Wide Receiver was a local BATF operation, using untested new technologies in an attempt to interdict and capture weapons smugglers. Fast and Furious used neither tracking devices nor surveillance aircraft, and ran interference for smugglers with local law enforcement on multiple occasions. Further, unlike Wide Receiver, coordination of the operation with Mexican authorities on the other side of the border was never even attempted, and federal agents of F&F were specifically not allowed to interdict weapons."
http://rinosandrats.com/2011/09/the-gunwalker-scandal-overview-timeline/
Democrats are congenital liars as watch some idiot Dem Cong. Adam Shiff speaking to Greta on Fox.