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To: Renderofveils
Is “Fast and Furious” the new name for the program called “Gunwalker”?

They are two separate programs.

Now I'm confused...how is this program different than Gunwalker?

14 posted on 07/06/2011 3:45:34 PM PDT by NRG1973
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To: NRG1973
Now I'm confused...how is this program different than Gunwalker?

It certainly is confusing. My interpretation:

Project Gunrunner - Started in GWB administration, had some success

Operation Fast and Furious - Offshoot/part of Project Gunrunner, re-purposed to support Obama's lie that 90% of the cartels' guns were coming from US

Project Gunwalker - a blogger's nickname for Operation Fast and Furious which plays on the original project's Gunrunner name and the fact that US agents allowed/facilitated the guns walking across the border

32 posted on 07/06/2011 4:00:29 PM PDT by Bob
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To: NRG1973
Now I'm confused...how is this program different than Gunwalker?

Project Gunrunner, often referred to with the sarcastic term "Gunwalker" is an ATF program that started in the mid 2000's. FFL's (Federal Firearms Licensees) in the border areas were asked to report suspicious transactions and those weapons would be entered into an ATF tracking database. When possible the suspected straw purchaser was tracked down and arrested.

Operation Fast and Furious is an offshoot of the Gunrunner program based in Phoenix. It was essentially an expansion of the Gunrunner MO with the stated purpose of tracking weapons to drug cartels. The difference with F&F is that ATF didn't arrest anyone. The weapons got sold, were entered in the database and accounted for only when they showed up at a crime scene....such as the shooting of Brian Terry.

34 posted on 07/06/2011 4:03:48 PM PDT by Tucsonican
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To: NRG1973

>Now I’m confused...how is this program different than Gunwalker?<

They are the same program.


132 posted on 07/06/2011 6:40:16 PM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: NRG1973
ATF had it's op, DEA and FBI had their ops.

What do you expect from Fed Bureaucrats.

155 posted on 07/06/2011 7:43:37 PM PDT by Marty62 (Marty60)
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