[Smogger]

Can anyone explain what they possibly hoped to accomplish with this exercise?

[FreedomForce]

They hoped to inflate the numbers of firearms in Mexico that were traceable to being sold in the U.S. then use that to try to restrict Americans’ right to keep and bear arms.

[FR_addict]

“Can someone explain what they possibly hoped to accomplish with this exercise?”

They wanted to be able to say that Mexico was getting their guns from the USA and we needed to ban all gun sales and gun ownership in the USA.

[Traveler59]

Can anyone explain what they possibly hoped to accomplish with this exercise?

I'll hypothesize that the current administration was hoping that the violence in Mexico would spill over into the Southern U.S. and thereby allowing the Obmination administration to force through congress some rather draconian gun control laws. Just my take on this.

[archy]

Can anyone explain what they possibly hoped to accomplish with this exercise?

Certainly. Eric Holder and his underlings were on the payroll of the Mexican drug cartels, and were providing their amigos the weapons so that they could overthrow the barely-elected government of Mexico and establish a permanent safe haven for their joint narcotics peddling operations in the United States.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Scalps.
Grassley’s lodge pole has some already.

[Nuc 1.1]

They intended to blame gun shops and gun shows for this and thereby abridge the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. And they almost got away with it.

[okie01]

Can anyone explain what they possibly hoped to accomplish with this exercise?

Actually, it's pretty obvious. They hoped to undermine the Second Amendment.

Several months ago, Obama, Holder and Hillary all raised the concern that the border needed to be closed -- so as to keep all those uncontrolled weapons purchased at gun shows and gun dealers from being shipped into Mexico.

That was obviously the beginning of a contrived move to undermine the 2nd Amendment -- since they knew that the USG was the actual source of the "uncontrolled weaponry".

This constitutes a provable conspiracy to subvert the Bill of Rights -- originating at the very pinnacle of the government.

Unprecedented. And monstrous.

[TLI]

Can anyone explain what they possibly hoped to accomplish with this exercise?

Issa is ON it!

So finally, Congressman Issa came out and asked Special Agent Forcelli if the real objective might not be much more sinister (also in sidebar video):

Issa: I am going to follow a line of questioning I think I have been seeing develop throughout here with law enforcement experts. You have two points, you know the old expression, you connect the dots. The first point is the straw buyer; the last point is the scene of the crime. You've said, each of you, Special Agents, that in this case, as soon as you got to the next point of connect the dots, you were generally sent the other direction. You were not allowed to go beyond that next point. You weren't even allowed to follow that next point, even when they headed north with the weapons.

Now, if an operation like Fast and Furious seems to have a pattern, a consistent pattern, that you're only looking for two points--the beginning and the end--it's not a criminal prosecution. It's not an effective one. Plus, of course, if you take the logic that you can't prosecute a straw purchaser if the gun is in Mexico, if you take that point, then that part of it was frivolous from the start, even though today, every one of those straw purchasers has been charged, oddly enough, with the evidence that was available before that gun ever walked beyond the first step.

So let me just ask a question for your supposition, but I think it's a very well educated one. If you only look at the beginning and the end of the dot, isn't the only thing you've proven is that guns in America go to Mexico? Now could that be a political decision? Could that be a decision that basically, we just want to substantiate that guns in America go to Mexico--something we all knew, but would have considerable political impact, as Mexico began complaining about these, and they could say, "Well, yeah--we're even rolling up the straw purchasers." It wouldn't change the fact that Mexicans were dying at the behest of the United States, but wouldn't it ultimately meet a political goal?

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-st-louis/issa-asks-the-question-at-gunwalker-hearing-anti-gunners-scramble-for-excuses?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Darrell Issa...

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