Does anyone know how Fast and Furious was supposed to work?
What was the goal? How was the plan suppose to work? Who authorized it? What went wrong?
These are VERY SIMPLE questions to answer. I would like to see the MSM starting asking these questions.
“I would like to see the MSM starting asking these questions.”
And that’ll be the day pigs grow wings and fly!
Good luck with that!
What was the goal? How was the plan suppose to work? Who authorized it? What went wrong?
The key questions, and the answer is the key fact.
The only logical conclusion consistent with the actions of the F&F agents is that it was suppose to make it appear that American civilian straw purchased guns were smuggled to Mexican drug cartel killers by having them left at Mexican crime scenes.
Trouble is, this is just work that Americans won't do, so Obama, Holder, Justice and ATF simply did it for them using taxpayer paid ATF agents and taxpayer funds to buy and smuggle the guns to the real drug cartels.
That's why there were no arrests, and no tracking of the guns.
Oversimplified for brevity...
The official goal was to identify international smuggling & criminal use of American-originated guns.
The plan was to direct gun dealers to sell to suspicious buyers, knowing the guns would be smuggled across the border. Under GWB, the guns would be stopped at the border (with the imperative NOTHING crosses the border) and perpetrators arrested. Under (well, _somewhere_ under) BHO, the “stop ‘em at the border” imperative was relaxed and the guns allowed to cross, with the intent that they would later be found at crime scenes and, as such, connections could be traced from violent crimes to known and implicated involvees.
Who authorized it is...problematic. Involving federal gun laws, international crime, foreign diplomacy, and other very-high-level concerns, such an operation MUST be known & authorized by no less than Attorney General Holder (for the domestic criminal factors), Secretary of State Clinton (for foreign issues), and President Obama (for joining the two). Thing is, all of them claim to know nothing...but are refusing to release documented proof of who knew what.
What went wrong was that Border Agent Brian Terry was killed with one of these smuggled guns. So were other US agents.
What went wrong was that other US agents were killed investigating this operation.
What went wrong was that the operation could _only_ succeed if people died. Hundreds of Mexicans did.
What went wrong was that certain high-level administrators were not concerned. Accountability was not demanded. Heads did not roll.
And Senator Issa started investigating.
And a number of involved peons blew a lot of whistles. And gave Issa critical documented proof.
And Holder was just convicted of “contempt of Congress” for not cooperating.
And Issa just published detailed documents with Holder’s fingerprints all over ‘em, detailing what Holder claims didn’t happen or didn’t know.
Oh, and some time back at a fundraiser with a gun-control group, BHO made a cryptic comment about working on “something under the radar”.
Seems the _real_ goal was to invoke international outrage over “lax” US gun laws, thus giving a new path to severe restrictions on the 2nd Amendment.
And what went wrong was a lethal illegal operation was authorized and operated from the highest office ... and all eyes are looking there.
“What was the goal?”
Create a fake gun crisis in Mexico that would result in gun control legislation being rammed down on the public with media help like ObamaCare was.
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