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  • Fast and Furious 'scandal' is a Republican red herring: What we really need are tougher gun laws

    11/20/2011 5:12:46 PM PST · by neverdem · 71 replies
    NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ^ | November 18 2011 | Carolyn Maloney
    Eric Holder is being blamed for a program that is not his creation Miller Elisa/Elisa Miller for NewsRepublicans are roasting AG Eric Holder over an ATF program that precedes him by several years. Operation Fast and Furious, the attempt to stop gun trafficking into Mexico gone horribly wrong, is now providing political fodder for a Washington game of “gotcha” that underscores everything wrong with our political system. In Fast and Furious, federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents allowed guns illegally purchased at American gun shops by Mexican gun-runners to be taken back to Mexico, with the hope that...