Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Fast and the Furious
Botched sting? No way! No one is so stupid to sell guns to cartels to "track them."
Their goal was to "find the guns later" and then "show how they were getting them from the US." Gun control has little support in Congress. The only way that the leftist Obama regime could take away guns from law abiding citizens was to manufacture a crisis.
Rahm Emmanuel said "never let a crisis go to waste." Holder doubles down an manufactures the crisis to not let go to waste. Of course, it backfired on them and now a border agent is dead.
What did Holder and Napolitano know, and when did they know it?
Their goal was to "find the guns later" and then "show how they were getting them from the US." Gun control has little support in Congress. The only way that the leftist Obama regime could take away guns from law abiding citizens was to manufacture a crisis.
Rahm Emmanuel said "never let a crisis go to waste." Holder doubles down an manufactures the crisis to not let go to waste. Of course, it backfired on them and now a border agent is dead.
What did Holder and Napolitano know, and when did they know it?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration announced on Tuesday a major shake-up of the U.S. agency that botched an attempt to track weapons smuggled to drug cartels in Mexico after guns were allowed to flow freely over the border.Kenneth Melson, who has been acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives since 2009, was reassigned after admitting mistakes in the sting operation meant to try to crack down on weapons reaching violent drug gangs from U.S. gun stores.In further fallout from the operation, the U.S. attorney for Arizona, Dennis Burke, has resigned effective immediately after acknowledging mistakes in the operation. The lead prosecutor on the case, Emory Hurley, has also been reassigned, an Obama administration official said.Another administration official said the shake-up at ATF was a chance for a "fresh start given everything they've gone through lately."
The sting operation, dubbed "Fast and Furious," has spawned congressional and internal Justice Department probes and put the Obama administration on the defensive about whether dangerous weapons were knowingly allowed to cross the border.
Authorities had hoped they would be able to follow the guns to cartel leaders, but ATF agents did not track the weapons after they were transferred from the initial buyer to others who smuggled them across the border. Some agents have testified that they were not allowed to continue the pursuit.Attorney General Eric Holder and Melson both issued statements but steered clear of any comments about the controversy. Holder has referred the entire matter to the department's inspector general for an investigation.
