Congress and the Department of Justice appear to be headed for a showdown this week over documents detailing Operation Fast and Furious, the botched gunrunning sting set up by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that funneled more than 1,700 smuggled weapons from Arizona to Mexico.
The Justice Department has until Wednesday to deliver to congressional investigators a stack of records and emails naming the individuals responsible for the gun trafficking operation that may have killed dozens, if not hundreds of Mexicans, and is becoming a growing embarrassment for the Obama administration.
Under Project Gunrunner and the Phoenix off-shoot, dubbed Fast and Furious, the ATF encouraged gun store owners to sell to straw buyers -- consumers who they suspected of working on behalf of Mexican drug cartels. Buying guns for non-personal use is illegal. Yet gun store owners were assured by ATF agents the buyers were under investigation and the guns were being intercepted before crossing into Mexico.
Instead, whistleblowers say the guns were allowed "to walk".
The ATF, what a glorious history of incompetence. They should just shut them down right now. I predict instead Obama or Holder will say the ATF need better management and appoint a new, more, antigun director.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
We, the American people were told we were responsible for all the guns and violence in Mexico. It was shown that a great percentage of guns found there, were from here, and Obama and Napolitano blamed us for that problem. Then the Border Agent was murdered and we discovered that the ATF itself was responsible for those guns going to Mexico.
I, for one, will not accept just a new Director of the ATF being appointed, even if he is pro 2nd Amendment. I want heads to roll, and an APOLOGY to America and Americans for this. I'm sick of their apologizing to the rest of the world for us being the bad guys. I'm sick of being called a potential right wing terrorist just because I am a veteran, believe in 2nd Amendment Rights, smaller government, less taxes, etc. We are not the Enemy dammit!
SS109 wrote: The ATF, what a glorious history of incompetence. They should just shut them down right now. I predict instead Obama or Holder will say the ATF need better management and appoint a new, more, antigun director.
Like all other governmental agencies, it they had more money they could do a better job............
