To begin an intelligent discussion regarding a program by the ATF used to investigate gun running into Mexico after the NRA and Murdoch has gotten a hold of it is like closing the door after the horse got out. But, a good place to start is that ATF is responsible for such activities anywhere in the country. Guns originating in the USA with WIDE OPEN GUN laws as advocated by the NTA including assault weapons is a known commodity with the drug cartels in Mexico. NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox Calls for Expedited Hearings into BATFE Investigative Tactics (click title to entry - thank you)
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
On March 9, NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox sent letters to key leaders in Congress calling for hearings to examine the firearms trafficking investigations tactics employed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Those tactics have allegedly allowed firearms to fall into the hands of Mexican criminal organizations, with the knowledge of the BATFE....
To realize the 'verbiage' by the NRA and its pundits surrounding this topic is about the LACK of gun control is a huge joke. So one has to immediately wonder the validity at all in their complaints. However, this NRA awareness started with a complaint from Mexico.
If the Plutocary wasn't seeking footing on a slippery slope regarding the 2012 elections this wouldn't even be on the NRA's radar.
By admin
March 6, 2011
Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is asking the U.S. government for details about ATF’s “Fast and Furious” operations. As our CBS News Investigation has revealed, “Fast and Furious” was a secret program under which, sources say, ATF purposely allowed thousands of assault rifles and other weapons from the U.S. into the hands of drug cartels in Mexico. Insiders call it letting the guns “walk.”
The idea was to supposedly see where the guns ended up and use the information to take down a major cartel….
The picture above is an NRA agent. If the agency was attempting to carry out investigations they would not send any guns anywhere that could be used against them and kill their agents. Additioanlly, we have seen investigations like this before in other agencies of the government, namely the FBI seeking Passports from the federal Treasury Department to realize national security was not a high priority under the Bush White House.
This practice is not unusual, the question outstanding remains, especially to Mexico, was the ATF successful in obtaining information that was benevolent. I am curious who leaked a letter from Mexico to the USA to the press.
Arizona News from The Arizona Republic
The Arizona Republic? Really? I guess that is like the 'Savage Nation' mess that goes on.
ATF Mexican gun-smuggling sting scrutinized (click here)
by Dennis Wagner on Mar. 05, 2011, under Arizona Republic News
Newly released U.S. records and assertions by a government whistle-blower support allegations that government agents allowed hundreds of firearms to be smuggled across the Arizona border and into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.The records, released by a member of Congress, have prompted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to call for an independent review of a campaign designed to dismantle Mexican crime syndicates that purportedly wound up arming them instead.
The Arizona Republic reported last month that investigators have confirmed that two weapons connected to the ATF operations were found at the scene of a December gunbattle near Rio Rico, Ariz., where Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed by suspected border bandits….
