It would appear as though admitting there were more problems within their own spectrum under the Former President Bush that carried over to the current administration is more than Republicans are willing to admit. Attorney General Holder needs to release whatever documents exist about "Gunwalker and Wide Receiver" and it relationship with ATF actions since the inception of planting guns in Mexico to PROVE the existance of weapons exportation to Mexico.
Mr. Issa bemoans Groundhog Day as a marker to their agenda. Give me a break.
...It will be interesting (click title to entry - thank you) to see if the Committee stirs the anthill even further by raising questions about other messed-up operations.
Meanwhile, confidential sources have told The Outdoor Wire about Operation Wide Receiver, another ATF/Justice Department investigation gone bad.
Mounted approximately five years ago out of the Tucson office, Wide Receiver may have actually been the template used -with equally inept results- by the now-infamous Phoenix operations.
In Operation Wide Receiver, Tucson agents allowed the sales of more than 500 firearms to known straw purchasers. Like Gunrunner/Fast and Furious, the operation apparently backfired.
Some firearms in Wide Receive were equipped with RFID tracking devices. In Wide Receiver, it seems the illegal purchasers seemed more than slightly knowledgeable of the way the ATF and how to take their aerial and electronic tracking procedures down.
Knowing the time aloft numbers for virtually all planes used in government surveillance, the buyers had a simple method of getting their purchases across the border undetected. They simply drove four-hour loops around the area.
As surveillance planes were forced to return to base for re-fueling, the smugglers simply turned and sprinted their cargo across the border.
The RFID tags also turned out to be problematic....
Why it is that Arizona always turns up as more problematic than any other state on the border?
