The revelations get worse every day. Now Fox News reports that an ATF undercover agent was involved in buying guns with official taxpayer funds, selling them undercover to a known suspect, and then was ordered by his supervisor to break off surveillance prompting a shouting match in the Arizona ATF office.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/26/us-government-bought-and-sold-weapons-during-fast-and-furious-documents-show/?test=latestnews
As a retired DEA agent, I am dumbfounded at these practices involving guns being allowed to go to the Mexican cartels. Not only two Border Patrol agents have been killed with these guns but some estimated 150 Mexicans as well.
It is now time for Supervisor David Voth to be put under oath by the Congressional committee investigating this disgraceful episode.
Sounds like a low-level supervisor taking bribes from
ReplyDeletea) the cartels
b) the NRA
c) Arizona licensed gun dealers who feared being caught by the operation.
All your guesses are wrong. This was a scheme dreamed up in Washington to prove a point about guns being smuggled to gangs in mexico and cut down on 2nd amendment rights.
ReplyDeleteAnd the FBI is investigating it. So in effect the FBI, a part of the Justice Department is investigating itself. Time for the Special Prosecutor.
ReplyDeleteIf the marines are investigating the navy, is there any love lost between them? How about navy and army? Army and air force? Would a special prosecutor be a lawyer with no law enforcement experience, or one who has worked in the justice deparment?
ReplyDeleteAll your guesses about what kind of "scheme" this is, are themselves dreamed up, by people who don't really want to see gun running into Mexico stopped. After all there is money to be made, and who cares of Mexicans kill each other with the weapons? Nobody considers that this profiteering is part of what makes the cartels strong enough to move with impunity into our national parks and wildlife refuges.