President Obama is hiding behind big government in the hopes that a scandal will fade away.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) is set to issue a number of subpoenas to federal officials who have ties to “Fast and Furious,” a secret program
run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) that put thousands of semi-automatic firearms into the hands of Mexican drug
cartels.
Fast and Furious was a new addition to the ATF’s now-defunct “Project Gunrunner” program. It authorized (“pressed” is probably a more
accurate word) U.S. gun stores located near the Mexican border to sell thousands of semi-automatic firearms to suspected and known straw-purchasers
(those who buy guns for someone who can’t do so legally). The idea, apparently, was that the guns would lead the ATF to the heads of the cartels.
Dec. 14, 2010. That day, during a late-night shootout between the U.S. Border Patrol and armed Mexican illegals in a remote canyon near Nogales,
Ariz., 41-year-old federal agent Brian Terry was shot and killed. killed with a gun the ATF allowed into the hands of known Cartel members... now
heads will
roll...
I guess we'll have to wait to see how high up the ladder this shake out will take us...
Edit to add the link to the story.
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