Thursday, June 16, 2011

Subpoenas Coming “Fast and Furious” in Probe of DOJ

If ever you've doubted the criminal incompetence of this administration...

GunReports.com
Officials at the Department of Justice are in "panic mode," according to sources reported to Fox News, as word spreads that congressional testimony this week will paint a humiliating picture of Operation Fast and Furious, the botched undercover operation that left a trail of blood from Mexico to Washington, D.C.

The operation was supposed to stem the flow of weapons from the U.S. to Mexico by allowing so-called straw buyers to purchase guns legally in the U.S. and later sell them in Mexico, usually to drug cartels.

Instead, ATF documents show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms knowingly and deliberately flooded Mexico with assault rifles. Their intent was to expose the entire smuggling organization, from top to bottom, but the operation spun out of control and supervisors refused pleas from field agents to stop it, Fox News reported. . .
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