House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) Wednesday issued a subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder and other Justice Department officials over the gun-trafficking operation, dubbed “Operation Fast And Furious.”
“Top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Holder, know more about Operation Fast and Furious than they have publicly acknowledged,” said Issa in a statement.
The operation, which the the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began in November 2009, facilitated the sale of weaponry to Mexican drug cartels in a flawed effort to locate criminals. Over 2,000 guns went virtually unaccounted for and the guns ended up at deadly crime scenes on both sides of the border.
Issa, along with other members of Congress, are skeptical of Holder’s testimony in May that he had known about the program for only a few weeks, while Republicans say that memos show he knew of the program as early as July 2010.
The wisdom of dispersing arms and deadly weapons to violent Mexican drug cartels has been questioned, especially since the violence associated with these groups has been on a dramatic rise as of late.
Also, arms smuggling between the US and Mexico are hitting record highs in recent years. Ammunition seizures along Arizona’s border with Mexico, for example, have increased more than 125-fold since 2007. US authorities have confiscated over 95,000 rounds so far this fiscal year, compared to just 760 rounds four years ago.
Adding to the heightened militaristic nature of the drug war, the primary US efforts at curbing drug production, trade, and violence has been to empower Latin American armies and paramilitary groups and expand domestic law enforcement roles to abusive new levels. This, of course, has had deadly results.
Holder: "Don't look at me, look over there! 3 headed monkey! Evil Iranians, evil Mexican drug bosses and Saudis"
“the primary US efforts at curbing drug production, trade, and violence”
A no logic statement, like saying the primary effort of cancer is to curb bad health.
hmm, what could the big secret mystery be, could it be SATAN, either that or inter organazational fratracide, free bombs and bullets for the house with every 12th shot of whiskey or tequilla, depending, drink up boys, woopie, were all gonna die, a powerful non-tangable drug, the mind, on paranoia
Holder is a corrupt incompetent, puppet of the shadow government. He's gotta go.
Little attention has been called to the fact the the actual purpose of "Fast & Furious" is to aid the Obama administration's gun control efforts.
The fact is that U.S. gun dealer s are not the source of choice for long arms for the cartels – they want weapons capable of fully automatic fire which are not available from U.S. dealers. Rather the cartels obtain weapons stolen from military arsenals – Mexican and Columbian primarily. As a result few weapons seized by the Mexican government trace back to U.S. dealers. Reportedly less than 10% although the Obama administration at one point claimed that the figure was 90%.
There's only one tiny, tiny problem with your theory, Charles: the USG is for the corporations and by the corporations, gun manufacturers included. If the 2nd Amendment is altogether abolished, who would that hurt, the redneck idiots that buy their guns and ammo at Wal Mart to kill each other with or the gun manufacturers? Ever think what is the reason why the USG has managed to curtail, violate, infringe, void and abolish just about every item in the Constitution but not the 2nd Amendment? Seriously.
Hilarious. Do you earn your living in comedy?
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It has been suggested that the real reason for F&F, which was meant to stay under the radar, was to ramp up the figures to enable blame of U.S. dealers for Mexican drug violence and thereby lend support to the claim of need for more gun control – specifically the restoration of the phonely named "assault weapons" ban. This explanation is, on its face, more plausible than anything the administration has offered.
"Editorial: Was fast and furious a gun-control plot?" – Investor's business daily
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/…
Uh, huh. In case there were any doubts as to why or who is behind the "East meets West" Iranian terrorists team up with Mexican drug cartels latest entertainment piece from the USG.