[Free Vulcan]

“ALSO..ATF agents bribed a gun dealer into helping shady characters in making ‘straw purchases’ to ‘prove’ U.S. gun stores are breaking the law! If the allegations prove to be true, the American people are being lied to by the highest levels of this Administration.”

This is the smoking gun if it can be proven, pun intended.

[USNBandit]

The CBS story made it sound like they were using a paid confidential informant to sell the guns. That is pretty standard for a controlled delivery operation. Where they went wrong was that the managers at ATF ordered that the gun traffickers be allowed to successfully smuggle their guns out of the U.S.

The concept of a controlled delivery is pretty dangerous when you are talking guns. The idea of purposely letting the item go beyond your control is insane.

The fact that CBS has already gone with the story means that the White House has lost control of the story.

The transition of the story is going to provide an interesting corruption angle to what was an incompetent operation. First they arrested one of the smugglers a couple days after the shooting. Then the first press release made it sound like ATF had uncovered a trafficking ring that included criminal activity by the gun dealers. Next, a whole lot of silence followed by a pull back from a suggested change in gun laws on the border states. Then, kaboom.