Posted on 06/22/2012 9:55:15 AM PDT by .454Puma
Wide Receiver - The number of guns used in the operation from the beginning until the end of the operation was 300. Fast & Furious - The number of guns used in the operation from the beginning until the end of the operation was 2,000.
Wide Receiver - Guns were traced with miniature GPS devices inserted inside the guns. Fast & Furious - No tracking devices were used.
Wide Receiver - ATF agents were ordered to follow the gun smugglers from the gun store to the US/Mexico border. Fast & Furious - ATF agents were ordered to stand down and not follow the gun smugglers after they left the gun store.
Wide Receiver - Mexican army and police was in the loop about Wide Receiver. They took over the surveillance of the gun smugglers after they crossed with the guns in Mexico. Fast & Furious - Mexican authorities were kept in the dark by the ATF and the US DOJ. They had no idea about Fast & Furious and the fact that guns provided to gun smugglers by the American authorities were "walked" in Mexico into the hands of drug cartel murderers.
Wide Receiver - When a small number of guns (30-40) were lost due to the malfunctioning GPS tracking devices operation Wide Receiver was immediately aborted and cancelled. Fast and Furious - Operation continued even after ATF and DOJ lost track of all 2,000 guns sold to Mexican drug cartels.
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Wide Receiver - The operation was planned in such a way the gun smugglers and their cargo were kept under surveillance step by step, from the gun store to the US/Mexico border, across the border into Mexico and to their final destination: the hands of the drug cartel killers. This could have led to arrests made in joint operations by the Mexican authorities and DEA and ATF agents.
Fast & Furious - The operation was planned to let the guns go without any surveillance. Guns were supposed to be recovered at the murder scenes. One of the 150+ murder scenes where Fast & Furious guns were recovered was that of US border patrol agent Brian Terry. So far DOJ and ATF didn’t came with any explanation about how they were planning to make arrests of the drug cartel murderers BEFORE THEY KILLED PEOPLE with the Fast & Furious guns, and how they were supposed to do those arrest in Mexico without the Mexican authorities knowing anything about this operation.
Sorry about the triple posting, I don’t know what happened.
THANK YOU!
Great post.
Pre-debunking the “Bush’s Fault” meme.
How about arrest stats? I’d like to see the comparison between the two if available
Excellent article thank you for posting..
Rush just gave a lengthly explanation as well along these lines. He states there were 1400 arrests during Wide Receiver and that it was shut down as soon as the Cartels discovered the RDIFs and removed them hence destroying the tracking ability! You can read the entire transcript at his website and E-mail it to others including your Congresscritters!
This should make all those responsible for FAST and FURIOUS Guilty of Mass Murders and Treason!
Thanks for an Awesome and a Critically Important and Damning Post!
Rush just gave a lengthly explanation as well along these lines. He states there were 1400 arrests during Wide Receiver and that it was shut down as soon as the Cartels discovered the RDIFs and removed them hence destroying the tracking ability! You can read the entire transcript at his website and E-mail it to others including your Congresscritters!
This should make all those responsible for FAST and FURIOUS Guilty of Mass Murders and Treason!
Thanks for an Awesome and a Critically Important and Damning Post!
My Apologies for the double post!
Contrary to the Muslim Terrorist in Chief who never accepts responsibility for anything! I am totally responsible for this huge gaffe! Mia Copo...... :-(
Further Correction:
Mea Culpa!
“Fast & Furious - Mexican authorities were kept in the dark by the ATF and the US DOJ. They had no idea about Fast & Furious and the fact that guns provided to gun smugglers by the American authorities were “walked” in Mexico into the hands of drug cartel murderers.”
This violated
H.R.6028 — Merida Initiative to Combat Illicit Narcotics and Reduce Organized Crime Authorization Act of 2008
Bill Text
110th Congress (2007-2008)
H.R.6028.RH
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