Posted on 02/23/2011 5:59:09 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed
Program aimed at stopping the flow of weapons from the US to Mexico may have allegedly had the opposite effect
Keeping American weapons from getting into the hands of Mexican gangs is the goal of a program called "Project Gunrunner." But critics say it's doing exactly the opposite. CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports on what she found.
December 14, 2010. The place: a dangerous smuggling route in Arizona not far from the border. A special tactical border squad was on patrol when gunfire broke out and agent Brian Terry was killed.
Kent, Brian's brother, said "he was my only brother. That was the only brother I had. I'm lost."
The assault rifles found at the murder were traced back to a U.S. gun shop. Where they came from and how they got there is a scandal so large, some insiders say it surpasses the shoot-out at Ruby Ridge and the deadly siege at Waco.
To understand why, it helps to know something about "Project Gunrunner" an operation run by the ATF the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
That's a double-ultra-secret-CYA!
Is CBS involved in this?
“Project Gunrunner”, I thought it was “Gunwalker”.
Have I missed something.
Surprised they did not wait till 5pm on Friday.
I guess with Libya and the Wisconsin thing in the news its just as good a time.
Answering my own question:
From the “American Thinker”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/death_in_the_desert_project_gu.html
Two Second Amendment advocates, Mike Vanderboegh of the blog Sipsey Street Irregulars and David Codrea, a writer at Gun Rights Examiner.com, became immediately aware of the posts, and their interest pushed them to collaborate and use their own sources within the ATF to confirm the allegations being made.
The pair independently corroborated the existence of a deviation from Project Gunrunner which they began to sardonically refer to as Project Gunwalker. Sources told them of the unstated policy to provide assault weapons to straw buyers, who would walk the guns over the border and sell them to members of the Mexican drug cartels for the purpose of manufacturing evidence.
Did you see this!?
Gunwalker bump!
Mr. Holder, could you explain that sentence...???
“It’s obvious that we’re incompetent Keystone Kops, but we’re just going to deny, deny, deny.”
Going to be interesting to see where this goes!
A common sense vigilante group would have put this to sleep 5 years ago.
Saw it on the news. Everyone down here has known for the last couple of years that it was the ATF that was providing those “traceable to the US” weapons. A good percentage of the Border Patrol and almost all of the ATF are corrupt. Follow the money ... straight to the bureaucrats!
Still, this narrative documents ~500 semiautomatic weapons (NOT assault weapons) allegedly going from U.S. to Mexico. A virtual drop in the bucket of firepower amassed by the cartels including REAL assault weapons, purchased and/or stolen from markets outside the U.S.
It is not difficult to understand why BATF was doing this, and that it wasn't at all about curbing the drug cartels' access to firearms.
Were you able to get the video to work? I wasn’t.
When I tried to connect to the site my browser refused the connection. When I ran a diagnostic I found that the CBS News site is being ping flooded in a Denial of Service attack...possibly to prevent people from seeing this very article.
OMG, this is aweful. Could you imagine if this tactic was used on other weapons like WMD’s?
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