Mexican Attorney General Marisela Morales
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I know you're not the only one -- but I'm too lazy to leave the editor, go back through the thread, and address all the other folks who can't read...
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Posted on 09/27/2011 2:51:04 PM PDT by opentalk
Washington, DC, United States (AHN) –Mexico’s attorney general is demanding an explanation from the United States as evidence grows the Obama administration was more deeply involved in Operation Fast and Furious than top officials admitted in previous statements.
Operation Fast and Furious was a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives effort to track more than 2,000 smuggled guns to Mexican drug cartels by allowing gang members to purchase them illegally from U.S. gun stores then take them back to their leaders. However, the federal agency lost track of many of the guns.
Some later were traced to murders of police and civilians in Mexico. Officially, the Justice Department says the operation backfired but did not admit U.S. agents sold the guns to the Mexican smugglers.
In June, President Barack Obama said he would take “appropriate action” against organizers of the operation. He said it never was approved by top Justice Department officials.
Investigative news stories this week cast doubt on reports of no high-level government involvement. Documents obtained from Fox News show ATF agents sold some of the guns to gang members. They allegedly purchased the guns with taxpayer money.
Mexican Attorney General Marisela Morales called Operation Fast and Furious “an attack on Mexicans’ security.” She said she learned about the operation in the news media rather than being told about it in advance by U.S. government officials.
She said that if U.S. federal officials were involved, it would be a “betrayal” of Mexico while its police and military were fighting a war against drug cartels. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the war that started in December 2006.
Morales said she would await results of congressional investigations into the operation before making any conclusions over who should be blamed.
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Mexican Attorney General Marisela Morales
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And from another thread we’re seeing that grenades were also involved. I’m speechless.
what do you suppose it was all about...???
Man, talk about a kiss of death. This is as bad as putting a price on her head.
Precisely. Recall earlier this year...when Obama, Holder, Hillary and Napolitano all piped up at about the same time...all remarking about "the flood of guns into Mexico from our Southwestern states" and how "something would have to be done to stem the tide".
The allusion was that the "something" would have to be some form of gun control.
Moreover, the fact that the President and three cabinet officers all seem to have been on the same propaganda page certainly suggests that the White House and all three Departments were in on the caper.
There literally seems to have been no other purpose to the operation. Unless it was to arm an insurgent group in a neighboring sovereign state. Which, in its own way, is everey bit as troubling.
Hey Zero, Mexico is calling and they have your balls in a purse.
I’m glad Mexico is angry; they should be. As punishment, they could take all their citizens and go home.
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