Senate votes to end 'Fast and Furious' gun program

Mercury News ^ | 10-18-11 | by Andrew Taylor

[library user]

WASHINGTON—The Senate has voted to effectively block the Justice Department from undertaking gun-smuggling probes like the flawed "Operation Fast and Furious" program that was aimed at breaking up networks running guns to Mexican drug cartels but which lost track of hundreds of the weapons. Some of the weapons were used to commit crimes in Mexico and the U.S.

Tuesday's vote would block the government from transferring guns to drug cartels unless federal agents "continuously monitor or control" the weapons.

[library user]

Too little, too late, Mr. Holder.

[ken21]

fast action by the senate.

/s

[ronnie raygun]

Hurry throw it in the closet with all the other sh## we’re trying to hide

[tutstar]

I’ll have I read the ariticle. I thought it had ended.

[TribalPrincess2U]

All I see is...

The Senate has voted to effectively block the Justice Department from undertaking gun-smuggling probes like the flawed “Operation Fast and Furious” program.

Is this probe blocked? Is that not bad.?

[gaijin]

I’m pretty sure they should pass some laws preventing head shots on Dealy Plaza, you know? Or else somebody important could get shot..!

[Cheerio]

Senate has voted to effectively block the Justice Department from undertaking gun-smuggling probes

Am I reading this right? The Senate has stopped the DOJ from conducting a probe of Fast and Furious?

[Carry_Okie]

Why? It was illegal in the first place!

[Mr. K]

"...unless federal agents "continuously monitor or control" the weapons

Ummm... you mean like last time?

[gaijin]

No —they’re specifically prohibiting the idiotic tactics that F&F included.

That’s nice, but it suggests some law-makers are almost as stupid as those journalists assuming that F&F was BOTCHED —in fact it worked as it was INTENDED.

[MaxMax]

Probing Holder or Probing the smuggling and the border?
this is about as vague as "is" is. Makes me wonder
if Reid knows Pelosi isn't in charge over there walking
around with a vibrating gavel anymore.

[Erik Latranyi]

A condemnation of the program would have been better.

[hattend]

Senate...barn...door...horse

[brityank]

More good news on the F&F front!

[drierice]

Right... so I suppose Holder may now say Fast & Furious occurred before the Senate had voted to end such practices.

[GeronL]

government shouldn’t be giving gun to criminals in the first place.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

“flawed”

Yeah I’ve seen that MANY times now.

It was NOT flawed. It did EXACTLY what it was meant to do.

[arthurus]

There is no progress here until the organizations that engage in such practices are ended. However, firing all those agents would be dangerous for society and they should be, instead, imprisoned until they are past age 80 or exiled.

[arthurus]

And in this case the barn door is is a screen door with the mesh missing.

[drpix]

"...program ...which lost track of hundreds of the weapons."

What program are they talking about?

FnF did NOT lose track of any weapons!

By design and execution, FnF turned weapons loose with no provision of tracking them beyond the Mexican border.

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