Posted on 01/12/2012 9:40:58 PM PST by Nachum
“White Gun”...
Sounds racist to me...
Good point...Nothing in the ATF’s public effort in this debacle is proving one need for any additional scrutiny on private businesses or persoanl transfers of firearms, when the cartels are going for big bang bang items from “other than legal” sources...
But hey, if I could score access to AA and AT weaponry...Sure...Not sure why I’d need it, but if its good enough for the military and the cartels...
It’s got to be good enough for us...
Exactly! Patino was a top Sinaloa Cartel member and we all know by now that there was an agreement to fight the OTHER cartels allegedly because the FBI had a CI in Sinaloa and so Sinaloa was protected. I hope I'm not alone in thinking there is another reason Sinaloa Cartel was protected.
Of course, "our" people scored some good PR by arresting and convicting three underlings while investigations of the big boys "abruptly ended".
None of the three was included on the list of nine cartel leaders who were targeted in the operation. The U.S. attorney in Phoenix at the time, Dennis K. Burke, who later resigned over Fast and Furious, called the White Gun convictions "a tremendous team effort that put a stop to a well-financed criminal conspiracy to acquire massive destructive firepower."
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