Another ATF weapons operation comes under scrutiny

Washington - In the late summer of 2010, the ATF agent leading the failed Fast and Furious gun-smuggling operation in Arizona flew to Mexico City to help coordinate cross-border investigations of U.S. weapons used by Mexican drug cartels. Hope A. MacAllister wanted access to police and military vaults for American weapons recovered by Mexican authorities in raids and at crime scenes. She especially was interested in firearms from another ATF investigation, code-named White Gun, that she was running. Now members of Congress who have spent months scrutinizing the Fast and Furious debacle are seeking to determine whether White Gun

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...

"the money shot... Just as Guzman Patino seemed ready to buy, according to the ATF records, the investigation into his activities abruptly ended. The documents do not explain why, and they don't indicate whether he obtained any weapons."

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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