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Posted on 04/18/2012 2:17:24 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus act allocated $10 million to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for a program that traced guns sold to straw purchasers, an operation that was designed to prevent Mexican criminal organizations from obtaining U.S. guns.
The $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the stimulus, was passed by Congress and signed into law in February 2009. From this near-trillion dollar trove, the administration allocated $10 million to the ATF’s “Project Gunrunner” to increase staff by 37 persons, according to a November 2010 Department of Justice Inspector General report.
The phased-in hiring of stimulus-funded staff was almost complete by September 2010, according to the IG report.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
What is there even left to say? Ping.
I thought no one knew this program was going on...just a few ‘rogue’ agents...
Yeah right...
Issa is on the case...
Gee, all I want is a few K for a few things I have on my shopping list.
So when are people finally going to understand that the stimulus package was nothing more than an end-around Congress to illegally fund pet projects without oversight? Oh yea, not holding my breath....
Old news. nothing new here.
So there are at least $10 million worth of guns out there, then?
How many US have been killed by the illegal sale of unregistered weapons by Obama?
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
F&F...all this smoking gun evidence yet nobody’s been punished.
10 million would arm a lot of revolutionaries, where is the money, surely not in the cache they found..
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BINGO, found the smoking gun!
I can’t read it, not a member. is there a chance you can post it here or email it to me? i need to send this to a huge debate( about 20 people, ten libs, and ten conservative) and this will be prefect end game for all their danged lies.
Thankls in advance.
The link has been removed from the CNS News site. Not sure what that means.
However, if you Google “stimulus atf gunrunner” you can see the first few words, but that’s all. Perhaps the author pulled the article, or ...
Actually FR (as usual) beat everyone to the punch on this one. In fact, we did so by almost a year.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2736899/posts
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