Posted on 02/23/2011 5:59:09 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed
Program aimed at stopping the flow of weapons from the US to Mexico may have allegedly had the opposite effect
Keeping American weapons from getting into the hands of Mexican gangs is the goal of a program called "Project Gunrunner." But critics say it's doing exactly the opposite. CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports on what she found.
December 14, 2010. The place: a dangerous smuggling route in Arizona not far from the border. A special tactical border squad was on patrol when gunfire broke out and agent Brian Terry was killed.
Kent, Brian's brother, said "he was my only brother. That was the only brother I had. I'm lost."
The assault rifles found at the murder were traced back to a U.S. gun shop. Where they came from and how they got there is a scandal so large, some insiders say it surpasses the shoot-out at Ruby Ridge and the deadly siege at Waco.
To understand why, it helps to know something about "Project Gunrunner" an operation run by the ATF the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
I recall reading about this several years ago. It’s nice to have it confirmed by WikiLeaks.
Fixed it.
Sipseystreetirregulars has indeed well covered this scandal since the beginning.
The goobermit has a political anti-gun agenda driving the ATF sponsored illicit Gunwalker purchase and export to Mexico of legally available weapons right here in the Bayou City. I am a customer in those gun stores and it is easy as pie to see the perps, both the feds, and the stooges for the illegals. The legitimate gun stores have been asked to cooperate with the Feds, so of course they do! It is a deadly scandal. It is the US goobermit putting US-bought weapons directly in the hands of the Zetas and Gulf Cartels, to expand the civil war raging only a couple hundred miles away, with occasional flare-ups right here in town. Sometimes those guns make it to Mexico and sometimes they don’t. It does not really matter. Mexico has plenty of guns from other sources for the cartels. What is bad is the ATF policy of encouraging illegal drug trafficking is putting weapons in the hands of illegals and cartel thugs present right here in the USA.
Every citizen in public here, at the gas station, at the grocery store, wherever, must be aware and ready for armed conflict at any time. The US government is feeding the civil war in Mexico and bringing it over the border to us too.
“You’re kidding, right?
You’ve just read the first and last in the MSM.
It has been duly reported.
If you bring it up again, it’s old news, an isolated incident and they’ve never heard of it.”
Read here, FRiend...
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