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| Operation "Fast and Furious": Justice Dept Orders ATF to Allow US Gun Sales to Drug Cartels |
| 2011-03-04 |
| The decision — part of a Phoenix-based operation code named “Fast and Furious” — was met by strong objections from some front-line agents who feared they were allowing weapons like AK-47s to “walk” into the hands of drug lords and gun runners, internal agency memos show. Indeed, scores of the weapons came back quickly traced to criminal activity. One of those front-line agents who objected, John Dodson, 39, told the Center for Public Integrity that these guns “are going to be turning up in crimes on both sides of the border for decades.” Dodson said in an interview that “with the number of guns we let walk, we’ll never know how many people were killed, raped, robbed … there is nothing we can do to round up those guns. They are gone.” Dodson has taken his misgivings to the Senate Judiciary Committee as a whistleblower after his concerns were dismissed by his supervisors and initially ignored by the Justice Department’s inspector general. Sen. Charles Grassley, the panel’s top Republican — who is spearheading a probe of ATF’s actions – said “it’s time to step back” and examine the policy. Two of the guns involved in the sting operation turned up at the scene of a fatal shooting of a U.S. agent. In only 24 months Obama and Holder have destroyed so much. We cannot wait another 24 months for them to destroy many more lives. Pass Impeachment Resolutions each and every week in the House until the Senate does an Impeachment. The above committee is a Senate committee. That should be the start of the process. |
| Posted by:Phaiper Slineling5046 |