Friday, March 4, 2011

Why Did The ATF Permit Weapons To Flow To Drug Gangs In Mexico?



Agent: I Was Ordered To Let U.S. Guns Into Mexico -- CBS News

ATF agent says "Fast and Furious" program let guns "walk" into hands of Mexican drug cartels with aim of tracking and breaking a big case.


WASHINGTON - Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do was beyond belief.

He was intentionally letting guns go to Mexico?

"Yes ma'am," Dodson told CBS News. "The agency was."

An Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, Dodson's job is to stop gun trafficking across the border. Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch it happen.

Investigators call the tactic letting guns "walk." In this case, walking into the hands of criminals who would use them in Mexico and the United States.

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More News On Guns From The U.S. Being Permitted To Go To Mexico's Drug Cartels

U.S. gun-tracing operation let firearms into criminal hands
-- L.A. Times
CBS report: ATF was ordered to let guns get into Mexico -- Pajamas Media
ATF encouraging gun smugglers, with deadly consequences, CBS reports -- Washington Examiner
ATF Orders Immediate Review of Gun-Running Operation -- Voice of Tuscon
ATF to Review Firearms Trafficking Strategy -- PR Newswire
Grassley: ‘Congress needs to get to the bottom of this’ -- Examiner
Justice IG to look into anti-gun efforts on border -- AP
Guns move south, as drugs move north -- Globe And Mail editorial
Project Gunrunner, an ATF operation run amok -- Tod Robberso, Dallas News
Editorial: Federal gun-smuggling surveillance program backfires -- Dallas News editorial

My Comment: This ATF operation makes no sense .... no sense at all.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

it would make perfect sense if you were getting paid by this
"legit operation", follow the drugs and you will find drug users and drug traffickers, follow the money and you wont know who you will find!

War News Updates Editor said...

I am sure their intent was to find out who eventually was buying these guns .... unfortunately .... people were getting killed while this was happening.

The ATF agent is right to speak up .... the intelligence that they were getting was resulting in the killing of numerous individuals. In short, the ATF was becoming the enablers for the Mexican drug cartels.