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Exposed: The secret guns sting that backfired on the US

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The lethal fallout from a botched operation by
the US Department of Justice which allowed almost 2,000 illegally
purchased firearms to be transported from the streets of Arizona to drug
gangs
in Mexico has been laid bare in a scathing Congressional report,
which concludes that it resulted in countless deaths.

A mixture of arrogance, over-confidence, and staggering ineptitude by
the Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
[ATF]
was outlined in a 51-page investigation by two Republican members
of a House panel charged with getting to the bottom of what went wrong
during a two-year operation called “Fast and Furious“.

It tells how, between 2009 and this year, the ATF instructed agents to
turn a blind eye to hundreds of AK-47 assault rifles, sniper rifles, and
revolvers purchased from gunshops in Phoenix and en route to Mexico.
They hoped to eventually recover them from crime scenes and build a
complex conspiracy case that might take down the leaders of a major drug
cartel
.

In the event, the operation resulted in the arrest of a handful of
small-time crooks. But it exacerbated an already-huge spike in violence
on both sides of the border. Two of the guns allowed to “walk” into the
hands of criminals were used in a shoot-out that killed a US border
patrol agent, Brian Terry.

Topics – Fast and Furious, Gunrunner, ATF, Darryl Issa, firearms, drug gangs, Brian Terry, Mexico, border, Dept of Justice, border patrol, illegal immigration.

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