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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opi…Operation Fast and Furious, which seems about to explode right in the face of Attorney General Eric Holder -- and maybe other administration officials, too.
Also known as Project Gunrunner, the Arizona-based operation was supposed to be a sting, under which the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is part of the Justice Department, allowed "straw purchasers" to transfer weapons from gun shops in Arizona to Mexican drug cartels to trace and halt crossborder arms-trafficking.
That's the official version, anyway -- but it's crumbling, fast.
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I place this in the category of arms to Nicaraguan rebels and Ollie North. Everyone had a fit about that and labeled him a criminal.
- A good idea on paper that went wrong in practice, i guess. Though i don't buy the nypost's conspiracy theory of Obama trying to make a case for gun controllocustsloth
- trying to make a case for gun control with it.locustsloth
- Who needs gun money from the Mexican cartels when you have heroin money from Afghanistan?TheBlueOne
- Ha, I guess so...********
- Locus? what?********
- read the article, Viking, it insinuates that the admin was trying to make it look like Mex guns were coming from USAlocustsloth