Fast and Furious blows wide open: US Govt sold arms directly to drug cartels. [View All]

[Atypical Liberal]

Found via reddit.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/furious_revelation_OhK6TBqPlEpRglHjsSbiBI

"This just might be the smoking gun we’ve been waiting for to break the festering “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal wide open: the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apparently ordered one of its own agents to purchase firearms with taxpayer money, and sell them directly to a Mexican drug cartel.

Let that sink in: After months of pretending that “Fast and Furious” was a botched surveillance operation of illegal gun-running spearheaded by the ATF and the US attorney’s office in Phoenix, it turns out that the government itself was selling guns to the bad guys."

This is incredibly bad news for the United States and President Obama's administration. A horrible black eye to happen under the watch of a Democratic president that could set us back for years, unless, hopefully, it can be shown that this sort of thing has been going on since prior to Obama taking office.

We are incarcerating thousands upon thousands of people for using and/or selling illegal drugs. And now it turns out, as the rumors suggested, that we have been directly arming drug cartels. It is going to be increasingly difficult to claim the need for drugs to be kept illegal when it is official US policy to support the people supplying the product.

It's still not clear what the ultimate motivation was here, but this one is starting to come apart at the seams. The fallout could be spectacular.