U.S. bid to stem flow of weapons to Mexico cartels misfires

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Source: MSNBC

WASHINGTON — A major Justice Department program aimed at intercepting the flow of U.S. weapons to Mexico’s drug cartels is misfiring due to bureaucratic turf battles and a failure to share critical intelligence about illegal firearms purchases, according to an internal department report.

The draft report by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General, obtained by NBC News, is a scathing indictment of Project Gunrunner, a law enforcement initiative run by the department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

ATF and ICE “do not work effectively” together, “rarely conduct joint investigations” or even notify each other about what cases they are working on — despite a high level Justice directive last year that they do so, the report states. The result is that intelligence about gun trafficking activities that could potentially lead to arrests and smuggling prosecutions at the borders never gets passed along, it said.

The report comes amid mounting evidence that the illegal trafficking of U.S. weapons across the southwest border is growing at an alarming rate, contributing to an escalation in drug-related violence that is estimated to have killed 30,000 people in Mexico in the past four years.


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39282887/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

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Those Bush/Cheney sleeper cells in DHS are finally paying off!!

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1. Fiefdoms

petty bureaucrats fighting to keep their share of the budget and make grade.

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2. We gotta move the hardware,