Officials in ‘Panic Mode’ Over Failed Government Anti-Gun Trafficking Program

[friendly_iconoclast]

Since Rupert Murdoch-owned media are now 'approved' sources:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=426176&mesg_id=426176

I thought I would post this:

http://www.disinfo.com/2011/06/officials-in-panic-mode-over-failed-government-anti-gun-trafficking-program/



Officials in ‘Panic Mode’ Over Failed Government Anti-Gun Trafficking Program

Posted by BananaFamine on June 12, 2011

“The hearing is billed as ‘Reckless Decisions, Tragic Outcomes’”. William La Jeunesse writes on Fox News:

Officials at the Department of Justice are in “panic mode,” according to multiple sources, as word spreads that congressional testimony next week will paint a bleak and humiliating picture of Operation Fast and Furious, the botched undercover operation that left a trail of blood from Mexico to Washington, D.C.

The operation was supposed to stem the flow of weapons from the U.S. to Mexico by allowing so-called straw buyers to purchase guns legally in the U.S. and later sell them in Mexico, usually to drug cartels.

Instead, ATF documents show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms knowingly and deliberately flooded Mexico with assault rifles. Their intent was to expose the entire smuggling organization, from top to bottom, but the operation spun out of control and supervisors refused pleas from field agents to stop it.....

[lawodevolution]

1. They new the 90% number was wrong so they were ordered to make it right and create a

problem that could be used to pass anti gun legislation.

[Atypical Liberal]

9. This is my suspicion as well.

[Hoopla Phil]

2. Would this be considered a "wag the dog" moment/issue?

[gejohnston]

3. or "under the radar" but out of couriosity

what was your old username?

edit because spell check is FUBAR

[ileus]

4. Interesting how far some will go to further their agenda.

[Katya Mullethov]

5. If ya wanna make an omelette

You gotta break a few eggs .

[jpak]

6. Pure Murdoch RW-propa-crapahola -> disnifo.com indeed

RW/GOP/NRA/FOX fail

yup

[X_Digger]

7. Says the guy who posted another Murdoch story as fact? LOL!!

Oh the hypocrisy.

[friendly_iconoclast]

8. Ahem. Murdoch was an acceptable source for YOU:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=426176&mesg_id=426176

Murdoch for thee, but not for me. Got hypocrisy?

Yup!

[beevul]

10. Awww. You poor thing.

House Democrats urge White House to come clean on Gunwalker

Friday, June 03, 2011

Today, 31 U.S. House members -- all Democrats -- wrote to President Barack Obama, urging him to end Administration stonewalling on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' "Project Gunrunner," and the "Fast and Furious" program under which border state dealers were encouraged to sell thousands of guns to suspicious buyers.

In the letter, spearheaded by Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., the lawmakers called the investigative tactics "extremely troubling" and found the Justice Department's failure to provide information to congressional investigators "equally troubling." Saying that Americans deserve "prompt and complete answers," the letter concluded with a call for the administration to help "get to the bottom of this serious allegation of federal law enforcement misconduct."


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x424416

Its just so much "RW/GOP/NRA/FOX fail", isn't it?

:rofl: