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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

U.S. Government Used Taxpayer Funds to Buy, Sell Weapons During ‘Fast and Furious,’ Document

Author:     WILLIAM LAJEUNESSE
Source:     Fox News
Publication Date:     26-Sep-11
 Link: U.S. Government Used Taxpayer Funds to Buy, Sell Weapons During ‘Fast and Furious,’ Document
Stephan:   The corruption in the American government has reached banana republic dimensions. And the War on Drugs has no other purpose but providing funding for a string of government agencies and the corporations that are their contractors. It is hard to believe this sort of thing is true, but it is, and it is just one of a string of similar stories. Remember the lost nuclear material report I ran the other day? Even Fox News is offended by this weapons sales issue, and that tells you something important in itself.

Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa cartel — the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic weapons, sold them to criminals and then watched as the guns disappeared.

This disclosure, revealed in documents obtained by Fox News, could undermine the Department of Justice’s previous defense that Operation Fast and Furious was a ‘botched’ operation where agents simply ‘lost track’ of weapons as they were transferred from one illegal buyer to another. Instead, it heightens the culpability of the federal government as Mexico, according to sources, has opened two criminal investigations into the operation that flooded their country with illegal weapons.
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Documents Detail ATF Involvement in ‘Fast and Furious’

The following documents detail the role the ATF played in buying and selling weapons as part of its controversial ‘Fast and Furious’ operation.

Operation Fast and Furious began in October 2009. In it, federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives encouraged gun stores to sell weapons to an arms smuggling gang, then watched as the guns crossed the border and were used in crimes. Each month, the agency allowed hundreds of guns to […]

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