Congress and the Department of Justice appear to be headed for a showdown this week over documents detailing Operation Fast and Furious, the botched gunrunning sting set up by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that funneled more than 1,700 smuggled weapons from Arizona to Mexico.
The Justice Department has until Wednesday to deliver to congressional investigators a stack of records and emails naming the individuals responsible for the gun trafficking operation that may have killed dozens, if not hundreds of Mexicans, and is becoming a growing embarrassment for the Obama administration.
Under Project Gunrunner and the Phoenix off-shoot, dubbed Fast and Furious, the ATF encouraged gun store owners to sell to straw buyers -- consumers who they suspected of working on behalf of Mexican drug cartels.
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BATF Botched Mexican Gun Smuggling Operation
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Re: BATF Botched Mexican Gun Smuggling Operation
Somebody done messed up
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hang it, FIRE!!!!
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hang it, FIRE!!!!
"I feel sorry for anyone who is not an alcoholic---How would you like to wake up every moring & know that is the best you will feel all day?" W.C. Fields
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Re: BATF Botched Mexican Gun Smuggling Operation
The denials are rolling out of people's mouths to include the POTUS. They protest too much?
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Re: BATF Botched Mexican Gun Smuggling Operation
I find it utterably unbelievable that a government organization would fuck up anything. Obviously all of you are racists and do not believe in the power and glory of the government.
Haters.
Haters.
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Re: BATF Botched Mexican Gun Smuggling Operation
You Sir, obviously signed your loyalty oath this morning.rgrokelley wrote:I find it utterably unbelievable that a government organization would fuck up anything. Obviously all of you are racists and do not believe in the power and glory of the government.
Haters.
Ranger School Class 08-02
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I have submitted your name to Homeland security...CatFish Driver wrote:You Sir, obviously signed your loyalty oath this morning.rgrokelley wrote:I find it utterably unbelievable that a government organization would fuck up anything. Obviously all of you are racists and do not believe in the power and glory of the government.
Haters.
Catfish... is that with one t or two?
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2/325, 82nd Airborne 1979-1984
F Company, 51st LRSU 1986-1988
5th Special Forces Group 1989-1995
3rd Special Forces Group 1997-1999
RS - DHG 5-85
2/325, 82nd Airborne 1979-1984
F Company, 51st LRSU 1986-1988
5th Special Forces Group 1989-1995
3rd Special Forces Group 1997-1999
RS - DHG 5-85
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Re: BATF Botched Mexican Gun Smuggling Operation
Hahahahahargrokelley wrote:I have submitted your name to Homeland security...CatFish Driver wrote:You Sir, obviously signed your loyalty oath this morning.rgrokelley wrote:I find it utterably unbelievable that a government organization would fuck up anything. Obviously all of you are racists and do not believe in the power and glory of the government.
Haters.
Catfish... is that with one t or two?
Ranger School Class 08-02
"Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
--Senator Barry Goldwater
"Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
--Senator Barry Goldwater