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This operation had nothing to do with tracking weapons: ATF whistleblowers have repeatedly confirmed to Rep. Issa and Sen. Grassley, as well as Mexican journalists, that they were specifically forbidden to track or interdict the "walked" guns amd were told instead to wait until the weapons "surfaced at a crime scene" ie until people were murdered. Mexican authorities were kept oit of the loop. Concerns from FFLS were brushed aside. Emails submitted to Rep. Issa (late, redacted, and only under threat of arrest for Contempt Of Congress) show ATF supervisors "giddy" at the thought of these guns being used in violent crimes.
This operation existed for one purpose only: to deliberately increase the number of traceable US-origin weapons used in Mexican crimes, in order to rehabilitate the totally-discredited lie, peddled by the Obama Administration in defiance of all facts, that huge majorities of Mexican "crime guns" originated in the US. It was nothing but a macabre effort to pad dishonest figures which even the Wikileaks diplomatic cables showed to be bald-faced lies, and then use these lies to ram through the anti-gun measures which Mr. Obama has never been shy about desiring.
The only "pigfuck" here as far as ATF and the Holder DoJ are concerned is that they got caught, and that Dave Codrea et al made too much noise to be ignored.
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"I personally think that America's interests would be well served if after or at the time these clowns begin their revolting little hate crime the local police come in and cart them off on some trumped up charges or other. It is necessary in my opinion that America makes an example of them to the world."
--Strange Famous, advocating the use of falsified charges in order to shut people up.
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