Is Obama A Gunrunner?

Is Obama A Gunrunner?
IBD Editorials ^ | May 6, 2011 | Staff

Posted on Friday, May 06, 2011 9:04:53 PM by Kaslin

Gun Control: Under a program run by the Justice Department, weapons were knowingly sold to criminals suspected of links to Mexican drug cartels, with two guns ending up at the murder scene of a border patrol agent.


Considering how this administration has made a cause celebre out of gun control, the revelation of a program run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), in which weapons were transferred on purpose to Mexican drug cartels and criminals and then lost track of, is at best embarrassing and at worst an unconscionable dereliction of duty.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder, among others, have blamed the rising violence in Mexico by the drug cartels on the transfer of weapons from the U.S. by unscrupulous gun dealers and their "straw buyers" — purchasers who may have legitimate credentials and purchase guns for those who can't legally obtain them.
Yet it seems we set up an operation that wound up doing exactly that.

While it has been demonstrated by us and others that most of the drug cartel weaponry comes from either foreign or Mexican military sources, ATF set up "Operation Gunrunner" ostensibly to trap American sources and their "straw buyers" in an elaborate sting. As documents unearthed have shown, this "sting" has gone terribly awry.

The program first came to light when ATF agent John Dodson told Fox News in March that the tactic of letting guns "walk" across the Mexican border was approved by his supervisors in the Phoenix ATF office over the objections of several agents who saw the program as ill-conceived and dangerous.

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