Posted April 8, 2016 7:58 pm by Comments

By Robert Farago

U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry (courtesy bizpacreview.com)

“The U.S. Department of Justice released thousands of subpoenaed documents about the controversial ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ gun trafficking investigation to a congressional committee on Friday,” Reuters reports. “The operation was a failed effort between 2009 and 2011 to stop gun smuggling across the United States’ southwestern border by the department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and federal prosecutors in Arizona.” So much for reporting. The exact purpose of the the ATF’s F&F remains unknown. The “gun smuggling to stop gun smuggling” justification was revealed as nothing more than a cover story the moment ATF Agent Dobson testified that he’d been ordered to stop following a known gun smuggler smuggling guns. To let the guns walk (hence the scandal’s “Gunwalker” nickname). The question is . . .

Will the documents reveal Fast & Furious’ raison d’être, long rumored to be a government plot to “plant” guns at Mexican crime scenes to motivate Congress to pass a U.S. assault weapons ban? Or supply the then-friendly Sinaloa Cartel with firearms. Or both.

Equally, will the new intel expose the ATF, DOJ, DHS, ICE and (maybe the CIA and DEA) coverup when the black bag job was exposed, following the …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns

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