Letting Guns walk

			A section of the draft of contempt charges against Attorney General Eric Holder is dedicated to explaining how Fast & Furious branches off into different departments within the Department of Justice (DOJ). While most know about the operation being based in Phoenix, the strategy was actually developed in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General (ODAG) in Washington, DC. The ODAG decided it would be brilliant to concentrate on identifying the members of the trafficking network instead of seizing the firearms right away. The goal was to capture the big fish of the cartels. The ATF Phoenix Field Office decided to use this strategy in Fast & Furious. But that wasn’t good enough for them and in late January 2010 the office “applied for Fast and Furious to become an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) case.” In order to do that the agents had to tell all about their investigative strategy, i.e. gunwalking. It was approved and was given new funding. ...
Big-Government

Who knew what, and when? How did this ever sound like a good idea? Are the people running this country neurotic?

			CBS News has obtained a series of emails that show the White House had more information on ATF's controversial Fast and Furious operation than previously disclosed. But administration officials insists nobody at the White House knew specifically that ATF was allowing guns to "walk" into the hands of suspected gun traffickers for Mexican drug cartels. ATF allegedly allowed more than two thousand assault rifles and other weapons to fall into the hands of suspects from late fall of 2009 through 2010. The emails indicate three White House officials were briefed on gun trafficking efforts that included Fast and Furious. The officials are Kevin O'Reilly, then-director of North American Affairs, now assigned to the State Department; Dan Restrepo, senior Latin American advisory; and Greg Gatjanis, a national security official.
CBS News

Let me get this straight. The U. S. government encourage straw purchasers, read gun runners, to buy guns in the U. S. and get them to Mexico. The gun store owners didn't want to sell to these people, but the feds insisted. Then what? Count the bodies? What in the world were they thinking?

I'll tell you what they were thinking. They were thinking this would make gun purchases in the U. S. look bad and give them, excuse the play on words, ammunition to take the right to own firearms away from U. S. citizens. That is the only thing that makes sense. In order to make the citzinery depend solely on the government, they cannot have the tools to be independant. What part of independant is more important than self preservation?