The biggest Obama Administration scandal that the media doesn't want to touch so far.
Project Gunrunner - walking guns to Mexico through Border States in such a way that their use as evidence was questionable and with no real prospects of accomplishing any real criminal investigations.
Operation Fast and Furious – a subpart of Project Gunrunner, again walking thousands of guns to Mexico through Border States in such a way that their use as evidence was questionable and with no real prospects of accomplishing any real criminal investigations.
Operation Castaway – allowing guns to be illegally transferred to Mexican criminals from Miami via shipment through Honduras. So much for claims that this was an operation solely based out of the ATFE’s Phoenix office.
For a good well-written description on project Gunwalker, and see Larry Correia’s write up and linkage to a good timeline of the investigation so far. Say Uncle also has good details.
Now further information may come to the fore, as the family of murdered U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was most likely shot with weapons that were “walked” by ATFE (and funded with stimulus funds and possible involvement by DEA and DHS) which were recovered at the scene might be suing the US Government under the Federal Tort Claims Act for its malfeasance.
The Operations seem to have no real criminal investigative purpose and certainly no real potential for success to match against thousands of gun illegally shipped to Mexico with the government’s acquiescence.
It seems that this was part of Obama’s plan to push for gun control “under the radar” by creating a crisis and claiming that crime in Mexico is caused by American guns sold in gun shops, which is untrue...but for those thousands shipped there with ATFE’s blessing and connivance.
The scandal doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of coverage in the MSM.
Given that an American Border Patrol agent and possibly hundreds of Mexicans also have been killed due to this colossally messed up operation that seems to have been ginned up for domestic political considerations, the lack of such focus is indeed curious.
Of course, given the scandal deals with Democrats, malfeasance and a ham-handed attempt at backdoor gun control by the Obama Administration, it isn't too surprising.
After all, the MSM loves Obama and gun control both, and it is rather hard for them to get through their ideological blinders on this one.
This scandal isn’t over yet, nor have all the details on it come to light, including the important question of how high up the Obama administration this goes. Nor have those Howard Baker-esque questions been seriously asked yet:
What did President Obama know, and when did he know it?
