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As new details of the U.S. undercover operation emerged last week in congressional hearings in Washington, many Mexicans said the scandal demonstrates how easily crime gangs obtain large quantities of assault weapons from U.S. gun shops near the border. Fast and Furious — the code name given by the Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to its gun-smuggling investigation — allowed an estimated 2,000 weapons to enter Mexico unobstructed. That, however, accounts for only one-tenth of the weapons found at Mexican crime scenes in recent years that originated in the United States, according to available statistics.
The bureau's acting director, Kenneth Melson, wrote in a recent letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that of the 29,284 weapons recovered in Mexico in 2009 and 2010 and submitted for tracing, 20,504, or 70 percent, came from the United States. "All of the available evidence shows that the weapons come from the U.S.," said Sergio Aguayo, an academic and newspaper columnist. Mexicans have been closely following revelations about Fast and Furious. A congressional report made public last week said that on at least 48 occasions, Mexican investigators found Fast and Furious weapons at crime scenes. At hearings last week, it was revealed that one U.S. buyer obtained more than 700 weapons for the Sinaloa Cartel, believed to be Mexico's most powerful crime group.
The revelations have evinced an I-told- you-so attitude here about the role U.S.- based weapons play in Mexico's drug violence and reinforced long-held Mexican beliefs that the gun trade retains a powerful sway over U.S. political life. Mexican commentators see the Fast and Furious political brouhaha — with no similar discussion of how to stop the flow of powerful weapons to the cartels — as a sign of that. "It kind of reinforces the perception that U.S. policy in general is to support arms dealers around the world," said Ana Maria Salazar, a former Pentagon official who now is a security consultant in the Mexican capital.
For Mexicans, Fast and Furious gun sting conflict confirms U.S. role in Mexico's violence - The Denver Post
Federal authorities said they have made 100 arrests in a crackdown on marijuana cultivation in Mendocino National Forest. At a press conference Friday, Melinda Haag, U.S. attorney for the northern district of California, said the forest is "under attack" by armed drug traffickers.
"People don't go hiking in the summer" for fear of coming across the marijuana cultivators, she said. "I tell people be careful when they go hiking. This is an intolerable situation and it has to be stopped."
According to the U.S. attorney's office, officials spent the last few weeks removing 459,000 pot plants as well as 23 tons of trash and 22 miles of irrigation line. Officials described Operation Full Court Press as one of the largest marijuana removal efforts in U.S. history.
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IMHO selling assault weapons to drug cartels that actually are used by criminals to kill US and Mexican law enforcement agents is a criminal act. I want those responsible prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Lets poll to see who thinks that "Fast & Furious" was a criminal act, period.
I do find it amazing that this administration has gotten away with supplying terrorists with weapons.
If it was Booosh he would of been impeached already.
IMHO selling assault weapons to drug cartels that actually are used by criminals to kill US and Mexican law enforcement agents is a criminal act. I want those responsible prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Lets poll to see who thinks that "Fast & Furious" was a criminal act, period.
this covers
Conspiracy to violate federal firearm laws
Accessory to murder
Treason. Now until we have some of those clowns facing life in prison it will be awhile before the canaries sing. But they will. The attempt to undermine the second is blatantly obvious.
