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The Difference Between Bushs Wide Receiver and Obamas Fast and Furious | The Lonely Conservative
The key differences are that Operation Wide Receiver tracked the firearms that were walked into Mexico, and the operation was carried out in conjunction with Mexican authorities. With Operation Fast and Furious, on the other hand, there was no effort made to track the weapons once they walked across the border, and the US government never informed the Mexicans of the operation. At a hearing this week, Senator Jon Cornyn (R) made the distinction perfectly clear.
You see with WR. The program is the guns were tagged and the Mexican Government knew about the program .. With FnF the guns were NOT tagged and the Mexican Government DID NOT KNOW about the program..
Another difference, Wide Receiver really was an attempt at a sting operation aimed at the cartels.
Fast & Furious? Documents: ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make the case for gun regulations - CBS News Investigates - CBS News
Documents: ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make the case for gun regulations
December 7, 2011 1:44 PM
By
Sharyl Attkisson
Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation "Fast and Furious" to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales.
In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly encouraged gun dealers to sell to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels to go after the "big fish." But ATF whistleblowers told CBS News and Congress it was a dangerous practice called "gunwalking," and it put thousands of weapons on the street. Many were used in violent crimes in Mexico. Two were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
ATF officials didn't intend to publicly disclose their own role in letting Mexican cartels obtain the weapons, but emails show they discussed using the sales, including sales encouraged by ATF, to justify a new gun regulation called "Demand Letter 3". That would require some U.S. gun shops to report the sale of multiple rifles or "long guns." Demand Letter 3 was so named because it would be the third ATF program demanding gun dealers report tracing information.
On July 14, 2010 after ATF headquarters in Washington D.C. received an update on Fast and Furious, ATF Field Ops Assistant Director Mark Chait emailed Bill Newell, ATF's Phoenix Special Agent in Charge of Fast and Furious:
"Bill - can you see if these guns were all purchased from the same (licensed gun dealer) and at one time. We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun multiple sales. Thanks."
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Those claiming that the accusation that this debacle was an attempt towards further gun control is some sort of 'folly', are either ignorant of what has already been discovered or truly amoral.
They do that to fire up the 2nd Amendment people....