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Why was ATF Gun Walking OK during the Bush years but bad during the Obama years?
Why was ATF Gun Walking OK during the Bush years but bad during the Obama years? - Yahoo! Answers
ATF "gun-walking" began during the Bush Administration.
Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer became the first high-ranking official Tuesday to admit that he knew U.S. agents were letting thousands of guns sold in the U.S. fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
But Breuer says the controversial gun walking tactics he learned about in April 2010 weren't part of Operation Fast and Furious, but rather a previous investigation during the Bush administration called Wide Receiver.
Wide Receiver was an operation during the Bush administration similar to Fast and Furious under the Obama administration where illegally purchased weapons entered Mexico instead of being stop by ATF. Under Wide Receiver, which ran from 2006 to the end of 2007, the ATF recruited a gun dealer to sell some 450 assault rifles to known straw buyers and then watched as many of those guns crossed the Mexican border
Why was ATF Gun Walking OK during the Bush years but bad during the Obama years? - Yahoo! Answers
ATF "gun-walking" began during the Bush Administration.
Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer became the first high-ranking official Tuesday to admit that he knew U.S. agents were letting thousands of guns sold in the U.S. fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
But Breuer says the controversial gun walking tactics he learned about in April 2010 weren't part of Operation Fast and Furious, but rather a previous investigation during the Bush administration called Wide Receiver.
Wide Receiver was an operation during the Bush administration similar to Fast and Furious under the Obama administration where illegally purchased weapons entered Mexico instead of being stop by ATF. Under Wide Receiver, which ran from 2006 to the end of 2007, the ATF recruited a gun dealer to sell some 450 assault rifles to known straw buyers and then watched as many of those guns crossed the Mexican border