OBAMA ADMINISTRATION Sends Guns To Mexico

New York Post
September 28, 2011

By Michael A. Walsh

This just might be the smoking gun we’ve been waiting for to break
the festering “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal wide open:
the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
apparently ordered one of its own agents to purchase firearms
with taxpayer money, and sell them directly to a Mexican drug cartel.

Let that sink in:
After months of pretending that “Fast and Furious” was a botched
surveillance operation of illegal gun-running spearheaded by the
ATF and the US attorney’s office in Phoenix, it turns out that the
government itself was selling guns to the bad guys.

Agent John Dodson was ordered to buy four Draco pistols for cash
and even got a letter from his supervisor, David Voth, authorizing a
federally licensed gun dealer to sell him the guns without bothering
about the necessary paperwork.

“Please accept this letter in lieu of completing an ATF Form 4473
for the purchase of four (4) CAI, Model Draco, 7.62x39 mm pistols,
by Special Agent John Dodson,” read the June 1, 2010, letter.
“These aforementioned pistols will be used by Special Agent Dodson
in furtherance of performance of his official duties.”

On orders, Dodson then sold the guns to known criminals, who first
stashed them away and then -- deliberately unhindered by the ATF
or any other agency -- whisked them off to Mexico.

People were killed with Fast and Furious weapons, including at least
two American agents and hundreds of Mexicans and the taxpayers
picked up the bill.


So where’s the outrage?
There’s none from the feds. Attorney General Eric Holder has
consistently stonewalled Rep. Darrell Issa, Sen. Chuck Grassley
and other congressional investigators.

In a constantly evolving set of lies, Holder has denied knowing anything
about Fast and Furious while at the same time withholding
documents from the House and Senate committees looking into
the mess while muzzling some witnesses and transferring others.

Justice calls the allegations about Dodson’s operation “false” but Grassley
says that’s “a lie,” as he told Greta van Susteren the other day.
“The ATF ordered this ATF agent to purchase these guns and in turn sell
them, and supposedly track them,” he said “but he was a lone wolf in
the operation -- they wouldn’t give him any help for 24-hour surveillance.”

So now the wheels have come off the official explanation for Fast
and Furious. Of course, that explanation never made much sense
in the first place.

For one thing, the ATF had no authority to track the guns once they
were in Mexico; for another, nobody bothered to inform the Mexicans
of this intrusion on their national sovereignty.

Further, we now know that a host of federal agencies (including the ATF,
the FBI and IRS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug
Enforcement Administration and, very probably, top officials at the
Department of Homeland Security) were all in the loop at various levels,
as was the White House.

So calling “Fast and Furious” a cockamamie operation gone wrong
just isn’t going to cut it anymore.

There are two possible explanations. The first is that the anti-gun
Obama administration deliberately wanted American guns planted
in Mexico in order to demonize American firearms dealers and gun owners.
The operation was manufacturing “evidence” for the president’s
false claim that we’re to blame for the appalling levels of Mexican
drug-war violence.

If this is true, then Holder & Co. have got to go -- and the trail
needs to be followed no matter where it leads. For the federal
government to seek to frame its own citizens is unconscionable.
A second notion is that the CIA was behind the whole thing, which
accounts for all the desperate wagon-circling. Under this theory,
the Agency feared the los Zetas drug cartel was becoming too
powerful and might even mount a coup against the Mexican
government. So some 2,000 weapons costing more than $1,250,000
were deliberately channeled to the rival Sinaloa cartel, which operates
along the American border, to keep the Zetas in check.

Of course, there’s a third explanation -- that both scenarios are true,
and that those in charge of Fast and Furious saw an opportunity to
shoot two birds with one Romanian-made AK Draco pistol.

Time for a special prosecutor, who’s both fast and furious.