Thread: More Fast And Furious Gun Crimes In Arizona And Texas

More "Fast and Furious" Gun Crimes In Arizona and Texas

The greatest scandal of the Obama era puts Americans at risk.

by John Hayward


08/17/2011

Richard Serrano of the L.A. Times reports on the expanding cloud of bullet-riddled fallout over American soil from Operation Fast and Furious:

Firearms from the ATF's Operation Fast and Furious weapons trafficking investigation turned up at the scenes of at least 11 violent crimes in the U.S., as well as at a Border Patrol agent's slaying in southern Arizona last year, the Justice Department has acknowledged to Congress.

The department did not provide details about the crimes. But The Times has learned that they occurred in several Arizona cities, including Phoenix, where Fast and Furious was managed, as well as in El Paso, where a total of 42 weapons from the operation were seized at two crime scenes.

This shocking information was disclosed in a letter from Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich to Senators Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) of the Judiciary Committee.

Weich said that although the "ATF does not have complete information" on all of the lost guns, "it is our understanding that ATF is aware of 11 instances" beyond the Border Patrol agent's killing where a Fast and Furious firearm "was recovered in connection with a crime of violence in the United States."

It seems as if the “understandingâ€

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