Thread: Special Prosecutor in ATF case

Operation Fast and Furious was the ATF’s botched gun trafficking investigation in Arizona that allowed more than 2,000 guns to be moved into a criminal pipeline leading straight to Mexico.
CCRKBA Calls for special prosecutor in ATF debacle
- CCRKBA Wednesday, June 15, 2011
BELLEVUE, WA – Following more than four hours of testimony before a House committee today by a U.S. Senator, government whistleblowers and relatives of a slain Border Patrol agent, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is calling for the immediate suspension, without pay, of all supervisors involved in a controversial gunrunning sting operation, including the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and his deputies, and the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and determine who initiated this project and who approved it.

Operation Fast and Furious was the ATF’s botched gun trafficking investigation in Arizona that allowed more than 2,000 guns to be moved into a criminal pipeline leading straight to Mexico. Today’s stunning revelations under oath by ATF agents before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform suggest there were willful violations of ATF policy and procedures that were allegedly ordered by supervisors in Phoenix with the knowledge of the agency hierarchy in Washington, D.C.



“Today’s hearing revealed one outrage after another,â€

Plan to Let Drug Cartels Buy Guns in U.S. Approved at ‘Highest Levels' of DOJ
Friday, June 17, 2011
By Fred Lucas

Mexico Drug War




Soldiers stand guard during a media presentation of a weapons cache that includes 154 rifles and shotguns and over 92,000 rounds of ammunition, in Mexico City, Friday June 3, 2011. Army Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said Friday the weapons were found in "a subterranean stockpile" at a ranch near the northern city of Monclova this week. Authorities believe the weapons belonged to the Zetas drug cartel. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

(CNSNews.com) - Instead of trying to stop the flow of weapons from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels, the Obama administration’s “Operation Fast and Furiousâ€

ATF Director Could Watch Live Video of Cartel Gun Buys--While Permitting Them to Proceed
Friday, June 17, 2011
By Edwin Mora

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ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson

(CNSNews.com) - The acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was able to watch live video surveillance feeds as intermediaries for Mexican drug cartels purchased guns at licensed U.S. firearms dealers for transhipment south of the border--while ATF agents in the field were specificaly ordered not to stop the purchases, intercept the purchasers after they made their deals, or retrieve the guns after they were bought.

Two guns purchased in this Obama Administration project dubbed "Operation Fast and Furious" were eventually retrieved--at the scene in Arizona of the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was gunned down by alleged operatives of the Mexican drug cartels.

At a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wedneday, Chairman Darrel Issa (R-Calif.) released an internal ATF e-mail from April 2010 that shows that Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson wanted the Web address for hidden cameras located inside Arizona gun stores where the straw purchases were allowed to happen.

“With this information, Acting Director Melson was able to sit at his desk in Washington and himself watch a live feed of straw buyers entering the gun stores and purchasing dozens of AK-47 variants,â€

Must have special prosecutor in this case for any Justice to take place.