Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico

[TFOGGER]

wow, what can you say about that. did they even nab the US dealer who was selling the weapons.

so not only are we not going to close the border, but we are going to arm the enemy? WTF WTF WTF WTF

The dealers that brought this "unusual" activity to the attention of BATFE, even though it was not illegal, were told to complete the sales as part of the investigation. I posted this up a week or so back, from the CBS news website. The mainstream media seems to be seriously ignoring this, probably to take heat off of the Chosen One....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/...in;contentBody

In late 2009, ATF was alerted to suspicious buys at seven gun shops in the Phoenix area. Suspicious because the buyers paid cash, sometimes brought in paper bags. And they purchased classic "weapons of choice" used by Mexican drug traffickers - semi-automatic versions of military type rifles and pistols.
Sources tell CBS News several gun shops wanted to stop the questionable sales, but ATF encouraged them to continue.

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Crazy, the things that our own Government does in our name.

[SA Friday]

These are called buy-walks in the investigation business. As long as they are a part of a developing investigation being pursued to resolution, I have no problem with it. It isn't the purchasers that one is after in these types of cases. Its the gun runners themselves, the middle men, in hopes of identifying the upper level leaders.

Problem is you don't do buy-walks without pursuing a large and active investigation. You sures the hell don't talk about active cases and you sures the hell don't burn your seller from a buy walk by talking to media about it. This just reeks of dysfunction and politics.