The gun walking scandal that’s engulfed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which has even attracted the attention of normally lackadaisical news outlets such as CBS News, seems to have made its way south. Now some Mexican legislators are positively livid that Operation Fast and Furious-whose creators seem to be as harebrained as the inane film it takes its name from-was used as a vehicle to put high-powered firearms into the hands of Mexican narco-criminals traveling back into their native country.
Not only have these weapons been used to kill Mexican civilians, they were used to murder U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, and as the Christian Science Monitor article points out, a gun smuggled from the United States-not yet determined to come from this imbecilic federal “sting” operation-was also used to murder ICE agent Jaime Zapata. David Codrea has an excellent analysis of the criminal negligence of the federal government in this regard, which you should read in its entirety.
Whether or not these outrageous revelations will lead to any substantive changes in how the federal government does business is a question that has yet to be answered. It’s bad enough that we have an administration trying its hardest to thwart the implementation of the federal government’s immigration laws, but what’s been uncovered in recent days illustrates much darker, perhaps criminal, lapses on the part of the executive branch. Hopefully, our nation’s lawmakers will get to the bottom of things before any more brave federal law enforcement and immigration agents meet their untimely demise.
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