NPR: Congress Probes ATF Role In Border Agent's Death

[friendly_iconoclast]

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/05/136025769/congress-probes-atf-role-in-border-agents-death


NPR: Congress Probes ATF Role In Border Agent's Death

May 5, 2011
The murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Mexico last year has touched off a scandal that's now reverberating in Washington.

Members of Congress say that weapons found at the scene of Brian Terry's death have been traced to a federal program that allegedly allowed hundreds of guns to go from the U.S. across the border.
Investigators at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives called it Operation Fast and Furious, just like the blockbuster movie. Agents wanted to follow the flow of guns from the U.S. into the hands of deadly Mexican drug cartels. But the only thing that's coming fast and furious now are hostile questions from Congress.

Attorney General Eric Holder, who oversees the ATF, tried to explain what he knew about the episode at two hearings on Capitol Hill this week.....

I can't wait to hear how "All Things Considered" has now become part of an GOP/NRA plot.

[gejohnston]

1. I'll get the pop corn

:popcorn:

[ThatPoetGuy]

2. Where have you been?

"I can't wait to hear how 'All Things Considered' has now become part of an GOP/NRA plot."

You think NPR is a sacred cow of the left wing, a font of true knowledge? Good god, man. The station FIRED anyone who didn't support Bush's invasion of Iraq.

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. Thanks for demonstrating the genetic argument for us, but that wasn't what I was referring to.

Certain other posters (not you, of course) have pooh-poohed media reports of Gunwalker/Operation Fast And Furious since they

first started appearing. In fact, one of the most vocal spent much time+energy claiming that the whistleblower accounts at the

heart of this were really a NRA disinformation campaign.


As more and more corroborating evidence has come to light, that original ATF cheerleader has mostly gone silent.

[beevul]

4. K&R

[X_Digger]

5. K&R! n/t