EXCLUSIVE: You've heard this shocking "fact" before -- on TV and radio, in newspapers, on the Internet and from the highest politicians in the land: 90 percent of the weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the United States.
-- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it to reporters on a flight to Mexico City.
-- CBS newsman Bob Schieffer referred to it while interviewing President Obama.
-- California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said at a Senate hearing: "It is unacceptable to have 90 percent of the guns that are picked up in Mexico and used to shoot judges, police officers and mayors ... come from the United States."
-- William Hoover, assistant director for field operations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, testified in the House of Representatives that "there is more than enough evidence to indicate that over 90 percent of the firearms that have either been recovered in, or interdicted in transport to Mexico, originated from various sources within the United States."
There's just one problem with the 90 percent "statistic" and it's a big one:
It's just not true.
In fact, it's not even close. The fact is, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/02/myth-percent-small-fraction-guns-mexico-come/#ixzz1ySpeDsSh
Mike said:The Obama administration was operating Fast & Furious in an attempt to have many numbers of guns found in Mexico to have originated in the USA for a another hard run at gun control in the U.S.
It backfired and they were caught. Serves them right for the lying and scheming.
Oldtimer said:Mike said:The Obama administration was operating Fast & Furious in an attempt to have many numbers of guns found in Mexico to have originated in the USA for a another hard run at gun control in the U.S.
It backfired and they were caught. Serves them right for the lying and scheming.
:roll: Bubba and Billy Bob told you that so you believe it :roll: :lol:
Is that why the Bush administration ran operation wide receiver way back in 2005 and 2006 ? They trying to get some more guns into Mexico so they could get more gun control put into place?
BULLPUCKEY--Thousands of guns were already being smuggled into Mexico by some of your greedy Bubba buddies- to some of the top criminal cartel folks- and thats why both operations were ran, to try and get those that were funding the smuggling of the weapons..
It's important to note that the Bush administration oversaw something similar to Fast and Furious. Called Operation Wide Receiver, it used the common tactic of "controlled delivery," whereby agents would allow an illegal transaction to take place, closely follow the movements of the arms, and then descend on the culprits. But Fast and Furious is different because it was "uncontrolled delivery," whereby the criminals were essentially allowed to drop off the map. Perhaps more importantly, Wide Receiver was conducted with the cooperation of the Mexican government. Fast and Furious was not.
The Justice Department has retracted a second statement made to the Senate Judiciary Committee. During a hearing last week, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that his predecessor, then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey, had been briefed about gunwalking in Operation Wide Receiver. Now, the Department is retracting that statement and claiming Holder "inadvertently" made that claim to the Committee. The Department's letter failed to apologize to former Attorney General Mukasey for the false accusation. This is the second major retraction the Justice Department has made in the last seven months. In December 2011, the Department retracted its claim that the ATF had not allowed illegally purchased guns to be trafficked to Mexico.
Mike said:The ATF under Bush only let only a small number of guns go through because they found the RFID transmitters didn't work properly. They stopped. No more guns walking.
The ATF under Buckwheat made a deal with the gun shops to sell guns and never tried to track them with electronics or otherwise. They let them walk to get headlines in the media when the serial numbers were turned in to the USA.
Leave it to a couple of niggas to run a stupid operation as this.
Oldtimer said:Mike said:The ATF under Bush only let only a small number of guns go through because they found the RFID transmitters didn't work properly. They stopped. No more guns walking.
The ATF under Buckwheat made a deal with the gun shops to sell guns and never tried to track them with electronics or otherwise. They let them walk to get headlines in the media when the serial numbers were turned in to the USA.
Leave it to a couple of niggas to run a stupid operation as this.
Yep-- and as long as you can get a few more racist simpletons to believe in your massive conspiracy theory-- you can get all ATF investigating of gun smuggling shut down- so your chickenhearted Bubba buddies of Alabama and Billy Bobs of Texas can profiteer off illegal gun smuggling operations and get more beer and supplies for your Saturday night cross burnings.....
Oldtimer said:Mike said:The ATF under Bush only let only a small number of guns go through because they found the RFID transmitters didn't work properly. They stopped. No more guns walking.
The ATF under Buckwheat made a deal with the gun shops to sell guns and never tried to track them with electronics or otherwise. They let them walk to get headlines in the media when the serial numbers were turned in to the USA.
Leave it to a couple of niggas to run a stupid operation as this.
Yep-- and as long as you can get a few more racist simpletons to believe in your massive conspiracy theory-- you can get all ATF investigating of gun smuggling shut down- so your chickenhearted Bubba buddies of Alabama and Billy Bobs of Texas can profiteer off illegal gun smuggling operations and get more beer and supplies for your Saturday night cross burnings.....
Steve said:I am sure there are many minority families that now pray that the ATF had actually investigated and intervened in gun smuggling operations instead of facilitation them...
when will liberals realize most if not all conservatives want criminals caught.. not let go with a few thousand guns...
this stupid inept operation didn't result in criminals being caught.. or keeping guns from criminals.. in fact quite the opposite happened..
anyone with any common sense and logical thinking can see the failure of the program.. :???: :?
