Dovetailing neatly with my initial thoughts on the matter, Bob Owens over at Pajamas Media takes note of the disturbing truth about “Gunwalker”:
…ATF agents testifying in front of the House Oversight Committee could not explain how the operation was supposed to succeed when their surveillance efforts stopped at the border and interdiction was never an option.
ATF Agent John Dodson, testifying in front of the committee, said that in his entire law enforcement career, he had “never been involved in or even heard of an operation in which law enforcement officers let guns walk.” He continued: “I cannot begin to think of how the risk of letting guns fall into the hands of known criminals could possibly advance any legitimate law enforcement interest.”
The obvious answer is that Gunwalker’s objective was never intended to be a “legitimate law enforcement interest.” Instead, it appears that ATF Acting Director Ken Melson and Department of Justice senior executives specifically created an operation that was designed from the outset to arm Mexican narco-terrorists and increase violence substantially along both sides of the Southwest border…
When you put this together with the oft-repeated lie by the Obama Administration that a large portion of the cartel’s weapons are legally purchased in the United States, you can easily start putting two and two together – send weapons from the US to Mexico, wait for the mayhem, claim that the mayhem requires stricter gun control. As the official story that this was designed to provide traceable weapons to the cartels is clearly idiotic, I can only work on the assumption that the backdoor to gun control was the real purpose.
Of course, the only way to find out for sure is to thoroughly investigate – something which can’t be done as long as the Obama Administration continues to stonewall. We might not get to the full truth about this matter until after Obama is out of office.
2012 really can’t get here fast enough…
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