dback
07-08-2011, 06:54 PM
I am very good friends with principals (retail) involved with the sale of many of these firearms. After watching this unfold, I'm going to slip into my 'foil cap' and make these observations.
I am beginning to believe that this administration wanted firearms sold into Central America and to be used in violent crimes in order to push for a UN/International mandate for some type of firearms control. My guess is that it would lead back to a Rahm Emanuel type idea. The calculated risk they were willing to take was that the weapons would not be used in any confrontation with US agents, rather only within Mexico, on fellow Mexican citizens.
No particular order;
1) I know for a fact that retailers were pressured to make suspect sales they would not have made under ordinary circumstances. They were required to and did, warn BAFTE of such sales.
2) BAFTE implanted no devices into suspect firearms leaving them absolutely no real way of tracing/following the "claimed" 2500 weapons......especially after weapons crossed border.
3) Special Agent in charge of the Phoenix District (Virginia O'Brien) who developed 'Fast and Furious' was transferred to Florida where she was to develop an identical program there named 'Operation Castaway'. Difference was that these weapons would travel to Mexico via Honduras......again, no way to trace/track suspect weapons.
4) Agents have testified under oath that they pleaded with superiors to allow them to 'take down' weapons prior to entry into Mexico and were ordered to 'stand down'.
5) "Never let a serious crisis go to waste"......what better way to 'back door' gun legislation then to assist in the scope of and highlight, the crisis itself? 'Plausible deniability' would have been easy in light of the fact that this program (or similar aspects of it) were instituted under previous administrations. The sale and trail of "contraband" is a law enforcement technique used in many instances. Personally, I don't think they ever intended to trail this contraband to 'take down' drug lords, rather, only to highlight their origination. OR......win-win.....if perchance a 'Drug Lord' were taken down.......'Look at our successful campaign to stop drugs/gun smuggling.'
OK.....flame away!!!!!!
Wish Yardley was here ;-)
I am beginning to believe that this administration wanted firearms sold into Central America and to be used in violent crimes in order to push for a UN/International mandate for some type of firearms control. My guess is that it would lead back to a Rahm Emanuel type idea. The calculated risk they were willing to take was that the weapons would not be used in any confrontation with US agents, rather only within Mexico, on fellow Mexican citizens.
No particular order;
1) I know for a fact that retailers were pressured to make suspect sales they would not have made under ordinary circumstances. They were required to and did, warn BAFTE of such sales.
2) BAFTE implanted no devices into suspect firearms leaving them absolutely no real way of tracing/following the "claimed" 2500 weapons......especially after weapons crossed border.
3) Special Agent in charge of the Phoenix District (Virginia O'Brien) who developed 'Fast and Furious' was transferred to Florida where she was to develop an identical program there named 'Operation Castaway'. Difference was that these weapons would travel to Mexico via Honduras......again, no way to trace/track suspect weapons.
4) Agents have testified under oath that they pleaded with superiors to allow them to 'take down' weapons prior to entry into Mexico and were ordered to 'stand down'.
5) "Never let a serious crisis go to waste"......what better way to 'back door' gun legislation then to assist in the scope of and highlight, the crisis itself? 'Plausible deniability' would have been easy in light of the fact that this program (or similar aspects of it) were instituted under previous administrations. The sale and trail of "contraband" is a law enforcement technique used in many instances. Personally, I don't think they ever intended to trail this contraband to 'take down' drug lords, rather, only to highlight their origination. OR......win-win.....if perchance a 'Drug Lord' were taken down.......'Look at our successful campaign to stop drugs/gun smuggling.'
OK.....flame away!!!!!!
Wish Yardley was here ;-)