re: #64 Rightwingconspirator

My conclusion is the buck stops with the acting head of the ATF. I’d like to know if Holder and or Sec State Hilary Clinton was briefed given the risks to our law enforcement relationship with Mexico.

After reading most of what I could find on the ‘net, I really still object to the poor execution of a plan like this. Letting guns go out like that is (to me at least) far more dangerous than bugging cars and phones. Far more perilous to be trying something like that in another country. Far more risky than drones and humans on the ground blending in.

Mexico has no interest in GOP talking points but has no small level of outrage.

I see their reaction as entirely legitimate.
Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa says those in the ATF that are to blame for the illegal gun-running operation should punished to the fullest extent of the law.

Mexican lawmakers have condemned the US ‘Operation Fast and Furious,’ which purportedly allows gun smuggling in order to track weapons to Mexican drug lords.

Maybe if we had a real director instead of an acting head of the agency, things wouldnt be so effed up.

Ever since this position has become subject to confirmation by the Senate in 2006, not one nominee has been confirmed. The gun lobby has made sure of this. So we go from one acting director to the next.