http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.co...iid=SF_F_River
Fortune magazine is hardly a left wing publication. Ebon has published an article that basically says ATF agents did not provide any guns to the straw buyers, did not facilitate smuggling guns across the border, and were stymied by prosecutors who claimed the were no laws broken when eighteen year olds, with clean records, bought multiple guns. Get it, our gun control laws are so lax prosecutors felt it was a waste of time to seek convictions of the straw buyers working for the Mexican drug cartels. She also points out that the guns were not "tracked" ATF agents only had the serial numbers of the weapons.
There was finally a program approved during F&F were guns were provided by the ATF to straw buyers so they could be tracked the guns after they entered Mexico. It involved one lone ATF agent who is now Issa's whistle blower.
I admit I have not read the full article yet, but I heard an interview Katherine Ebon gave. What she said sounded credible and was obviously well researched.
06-28-2012, 08:54 AM
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