{"id":10034,"date":"2011-06-09T12:49:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10034"},"modified":"2011-06-09T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:49:54","slug":"smoking-guns-found-in-atf-gunrunner-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10034\/smoking-guns-found-in-atf-gunrunner-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Guns Found in ATF Gunrunner Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304778304576373932406296842.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> reports (subscription required) that a raid of an arsenal in Mexico identified at least five guns traced back to a controversial program allowing guns to \u201cwalk\u201d across the border into the hands of drug cartels.\u00a0 The guns were part of the \u201cFast and Furious\u201d program run out of the Phoenix, AZ office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to catch higher level criminals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/58-immigration\/984-gunrunner-scandal-beating-a-path-to-ag-holders-door-\" target=\"_blank\">CFIF<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/05\/09\/doj-deflects-gunrunner-fast-and-furious-blame-to-local-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\">others<\/a> have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-31727_162-20044024-10391695.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> on the presence of another ATF-tracked gun at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.\u00a0 The confirmation of five more guns linked to illegal activity will heighten pressure by House Government Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) to break through Justice Department stonewalling on an operation that went predictably out of control.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on Issa\u2019s committee, is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/165467-rep-cummings-defends-not-signing-letter-to-obama-on-gun-tracking-program\" target=\"_blank\">not joining<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/06\/09\/issa-schedules-second-gunrunner-fast-and-furious-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\">growing bipartisan chorus<\/a> for more answers from Attorney General Eric Holder, whose administrative portfolio includes oversight of ATF.<\/p>\n<p>One American is already dead because of ATF\u2019s misguided sting operation.\u00a0 With more than 1,000 \u201cFast and Furious\u201d guns still unaccounted for, let\u2019s hope it doesn\u2019t take more deaths to convince Holder that political considerations should take a back seat to our Border Patrol Agents\u2019 personal saftey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that a raid of an arsenal in Mexico identified at least five guns traced back to a controversial program allowing guns to \u201cwalk\u201d across the border into the hands of drug cartels.\u00a0 The guns were part of the \u201cFast and Furious\u201d program run out of the Phoenix, AZ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2613,1464,1460,2199,498,2645,1304,2642,2641],"class_list":["post-10034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-atf","tag-border","tag-border-patrol","tag-drug-cartel","tag-eric-holder","tag-guns","tag-mexico","tag-operation-fast-and-furious","tag-project-gunrunner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10038,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034\/revisions\/10038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}