{"id":10319,"date":"2011-07-05T13:47:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10319"},"modified":"2011-07-05T13:47:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:47:53","slug":"atf%e2%80%99s-gunrunner-program-worked-in-theory%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10319\/atf%e2%80%99s-gunrunner-program-worked-in-theory%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"ATF\u2019s Gunrunner Program Worked in Theory\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is urging federal officials to accept \u201cresponsibility\u201d but not be criminally prosecuted for a horribly bad program to sell guns to drug dealers.\u00a0 Terry\u2019s cousin, Robert Heyer, tells The Hill<\/em><\/a> that the family doesn\u2019t want government agents (or their Washington superiors) to be indicted for crimes, just for them to take responsibility for being (criminally) stupid.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s a noble sentiment for the Terry family to train its attention on the drug dealers who killed their son and cousin, killing Terry with guns intentionally sold to those drug dealers was a decision deliberately made by ATF officials.\u00a0 Therefore, it\u2019s arguable that members of the Obama Administration were criminally negligent.<\/p>\n

As if to underscore the impossibility of separating responsibility for this fiasco from its criminal consequences, The Hill<\/em>\u2019s interview with Heyer concludes with a paragraph stating that (in theory) Project Gunrunner worked as planned:<\/p>\n

One of the main ways agents would be able to partially track a gun\u2019s path under the operation was if it was found at the scene of a crime and officials were able to trace it back to the original federally authorized purchase, as was the case with the guns found at Terry\u2019s murder scene. It remains unclear whether the guns found at the scene that were linked to the operation were actually used to kill Terry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here\u2019s betting that Attorney General Eric Holder and his subordinates responsible for ATF\u2019s policies won\u2019t be using this as a defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The family of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is urging federal officials to accept \u201cresponsibility\u201d but not be criminally prosecuted for a horribly bad program to sell guns to drug dealers.\u00a0 Terry\u2019s cousin, Robert Heyer, tells The Hill that the family doesn\u2019t want government agents (or their Washington superiors) to be indicted for crimes, […]<\/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":[2613,1460,1453,498,1450,2320,2836,2645,395],"class_list":["post-10319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-atf","tag-border-patrol","tag-department-of-justice","tag-eric-holder","tag-federal","tag-gun-control","tag-gunrunner","tag-guns","tag-obama-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319","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=10319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10323,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319\/revisions\/10323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}