{"id":11156,"date":"2011-09-06T17:19:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T21:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11156"},"modified":"2011-09-06T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T21:19:10","slug":"atf-gunrunner-scandal-sprouts-more-legs%e2%80%a6in-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11156\/atf-gunrunner-scandal-sprouts-more-legs%e2%80%a6in-indiana\/","title":{"rendered":"ATF Gunrunner Scandal Sprouts More Legs\u2026in Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-national\/exclusive-report-documents-indicate-atf-fbi-allowed-indiana-crime-gun-sales\" target=\"_blank\">David Codrea<\/a>, the blogger who originally broke the \u201cGunrunner\u201d scandal at ATF, reports that another guns-to-criminals scheme is sprouting up in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>There, a gun seller defended himself recently against an FBI demand for information about guns sold to American crime gangs with all-too-familiar response: I was just following ATF\u2019s guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, according to Codrea\u2019s extensive documentation there is now another instance of ATF deliberately violating gun control laws to let weapons fall into criminal hands in the hopes of catching bigger criminal fish.\u00a0 And how\u2019s this for oversight: when the FBI was told the Indiana gun dealer was working with ATF, the FBI promised to remove the seller from any further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Add the American Midwest to the list of ATF scandals including Phoenix, AZ, (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/58\/984-gunrunner-scandal-beating-a-path-to-ag-holders-door-\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gunrunner, Operation Fast &amp; Furious<\/a>) and Tampa, FL (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54\/1074-operation-castaway-another-atf-gun-scandal-\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Castaway<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Last week the <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2011\/08\/30\/fast-and-furious-update-doj-to-shuffle-atf-director-kenneth-melson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Acting ATF director was reassigned<\/a> and the Arizona U.S. Attorney abruptly resigned.\u00a0 With a third front opening up, how much longer can U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder \u2013 the man charged with oversight of ATF \u2013 keep his job?<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Michelle Malkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Codrea, the blogger who originally broke the \u201cGunrunner\u201d scandal at ATF, reports that another guns-to-criminals scheme is sprouting up in Indiana. There, a gun seller defended himself recently against an FBI demand for information about guns sold to American crime gangs with all-too-familiar response: I was just following ATF\u2019s guidelines. That\u2019s right, according to [&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":[2613,351,498,1966,2645],"class_list":["post-11156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-atf","tag-corruption","tag-eric-holder","tag-fbi","tag-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156","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=11156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11160,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156\/revisions\/11160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}