{"id":11432,"date":"2011-09-27T12:04:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11432"},"modified":"2011-09-27T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:24:50","slug":"atf-sold-guns-directly-to-cartels-but-never-followed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11432\/atf-sold-guns-directly-to-cartels-but-never-followed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"ATF Sold Guns Directly to Cartels, But Never Followed Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/09\/26\/us-government-bought-and-sold-weapons-during-fast-and-furious-documents-show\/print#ixzz1Z5O6zRTL\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fox News<\/em><\/a> reports that ATF\u2019s Fast and Furious botched gun-tracking operation to Mexican drug cartels didn\u2019t stop at encouraging private gun owners to sell to known criminals with assurances of surveillance.\u00a0 Six months before Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered with one of these weapons, ATF supervisors in Phoenix directed field agents to sell the guns directly.<\/p>\n<p>The result was the same as when the guns came from private sellers: no surveillance was initiated by ATF to track the guns.\u00a0 Instead, the buyers for the cartels were allowed to store them in a stash house and ship them south with impunity.<\/p>\n<p>These are the kinds of revelations that get bureaus like ATF shut down.\u00a0 Could it also be the scandal that sinks Attorney General Eric Holder, the man who oversees ATF&#8217;s operations?<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/09\/26\/us-government-bought-and-sold-weapons-during-fast-and-furious-documents-show\/print#ixzz1Z5O6zRTL\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that ATF\u2019s Fast and Furious botched gun-tracking operation to Mexican drug cartels didn\u2019t stop at encouraging private gun owners to sell to known criminals with assurances of surveillance.\u00a0 Six months before Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered with one of these weapons, ATF supervisors in Phoenix directed field agents to sell [&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":[2613,3070,1251,498,2847,2645,1304,1249,2502],"class_list":["post-11432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-atf","tag-cartels","tag-drugs","tag-eric-holder","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-guns","tag-mexico","tag-phoenix","tag-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432","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=11432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11437,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432\/revisions\/11437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}