Operation Fast and Furious described as “the perfect storm of idiocy” by acting ATF attaché to Mexico

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That sums it up nicely.

Funny, I don’t recall the word “gunwalking” coming up even one time during Obama’s speech yesterday to the National Council of La Raza. Would have been topical, no?

CBS News reports:

In advance of a hearing later today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a report containing new testimony and allegations in the ATF gunwalker case. According to the report, Carlos Canino, Acting ATF Attache in Mexico, calls the strategy his agency employed: “The perfect storm of idiocy.”

“We armed the [Sinaloa] cartel,” Canino told investigators. “It is disgusting.” Canino will be a key witness at the hearing.

But it’s not just the Sinaloa cartel. Documents obtained by Congressional investigators show weapons – sold under ATF’s watch in Operation Fast and Furious out of the Phoenix office – have been used by at least three Mexican drug cartels: Sinaloa, El Teo and La Familia.

In other words, Congressional investigators say the very agency charged with preventing weapons from falling into the hands of violent cartels south of the border … instead facilitated it.

Keep reading.

Here is the link to the joint staff report referenced in the article. You should at least read through the executive summary and the findings. If you haven’t completely lost faith in the Obama Justice Department by now, you will after reading that.

***UPDATE*** Here is Chuck Grassley on Fox News earlier today:


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