Taxpayer Funds Used to Buy Weapons for Fast & Furious

William Lajeunesse
Fox News
September 26, 2011

Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa cartel — the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic weapons, sold them to criminals and then watched as the guns disappeared.

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This disclosure, revealed in documents obtained by Fox News, could undermine the Department of Justice’s previous defense that Operation Fast and Furious was a “botched” operation where agents simply “lost track” of weapons as they were transferred from one illegal buyer to another. Instead, it heightens the culpability of the federal government as Mexico, according to sources, has opened two criminal investigations into the operation that flooded their country with illegal weapons.

Operation Fast and Furious began in October 2009. In it, federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives encouraged gun stores to sell weapons to an arms smuggling gang, then watched as the guns crossed the border and were used in crimes. Each month, the agency allowed hundreds of guns to go South, despite opposition from some agents.

All told, the gang spent more than $1.25 million for the illegal guns.

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3 Responses to “Taxpayer Funds Used to Buy Weapons for Fast Furious”

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  2. Tax Money? In the good old days you had to use the money you were making from drug dealing to run your secret contraband gun deals. If they are using tax money, what are they doing with the drug money?

  3. This news over a month old. We’ve known for weeks that part of Obama’s 2009 stimulus (which was supposed to fix the infrastructure) was used to fund Project Gunrunner.

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