Operation Fast and Furious was not an ATF “gun tracking” operation. They had no intention of tracking the weapons being purchased. In fact, the whistleblower ATF agents testified that they were prevented from attempting to follow the straw purchasers. One of the agents, without ATF support, tried to rig up his own tracking device, but it failed.

I am a former patrol agent with the U.S. Border Patrol and a retired federal special agent. I have closely studied everything I have found on Fast & Furious, and I have discovered that the main stream press and media don’t provide much coverage. The little coverage that it gets is often inaccurate, especially when the writers say the operation was “botched.”

With my vast knowledge that I accumulated over many years in federal law enforcement, I know that Fast & Furious could not have happened without numerous government lawyers and law enforcement managers knowing about it.

Fast and Furious was a DOJ sanctioned operation under the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force OCDETF) program. Several federal law enforcement agencies that participate in OCDETF would have been briefed on the Fast and Furious operational proposal. DOJ, Main Justice, OCDETF program managers would have to approve it to go operational and for it to be funded.

No federal law enforcement civil servant manager would have the authority to make Fast and Furious happen, without approval from a very high level. For instance, a decision had to be made to allow weapons to be sold to the straw buyers, then allow them to take the weapons across an international boundary into Mexico. The tracking only happened after a Fast and Furious weapon was recovered from a crime scene or a criminal in Mexico.

Someone very high in our government had to have made the decision that the Mexican government would not be told about Fast and Furious.

Two federal agents have died, murdered with these weapons. In addition, there have been reports of hundreds of Mexicans being murdered with weapons from this abysmal operation.

You might find it helpful to watch video of the congressional hearings regarding Fast and Furious.

It might also be noted that the FBI initially reported only three weapons were found at the murder scene of Brian Terry. Since then, we have found they covered up the fact that there were actually three weapons seized at the scene. This was done to cover for an FBI registered informant.

The FBI also sent a convicted felon that was their registered informant into gun stores to buy weapons, even though that is a felonious act. The FBI had to have masked the conviction in the computer data base, so the deal could consummated.

The entire operation smells to high heaven of an attack on the second amendment.