Napolitano Doesn’t Know if Any ‘Fast and Furious’ Guns Were Apprehended
The Justice Department’s Operation Fast and Furious, which began in fall 2009, intentionally allowed guns to flow to Mexican drug cartels with the intention of tracing the guns to the crime scene. The operation was halted in December 2010 after two of the guns from the operation were found at the murder scene of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been investigating the matter for more than a year. The House recently voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failure to produce subpoenaed documents.
It seems that we're stuck. We have people clamoring for more gun laws — as if it will help to outlaw outlaws, while it's obvious that some important laws that we already have are not being properly enforced, or deliberately flaunted, at the national level. The 'Fast and Furious' debacle is a good example. The all too familiar bureaucratic mantra repeated: “I just can't answer that. I don't know.”
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