U.S. Government Used Taxpayer Funds to Buy, Sell Weapons During 'Fast and Furious,' Documents Show
By William Lajeunesse
Published 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.
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.
