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Fri Mar-04-11 10:07 PM
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| US ATF Secretly Arming Mexican Drug Cartels (Mar 3, 2011 - CBS) |
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Run time: 06:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntp4iv_s0dY
Posted on YouTube: March 04, 2011
By YouTube Member: HenryBloggit
Views on YouTube: 1420
Posted on DU: March 05, 2011
By DU Member: JohnyCanuck
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| Hoopla Phil
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Fri Mar-04-11 10:52 PM
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| 1. I'm glad you posted this but |
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If you happen over the gun forum you'll see that this has been discussed there for over a month.
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Fri Mar-04-11 11:42 PM
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Sat Mar-05-11 12:41 AM
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| 3. Too follow the guns and see where they went, |
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and then identify and round up the gangs that received them was what the whistleblower ATF agent says they were told by their superiors. However, I believe the video mentions they didn't inform the Mexican authorities about this plan, so that seems rather strange. Step A, letting the guns through to the gangs apparently went well, but Step B, identifying and rounding up the gangsters that got the guns apparently hasn't gone quite so smoothly.
If the plan had been, for whatever perverse reason, to increase the mayhem and violence that goes hand in hand with the illegal drug trade, it seems this plan would actually have worked quite well.
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Sat Mar-05-11 04:42 AM
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| 7. Or, is the intent to militarize both sides of the border? If the plan was to follow the guns |
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wouldn't the government of Mexico need to be informed of the strategy and co-operate with tracking the firearms? Apparently the cartels have all the guns they need because they left the two rifles used to kill the border agent at the scene of the crime. Some strategy these chess players have.
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Sat Mar-05-11 11:30 AM
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| 11. To up the number of "American" guns seized in raids in Mexico. |
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Currently the number of US guns seized from cartels in Mexico is around 12%.
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Sat Mar-05-11 02:01 AM
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Sat Mar-05-11 04:39 AM
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| 6. I see we have another chess player in the person of attorney general Eric Holder. |
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Sat Mar-05-11 08:38 AM
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| 9. Well, we must look forward. nt |
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Sat Mar-05-11 08:37 AM
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| 8. This is why the drug war continues, |
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because it is profitable. This nation is not the greatest nation and it's not even close.
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Sat Mar-05-11 09:19 AM
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| 10. Makes me wonder who may be getting a kickback... |
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...within the Do"J" and/or ATF?
Simply disgusting.
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