Mexico still waiting for answers on Fast and Furious gun program

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By Ken Ellingwood, Richard A. Serrano and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
September 19, 2011, 5:00 p.m.
Reporting from Mexico City and Washington— Last fall's slaying of Mario Gonzalez, the brother of a Mexican state prosecutor, shocked people on both sides of the border. Sensational news reports revealed that cartel hit men had tortured Gonzalez, and forced him to make a videotaped "confession" that his high-powered sister was on the take.

But American authorities concealed one disturbing fact about the case from their Mexican counterparts: U.S. federal agents had allowed AK-47 assault rifles later found in the killers' arsenal to be smuggled across the border under the notorious Fast and Furious gun-trafficking program.

U.S. officials also kept mum as other weapons linked to Fast and Furious turned up at dozens of additional Mexican crime scenes, with an unconfirmed toll of at least 150 people killed or wounded.

Months after the deadly lapses in the program were revealed in the U.S. media — prompting congressional hearings and the reassignment of the acting chief of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — top Mexican officials say American authorities have still not offered them a proper accounting of what went wrong.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-fast-furious-20110920,0,5544168.story

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. I think they will be waiting for quite some time for an answer from this administration

[gratuitous]

2. Yes, I'd advise our friends in Mexico to monitor the temperature in Hell

Because it will freeze over long before the United States owns up to any part of its little "Let's throw a few guns into a murderous situation and see what happens, mmmkay?" program.

[a la izquierda]

3. Truly, I would love to have been inside...

the meeting where the PTB decided this was a brilliant idea. I mean, :wtf: