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USAFNoDak · June 16, 2011, 04:02 PM

2damnoldf4this posted a link to the report from Congress. In that report we find this: Unfortunately, ATF never achieved the laudable goal of dismantling a drug cartel. In
fact, ATF never even got close. After months and months of investigative work, Fast and
Furious resulted only in indictments of 20 straw purchasers. Those indictments came only after
the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The indictments, filed January 19, 2011,
focus mainly on what is known as “lying and buying.” Lying and buying involves a straw
purchaser falsely filling out ATF Form 4473, which is to be completed truthfully in order to
legally acquire a firearm. Even worse, ATF knew most of the indicted straw purchasers to be
straw purchasers before Fast and Furious even began.

So ATF knew most of these straw purchasers even before Operation Gun Walker. That begs an obvious question: Why in the H E double toothpicks weren't they arrested and put in jail? When you know a person has already committed a felony (straw purchases are felonies are they not), shouldn't you have them in the court system and maybe even locked up in jail cells? Sheesh!

June 16, 2011, 04:02 PM	#287
USAFNoDak Senior Member Join Date: August 21, 2000 Location: Minnesota, Twin Cities Posts: 1,076	2damnoldf4this posted a link to the report from Congress. In that report we find this: Unfortunately, ATF never achieved the laudable goal of dismantling a drug cartel. In fact, ATF never even got close. After months and months of investigative work, Fast and Furious resulted only in indictments of 20 straw purchasers. Those indictments came only after the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The indictments, filed January 19, 2011, focus mainly on what is known as “lying and buying.” Lying and buying involves a straw purchaser falsely filling out ATF Form 4473, which is to be completed truthfully in order to legally acquire a firearm. Even worse, ATF knew most of the indicted straw purchasers to be straw purchasers before Fast and Furious even began. So ATF knew most of these straw purchasers even before Operation Gun Walker. That begs an obvious question: Why in the H E double toothpicks weren't they arrested and put in jail? When you know a person has already committed a felony (straw purchases are felonies are they not), shouldn't you have them in the court system and maybe even locked up in jail cells? Sheesh! __________________ "If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." Samuel Adams.