https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/12/03/fridays-fast-furious-fallout-fatal-falsehoods-from-feds/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 02:22:52 -0400<![CDATA[To give a quick background: Operation Fast &amp; Furious, of course, was an incredibly botched government program where federal law enforcement agencies handed over firearms willy-nilly to Mexican narco-terrorists and then lost track of the weapons&#8230; no, really, that&#8217;s what they did, and the next person who comes up with a legitimate and/or sane reason for them doing that will be the first. As you might imagine, Congressional watchdogs &#8211; Republican ones; the Democrats are largely hiding from this one &#8211; are a bit perturbed about this, not least because it turns out that the Justice Department gave out patently false information when asked about it the first time. Which is to say, DoJ denied that it handed over firearms willy-nilly to Mexican narco-terrorists and then lost track of the weapons.]]>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:05:16 -0500<![CDATA[Moe Lane]]>https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/12/03/fridays-fast-furious-fallout-fatal-falsehoods-from-feds-n41364