It worked exactly as designed.

Moe, as someone with a national voice, when you refer to F&F as a ‘botched’ operation it lends credence to the Obama Administration meme that F&F was somehow a bureaucratic snafu, a mishap, simple negligence and the like. It would be great if people of your standing would begin with the premise that the operation worked perfectly and that the coverup was botched.

As of today, I believe the following is uncontradicted:

That Group VII at the Phoenix ATF Task Force was Ordered NOT to follow the guns and that if they did they would be terminated.
http://is.gd/Nqf2i0 (Group VII was the tip of the spear as it were and were involved in the transfer of the 2,000+ guns we commonly refer to as F&F)

There was no tracking program for the guns. No RFID program, No Nano Transmitter program. No human tracking program. No Satellite tracking program, nor any CCTV tracking program. There was NO Coordination with Any Mexican LEO.

CBS would Report early on: “For months, ATF agents followed 50-caliber Barrett rifles and other guns believed headed for the Mexican border, but were ordered to let them go. One distraught agent was often overheard on ATF radios begging and pleading to be allowed to intercept transports. The answer: “Negative. Stand down.” ” http://is.gd/T0yZNj

Ultimately the only way the guns were tracked, was when they were found at Murder Scenes. This was the plan all along.
http://is.gd/RwWdOU

This is even more egregious when one considers that ATF Officials were “Giddy” every time they learned a Dead Mexican could be traced to F&F . http://is.gd/ALkqRX

In February 2011, the DoJ wrote to Sen. Grassley and said that the DoJ never ?knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser who then transported them into Mexico.? ATF, the letter added, makes ?every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and prevent their transportation into Mexico.? This is the infamous letter which has now been factually ‘revised’ by the DoJ…because everything they said was later proven to be 100% untrue.

As Agent John Dodson, the lead whistleblower in this matter stated ?I?m boots on the ground and I?ve seen it done (let guns go through) and I had done it and I was instructed to do it almost every day I was down there. It happened,? he said. ?What we were doing in my opinion was wrong. (Gunwalking) is not what we do and for my agency to openly and publicly come in and deny we are doing it, I can?t even fathom it.?

SO here’s what we know.

1. ATF & the US Attorney’s Office in Phoenix actively worked with Gun Sellers to release approximately 2,000 weapons to straw buyers with the express intent that the guns would reach Mexican Drug Cartels, and with the express intent that the guns would NOT be traced by ANY US Officials and that there would expressly be NO Coordination with counterparts in Mexican Law Enforcement.

2. We also know that the DoJ has made numerous material misstatements of fact concerning the operation some of which they have now “corrected”. Some of which flies in the face of existing oral and documentary evidence submitted under oath for which there is no counter statement under oath, rather there is only low level media leaks that the existing oral and documentary evidence is somehow untrue…although oddly no one is able to so testify under oath.

3. As of Today,
No US Official has testified under oath that there was ANY form of Tracking,
No US Official has testified under oath that there was any coordination with Mexican Officials
No US Official has testified under oath that ATF and DOJ officials were NOT giddy when they received the grim reaper’s tally of their handywork.

Here is Part 1 of a 6 part Journalist’s Guide to F&F http://is.gd/AOAttt for people who are interested.

Also Cam & Company at NRANews.com covers this topic regularly 6-9 PST when there are new developments…which is pretty much weekly.

There isn’t time to address the role of DHS, the State Dept, the FBI, the missing 3rd weapon from Agent Terry’s murder, violation of Federal Whistleblower Statutes, perjury, contempt of Congress, grenade walking, F&F equivalency operations in Texas and Florida, guns shipped to MS-13 and a host of other issues related to F&F.

Suffice to say, You would be on very solid ground to state that Operation F&F worked exactly as intended rather than to assert that F&F was somehow a bothced operation. Again I leave people with the Journalist’s guide to F&F as a nice primer from which to form their own opinions. http://is.gd/AOAttt

As Veteran Paratrooper Kurt Hoffman writes “To allow the characterization of “Project Gunwalker” as a “botched sting operation” to go unchallenged is to give the perpetrators near the very top of the Obama government a free pass on the utter evil of this monstrosity, and allow “gun control” apologists to blame it on desperation (see http://is.gd/sC4HQU) stemming from “weak U.S. gun laws,” because of the “gun lobby.” http://is.gd/rHCDkX

As we all know the Bush Administration had a Gunwwalking program of limited scope with strict Tracking of the Guns and Coordinated the entire operation with their Mexican counterparts. Gunwalking isn’t the problem,….Not Tracking the Guns, Not Coordinating with Mexican LOE and Grimly Cheering on every newly discovered pile of Mexican corpses is the Problem. Sadly, No one at DoJ or ATF cared until an American was killed as if the scores of dead Mexicans killed before Agent Terry were somehow acceptable collateral damage… Typical Dem racism on a par with Planned Parenthood…as long as the political agenda is achieved, the amount of minority casualties is irrelevent. They need to be called out on this. Loudly, and at every opportunity. No more free passes.