Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 1 June, 2012 | David Codrea
The Mexican ambassador to the United States told a Capitol Hill forum that his government was “kept in the dark” about U.S. government-condoned and abetted “gunwalking” operations, and also questioned the intent behind Operation Fast and Furious, The Los Angeles Times is reporting today. Appearing before “the New Democrat Network...a center-left think tank and advocacy organization, and the New Policy Institute, one of its sister organizations,” Arturo Sarukhan’s claims raise questions as to why major news outlets like The Times are just now getting around to reporting on information raised in this column and on the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog back in January, 2011.
“Sarukhan complained that his government had been left in the dark about operations to stop gun smuggling at the border,” the report confirms.
“Mexico was never apprised how the operation would be designed and implemented,” Sarukhan claimed. "Regardless of whether this was or was not the intent or the design of Fast and Furious, the thinking that you can let guns walk across the border...is really an outstanding lack of understanding of how these criminal organizations are operating on both sides of our common borders."
That latter quote is significant, as it raises the possibility from a prominent official, one assigned credibility by two governments and the media, that the intent of “gunwalking” may not have been to “maintain operational control of those weapons.”
Also significant is the leftist bent of the groups hosting Sarukhan, as opposed to a neutral forum, and the fact that despite citing “poisoned…wellsprings” in transnational gun trafficking efforts directly resulting from the government’s role in criminal actions, the direction of “Authorized Journalist” Jamie Goldberg’s article predictably steers his readers down a familiar path.
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