In a breaking, exclusive news development today on the DOJ-ATF Gun Smuggling Scandal, Fox News is reporting that the FBI, after consulting with the ATF, allowed at least 2 convicted felons to purchase 360 firearms that later wound up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
Under federal law, convicted felons are not allowed to purchase firearms.
As stated in the Fox News report:
...according to court records reviewed by Fox News, two of the 20 defendants indicted in the Fast and Furious investigation have felony convictions and criminal backgrounds that experts say, at the very least, should have delayed them buying a single firearm. Instead, the duo bought dozens of guns on multiple occasions while federal officials watched on closed-circuit cameras.
Congressional and law-enforcement sources say the situation suggests the FBI, which operates the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, knowingly allowed the purchases to go forward after consulting with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which initiated Operation Fast and Furious.
Both the FBI and the ATF refuse to comment on how these convicted felons successfully ran guns into Mexico even as the Feds watched every move.
The scandalous program known as Project Gunwalker, which arose out of the DOJ-ATF scheme called 'Operation Fast and Furious,' resulted in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. In May of this year the U.S. Government charged Manuel Osorio-Arellanes with killing Border Patrol agent Brian Terry using one of the guns smuggled into Mexico by ATF agents.
The two suspects in this aspect of the case, however, are Jacob Wayne Chambers and Sean Christopher Stewart, both of Phoenix, Arizona. Chambers bought 70 guns that went to the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico. Stewart bought 290 guns that also went to Mexico.
But the most curious development in the revelation concerning Chambers and Stewart is not the fact that they smuggled U.S. guns into Mexico with the full knowledge of the U.S. Government, but the continued stonewalling of federal officials:
When asked about the breakdown, Stephen Fischer, a spokesman for the NICS System, said the FBI had no comment. However, an ATF agent who worked on the Fast and Furious investigation, told Fox News that NICS officials called the ATF in Phoenix whenever their suspects tried to buy a gun. That conversation typically led to a green light for the buyers, when it should have stopped them.
As usual in this scandal, it is the whistleblowers who continue to provide the information while the Obama Administration remains stubbornly mum.
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