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You\u2019ve probably heard the news that when Mexican authorities raided the hideout of Joaqu\u00edn \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzm\u00e1n Loera,\u00a0the head of the murderous Sinaloa drug cartel, on Jan. 8, they recovered a .50-caliber Barrett rifle that was trafficked through the ATF\u2019s disastrous \u201cFast and Furious\u201d debacle.<\/p>\n
What you may not know, but probably suspected, is that the more information that surfaces surrounding Fast and Furious, the more it appears that the Obama administration deliberately helped traffic guns from the United States to the highest levels of the most ruthless and deadly drug cartels in Mexico for no other reason than to support the absurd claim\u2014asserted by everyone from Barack Obama<\/a> to his attorney general, Eric Holder<\/a>, to his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton\u2014that 90 percent of the guns used in crimes in Mexico originated in the U.S., and that imposing more gun control upon law-abiding Americans would somehow control international criminal networks with billions of dollars at their fingertips.<\/p>\n When you look at the evidence in aggregate, no other explanation seems possible, let alone plausible. Think about it.<\/p>\n To justify Fast and Furious, Obama\u2019s ATF claimed, in effect, that they were allowing thousands of guns to \u201cwalk\u201d across the U.S.-Mexico border to try to identify criminal networks operating in the two countries.<\/p>\n But if that\u2019s the case, then why did they tell investigators to stand down when they attempted to track the guns after they crossed the border?<\/p>\n