Fast and
Furious vs. Wide Receiver
Was Bush’s ‘Wide Receiver’ in 2005 and Obama’s
‘Fast and Furious’ in 2009 the same thing with the same purpose?
By de Andréa
June 25, 2012
Among the many responses to my
articles titled “What
Did Obama Know And When Did He Know It” and “The
Question of Executive Privilege” was
the statement; “Well…President Bush authorized the same basic operation in 2005”. Not even close my friends!
“Wide Receiver” in 2005 was a small scale law enforcement gun
smuggling interdiction effort that involved Phoenix-based ATF agents working in
conjunction with Mexican law enforcement.
ATF supervisors and justice department prosecutors in Arizona free State
Wide Receiver began in 2005
Wide Receiver was authorized by President
Bush. It involved four hundred guns. All of
the weapons had RFID trackers
installed in them, and they were actively tracked. The Mexican government was kept fully
informed, and they were an active participant. The ATF agents tracked the guns
using radio devices and aircraft. They
wanted to find out where the guns ended up, in the hands of which cartels and
where they were, so that a case could be made.
It was an effort to track these people to locate them, and arrest them.
The Bush administration, as part of
Wide Receiver, notified the Mexican government when arms and drug smugglers
were crossing. Once the ATF found out
the smugglers were disabling the tracking devices that were planted in the guns
the program was shut down in October of 2007 but only after 1400 arrests were
made and the guns confiscated.
Now, here is Fast and Furious
Fast and Furious began in October of
2009. Obama was in his tenth month, wide
Receiver hadn’t existed for two years. Fast
and Furious involved over 2,000 guns. Wide
Receiver was roughly 400 guns. No
tracking devices were planted in the Fast and Furious guns. Obama didn’t care where they ended up or how
many people would be killed. No effort
was made to track them at all. No
helicopters, no on-the-ground surveillance of the straw purchasers. The guns were sold, they were walked across
the border, and that was it. Four
federal agencies were involved in maybe as many as 10 cities in five states,
and the Mexican government was not notified that the program even existed. They did not use any tracking devices or
aircraft to try to find and track the smugglers, remember that wasn’t the
purpose of the operation. Moreover, if
that isn’t enough, the local ATF field agents were ordered not’ to follow the guns
or the straw purchasers. Fast and
Furious was a frame job of American gun dealers, and to create a fiasco to
demonize guns in America
Fast and Furious is worse than anything
you could have conjured up in your own mind.
Wide Receiver has nothing at all in common, other than guns crossing the
border, that’s it. Federal agents
furthermore, — are you following all this, my friend? — Federal agents were not even allowed to
interdict the guns; - on the contrary, they even ran interference for the
smugglers with local law enforcement on multiple occasions to make sure those
guns made it across the border and into the hands of the warring Mexican drug cartels
paramilitary.
Watch a video of Senator
John Cornyn questioning Eric Holder on Nov. 8, 2011.
Read what Ann Coulter has to say about Fast and Furious.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Don’t misunderstand; I am not trying to defend Bush. But to equate Obama with any other president in American history is gross ignorance and a mistake of astronomical proportions my friend…
de Andréa
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