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By Jeremy Pelofsky
Thu Feb 2, 2012
(Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives said on Thursday senior Justice Department officials should have known about the controversial tactics that led to a bungled operation to track guns to Mexico because some details were practically at their fingertips.
The Obama administration has been under fire for almost a year about the operation dubbed "Fast and Furious". The program was meant to determine how guns were being smuggled from Arizona to violent drug cartels, but the guns were not fully tracked.
The operation, which ran from late 2009 until early 2011, came to light after two weapons from it were found in Arizona in December 2010 near the scene where U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed in a shootout with illegal immigrants.
While as many as 2,000 weapons were sold by gun dealers to people believed to be serving as straw purchasers for the Mexican drug cartels, fewer than 600 were recovered as of January 2011.
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Republican Representative Darrell Issa, issued a memorandum detailing how other federal law enforcement agents were already tracking drug cartel gun smugglers a year before Terry was killed.
He and other Republicans on the panel said at a hearing that senior Justice Department officials should have also known that guns were trafficked without surveillance from wiretap applications and details they had about a similar sting during the Bush administration known as "Wide Receiver"... [In Full]
Friday, February 3, 2012Meanwhile, NATO, of whom the US is an integral part, had entirely other plans anyway despite, as the Foreign Policy article points out above, they don't exactly know how they're going to pay for it considering the collapsing economies of most nations involved in that imperial adventure. See: NATO vows to maintain Afghanistan combat role through 2014
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U.S. and NATO officials on Thursday evening scrambled to clarify that U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's statement on Wednesday did not mean that U.S. troops would give up a combat role in Afghanistan completely in 2013, but would give Afghan security forces the lead role in operations... [More @ Foreign Policy Magazine]
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