Gunwalker Goes Primetime

[Geee]

American Thinker:

A bureaucratic cover-up of a lethal scandal is coming apart at the seams before our eyes.

On Thursday night CBS ran a second story highlighting Project Gunwalker. Gunwalker is a cynical reference to an operation in which ATF agents allowed assault weapons to be purchased in the United States and "walked" across the southern border and into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. This allegation is denied by officials of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) or ATF. In fact, in a February 4th, 2011 letter from Assistant Attorney General Weich to Senator Charles Grassley, Weich states: "that ATF 'sanctioned' or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser who then transported them into Mexico-is false."

ATF Agent John Dodson appeared on the CBS Evening News to refute that denial. Choked with emotion, he told CBS's Sharyl Attkisson, "I'm boots on the ground in Phoenix and it has been going on every day that I've been here." Dodson was obviously moved by the death of Customs and Border Protection Agent Brian Terry, who was murdered with one such weapon on December 14, 2010.

It was shortly after Agents such as Dodson realized that the murder weapon had been involved in what critics call Project Gunwalker that posts began to show up on the ATF watchdog website CleanUpATF.org. In professing his own sense of guilt, Dodson revealed his motivation for coming forward now, without disguise. "Here I am," Dodson said. "Tell me I didn't do the things I did. Tell me you didn't order me to do the things I did." With that he made it clear that the cover up being attempted by the Bureau would not prevail.

[Sanguine]

It does make ya wonder which side the BATFE is on.