What led to 'Project Gunwalker'?

[Valin]

AP:

PAULINE ARRILLAGA
7/29/11

PHOENIX (AP) — Ten days before Christmas, ATF agent John Dodson awoke, got his morning coffee, switched on the TV news — and heard the words he had dreaded every day of every month he had been a member of the gun-trafficking investigative team called the Group VII Strike Force.

A Border Patrol agent had been shot dead in a gun battle with suspected bandits. The agent was 40, only months older than Dodson himself, another ex-military man who chose to serve his country by working for the U.S. government.


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Seven months later, Fast and Furious has fast become a political thorn for the Obama administration, prompting calls for the resignation of ATF's acting director, stirring the debate over gun control and straining relations with Mexican officials. Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General to look into what happened, and Obama has vowed to take "appropriate actions."

Meanwhile, a parade of ATF agents have come forward, offering astonishing testimony in condemnation of their own employer over a probe they now call embarrassing, shameful, dumbfounding. They include some of the Group VII agents, including Dodson, Casa and Alt, but also another Phoenix-based supervisor, an ATF intelligence specialist and three Mexico-based agents.

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I guess that what will be done depends on the meaning of the word appropriate means.

H/T Power Line

[pollyannaish]

Wow. It wasn't mistakes that did this. It was sheer unadulterated arrogance by the Obama administration. They are the type to believe things are done in a certain way because everyone else who does it the old way is too stupid to see that THEIR way is the brilliant way. Arrogance disrespects experience at it's own peril.

[Valin]

Wow. It wasn't mistakes that did this. It was sheer unadulterated arrogance by the Obama administration. They are the type to believe things are done in a certain way because everyone else who does it the old way is too stupid to see that THEIR way is the brilliant way. Arrogance disrespects experience at it's own peril.

 

No one told them about the 7 P's "Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance."

 

As I understand it, once those weapons crossed the border there was no way to track them.