Fast And Furious Raises Its Head Again

One Item Just Discovered In ‘El Chapo’ Hideout Exposes Shocking Obama Connection

"The Fast and Furious program has been a political nightmare..."

Jack Davis January 20, 2016 at 9:38am

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When Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was on the run from authorities, one of the guns guarding his hideout was sold through the Obama administration’s failed “Fast and Furious” weapons program.

Officials have disclosed that a .50-caliber rifle designed to shoot down a helicopter was found inside the Mexican hideout in the Jan. 8 raid when the Sinaloa Cartel chief was captured. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) have revealed the serial number proved the rifle came from the U.S. government’s program.

The Fast and Furious “sting” involved federal agents allowing criminals to buy guns with the intention of tracking the weapons to learn who was supplying illegal weapons to Mexican drug gangs. The operation was a disaster. Although 34 indictments were filed in the program that ran from 2009-2011, ATF agents lost track of 1,400 of the 2,000 guns involved in the operation.

Officials said they are investigating how many of the weapons found at El Chapo’s hideout came from the U.S. and how they were obtained.

The Fast and Furious program has been a political nightmare for President Obama, who on Tuesday lost a round in a court dispute over documents relating to the program. Obama claimed he could use executive privilege to prevent Congress from seeing documents about the program. However, a judge ruled against him.

The program was first uncovered to the public when a border patrol agent was killed in 2012 using weapons sold through Fast and Furious. Congress sought documents about the failed project, but then-Attorney General Eric Holder refused to provide them. Holder was later found in contempt by Congress, but Obama continued to refuse to release the documents.