Контрабанда оружия в Мексику.
Jun. 19th, 2011 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reytsmanПо новостям одно время каждый день кричали, что мексиканские картели вооружаются американским оружием и это надо срочно прекратить путём запрета продажи оружия американским частникам. Заявление казалось очевидной глупостью, нарко-картели на разборки ходили в основном с автоматами, гранатами, минами и т.д., то есть тем что частникам в штатах не продаётся. Точнее продаётся, но после получения спец лицензии не во всех штатах, и по цене в десятки раз выше рыночной.
Однако частично эти заявления оказались правдой. Нарко-картелям поставляли таки кое какое оружие из США... этим занималось агентство по борьбе с нелегальным оборотом оружия... Вскрылось это дело как обычно, после того как агенты не выдержали и настучали что начальство переходит грань от откровенных провокаций к натуральным поставкам.
The congressional hearings held this week by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform revealed that the gun smuggling investigation known as “Fast and Furious” that was implemented out of the Phoenix Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) office was conducted in a reckless manner that led to the illegal sale of thousands of firearms. Many of those firearms ended up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels and other criminals, and may have contributed to the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
Some of the most important findings of the hearing and the investigative report compiled by the Committee staff include:
* BATFE knowingly allowed as many as 2,500 firearms to be sold illegally to known or suspected straw purchasers. One of those purchasers accounted for over 700 illegal guns.
* BATFE ordered its agents working the program not to arrest illegal gun buyers or to interdict thousands of guns that were allowed to “walk” into criminal hands.
* Senior BATFE officials in Washington were regularly briefed on the operation and approved of the tactics employed.
* BATFE agents who opposed the operation and who raised objections were told to “get with the program” and threatened with job retaliation if they continued their opposition.
A number of BATFE agents who were assigned to “Fast and Furious” testified about the operation.
Однако частично эти заявления оказались правдой. Нарко-картелям поставляли таки кое какое оружие из США... этим занималось агентство по борьбе с нелегальным оборотом оружия... Вскрылось это дело как обычно, после того как агенты не выдержали и настучали что начальство переходит грань от откровенных провокаций к натуральным поставкам.
The congressional hearings held this week by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform revealed that the gun smuggling investigation known as “Fast and Furious” that was implemented out of the Phoenix Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) office was conducted in a reckless manner that led to the illegal sale of thousands of firearms. Many of those firearms ended up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels and other criminals, and may have contributed to the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
Some of the most important findings of the hearing and the investigative report compiled by the Committee staff include:
* BATFE knowingly allowed as many as 2,500 firearms to be sold illegally to known or suspected straw purchasers. One of those purchasers accounted for over 700 illegal guns.
* BATFE ordered its agents working the program not to arrest illegal gun buyers or to interdict thousands of guns that were allowed to “walk” into criminal hands.
* Senior BATFE officials in Washington were regularly briefed on the operation and approved of the tactics employed.
* BATFE agents who opposed the operation and who raised objections were told to “get with the program” and threatened with job retaliation if they continued their opposition.
A number of BATFE agents who were assigned to “Fast and Furious” testified about the operation.
