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New York Post --
Furiously unraveling
The joke goes that anything named "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms" ought to
be a convenience store instead of an arm of the federal government, but
what's going on in Washington these days with the embattled agency is no
laughing matter.
Hardly a week passes now without some revelation about the Obama
administration's complicity in what may yet turn out to be one of the worst
and most lethal scandals in American history: Operation Fast and Furious.
In a classic Friday document dump -- a sure sign of an administration with
something to hide -- the feds released to congressional investigators a
month's worth of e-mail correspondence in the summer of 2010 between Bill
Newell, then head ATF agent in Phoenix, and his friend Kevin O'Reilly, a
former White House national-security staffer for North American affairs.
What do you know? Among the e-mails was a photograph of a powerful Barrett
.50-caliber rifle that had been illegally purchased in Tucson and recovered
in Sonora, Mexico, raising the possibility of a second "gunwalking" program,
this one called "Wide Receiver."
Like Fast and Furious, the ATF-supervised scheme that saw thousands of
weapons "walk" across the Mexican border for reasons no one in the Justice
Department has yet satisfactorily explained, Wide Receiver was apparently a
joint operation that also included the Drug Enforcement Administration, the
FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the IRS and the US Attorney's
office.
It's likely there have been others, in such states as Florida and Indiana.
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