Drug lords targeted by Fast and Furious were FBI informants

[Cbreeze]

From the LA Times:

Drug lords targeted by Fast and Furious were FBI informants

The ATF had hoped he would lead them to two Mexican cartel members. But records show that after Celis-Acosta finally was arrested in February 2011, the ATF learned to its surprise that the two cartel members were secret FBI informants.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) are investigating Fast and Furious, which allowed illegal gun purchases in Arizona in hopes of tracking the weapons to Mexican drug cartel leaders. In a confidential memo to Republican committee members, Issa and Grassley said the ATF should have known the cartel members were informants and immediately shut down Fast and Furious.

"This means the entire goal of Fast and Furious — to target these two individuals and bring them to justice — was a failure," they wrote. The "lack of follow-through" by the various agencies, they said, typified "the serious management failures that occurred throughout all levels during Fast and Furious."

 

[Tungsten]

our government has reached a level of ineptness that i didnt think was possible

 

[WeaponsCollector]

The FBI, ATF, DEA, DOJ, ETC., ETC. must not communicate very effectively.
It's to be expected with such harmful policies in place.

 

[EL1227]

Shades of Whitey Bolger ?

What the hell were they doing, following the script of "The Departed" with Spanish subtitles ?

Nobody can be THAT stupid unless it was with assistance from Holder himself. Afterall, the FBI and ATF BOTH reported into the weasel, and do you think THIS might have something to do with it ?

It's Official: The ATF and FBI Don't Get Along

Holder knew that he could play one against the other and pushed ATF with F&F knowing full well that eventually they would trip over the FBI's 'dicks' and make the southwest border explode ... but then Brian Terry 'happened' and the SreallyHTF.

 

[jac43k]

our government has reached a level of ineptness that I didnt think was possible

this

 

[Crab Bait]

our government has reached a level of ineptness that i didnt think was possible

Oh, ye of little faith.

 

[smokey]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationw...rious-20120322,0,3334424.story?track=lat-pick

ATF and DEA agents learned by chance that they were separately investigating the same man in the Arizona and Mexico border region.

wow, by chance huh? hehe, they'd almost have to be trying to screw up that bad...ly......whooaaaa

 

[mikec]

our government has reached a level of ineptness that i didnt think was possible

How old were you when Carter was president?

 

[mr phil]

And not a G. D. thing will come of it. Unbelievable

 

[PJDiesel]

Uh huh..... Very, The Departed'esk

 

[Gaius Baltar]

i saw this movie, and jack did an excellent job, but i didn't see the foreign film remake..

 

[Nubz]

As the shit pile gets deaper and deaper

I'm speechless over this one lol

 

[ezliving]

Only the police, military and FBI informants should have guns.

 

[Brychan]

Sounds like last seasons Sons of Anarchy

 

[Tungsten]

How old were you when Carter was president?

I was born in 74. The first potus I remember is Reagan. I didn't wake up and see behind the curtain until the past yr. How in the hell did we get to this point?

 

[Huckleberry]

DHS is probably involved too since their Post 9/11 mission is to help coordinate and act as a clearing house for intelligence for all the Federal LEAs.

Of course, they couldn't warn their own people that the investigation was ongoing or upgrade their operational threat level so Brian Terry could have had a better fighting chance.

 

[ALBY]

Sounds like last seasons Sons of Anarchy

kinda what i was thinking.

this is UFB

 

[Rattlesnake46319]

DHS is probably involved too since their Post 9/11 mission is to help coordinate and act as a clearing house for intelligence for all the Federal LEAs.

Of course, they couldn't warn their own people that the investigation was ongoing or upgrade their operational threat level so Brian Terry could have had a better fighting chance.

That would require DHS to actually coordinate intelligence. They're not exactly taken seriously in the IC. And by "not exactly taken seriously", I mean "a kindergarten class has more credibility".

 

[gmhowell]

our government has reached a level of ineptness that i didnt think was possible

And yet we'll still hear story after story of government run conspiracies with a level of operational efficiency unheard of in human history.

 

[gmhowell]

i saw this movie, and jack did an excellent job, but i didn't see the foreign film remake..

Internal Affairs came out first.