Posted by
Steve on Monday, August 08, 2011 9:26:20 AM
The brilliance that is our federal government never ceases to amaze me. I have talked about the incredibly stupid “Operation Fast and Furious” in previous posts. In that program, the government basically armed the Sinaloa drug cartel in an attempt to track those guns, without tracking them, to get the “big fish”. Now according to a newspaper in El Paso, the federal government has allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel to sell tons of cocaine and other product in the US in exchange for information on the other drug cartels.
I know that one drug cartel holds no loyalty to another drug cartel. That would be incentive enough for them to sell out their competition. Selling out the competition would enable you to get more of the action that is available. I am sure the Sinaloa drug cartel thought this program was great. They got to sell out their competition and get to sell tons of drugs unmolested. What could be better?
I am sure that this program was managed just as well as the program, Operation Fast and Furious. That is to say that if we got any information that was worth anything, it would be a miracle. We would have upheld our agreement to let them sell their drugs, so that transaction would have happened up front. The information would have come later and most likely have been outdated or bogus.
The people running our federal agencies right now do not seem to have any intelligence. Anyone with any kind of intelligence would have seen that Operation Fast and Furious would have been nearly impossible to implement successfully. To track that number of weapons is nearly impossible because people do not check the numbers on weapons very often. Operation Fast and Furious was doomed to failure from the start. That the people managing the program could not see it is astounding, unless that was their goal all along. There is a theory that the goal was to allow the guns to cross the border then claim that the problem is American gun laws. That was happening during Operation Fast and Furious, so that could have been the real goal, not the officially stated one that was doomed to failure from the start.
This operation with the Sinaloa drug cartel to allow them to sell drugs in the US in exchange for information is astounding. As a law enforcement agency, you do not allow more illegal activity in exchange for information. You may give them a break from prosecution, but never allow them to increase criminal activity. At least, that was understood in law enforcement when I was a Deputy Sheriff in the early 1970’s. Things could have changed, but I doubt that the policy of allowing illegal activity to increase because of an agreement was one of them.
This program originated during the Obama administration, just like Operation Fast and Furious. That means that the Obama administration is wholly responsible for the fallout from these two programs. Operation Fast and Furious seems to have been authorized at the highest levels of the Justice Department from testimony given to Congress. This drug program has just been revealed. We have no idea, at this time, who authorized the sale of drugs. My guess is that this would have been authorized at the highest levels of the Justice Department as well. You do not agree to let tons of drugs be sold on the streets by foreign drug cartels without approval from a very high level source. That would appear to be at least as high as Operation Fast and Furious. My guess is that it was authorized by at least Attorney General Eric Holder, just like I believe he was responsible for Operation Fast and Furious. But, Eric Holder does not act without authorization from above. That would appear to point the finger at Barack Obama. I believe the Eric Holder guess to be solid. The guess on Obama is tenuous at best and probably not provable.