| Fast and Furious Weapons Strike Again |
| Aug-08-2012 |
| Keywords: obama, romney, ad, uncaring, scrutiny |
Weapons from Operation Fast and Furious was used by drug cartel members in a failed attempt to murder a Mexican law enforcement official.
Those are the finds of two separate reports by Breitbart News' Mary Chastain and the El Paso Times.
The gun - which "was seized in Tijuana in connection with a drug cartel's conspiracy to kill the police chief of Tijuana, Baja California, who later became the Juárez police chief" - is tied to Fast and Furious.
"The firearm was found Feb. 25, 2010, during an arrest of a criminal cell associated with Teodoro 'El Teo' García Simental and Raydel 'El Muletas' López Uriarte, allies of the Sinaloa cartel," Diana Washington Valdez wrote for the El Paso Times. "Tijuana police said they arrested four suspects in March 2010 in connection with a failed attempt to take out Julián Leyzaola, and that the suspects allegedly confessed to conspiring to assassinate the police chief."
Leyzaola has since moved to Ciudad Juarez, a town right across the border from El Paso, Texas, to become the police chief there.
This new information comes on the heels of the congressional report blaming five ATF employs for their role in the botched gun-running operation. Prior to the release of that report, the House found Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to release documents subpoenaed by House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa.
Mario Gonzalez, the brother of then-Mexican prosecutor Patricia Gonzalez, was also killed with Fast and Furious weapons in early November 2010.
House Republicans are gearing up their lawsuit against President Barack Obama's assertion of executive privilege to withhold Fast and Furious documents from Congress and the American people.
Issa recently said he's "100 percent" confident a federal judge will force Obama to cough up the documents. |
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