The House Oversight Committee investigating the "Fast and Furious" and Project Gunrunner escapades of the ATF will be streaming those hearings live on the Internet at:
http://oversight.house.gov/
http://oversight.house.gov/
Did anything come of the hearing?
Yes, there has been a lot of "U.S. guns in Mexico" stories lately. I can only guess that the ATF is pushing that story as hard as it can to draw attention away from the Gunrunner hearings, though how you can talk about guns in Mexico and ignore the massive scandal related to it baffles me. I think that may end up backfiring on ATF.
Same here. I heard this parroted yesterday, that because all the weapons were entering Mexico from the US, then they should be illegal here too. No mention of the mighty patriotic justice league heroes that facilitating it though.I still have not really heard anything in the media about this "scandal", since the first few stories, all those months ago. Admittedly, I'm not sniffing around for this story, just going about life as I always have. I did hear today that, a Dem congress critter is demanding the reimplementation of the AWB because all the guns in Mexico's drug cartel problem come from Texas... as it was reported. Not a mention of Gunrunner though.
Originally Posted by CoRoMo
I still have not really heard anything in the media about this "scandal"
Why do I get the feeling that, if our current DC powers were to "overhaul" the ATF, the bureau would still come out the other end with a much larger budget to boot? Sure, they might get a straight and narrow, hard line, new set of rules to follow, but hey, they'll need to double their budget in order to implement this new policy, right?...laid the groundwork for an overhaul of the embattled agency.