Fast and Furious Documents to Be Released

The Justice Department announced yesterday that it would finally release documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal. You can find the article at Red State under the title Breaking. Department of Justice Decides to Obey U. S. Constitution and Release Fast and Furious Documents to Congress. For those who may have forgotten, and for those just waking up from a long nap:

It was a secret secret ATF program, overseen heavily at the highest levels at the Department of Justice, which took place between September 2009 and December 2010. ATF agents repeatedly and knowingly allowed individuals working for Mexican cartels to traffic thousands of pistol and semi-automatic rifles, including at least one .50-cal Barrett that ended up in the personal armory of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The operation ended when Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered and the weapon was traced to this scheme. The purpose seems to have been to create a fact set–the extensive use of weapons bought in the United States by straw purchasers by Mexican cartels–as a way of stampeding Congress into enacting more restrictive gun laws.

It still remains to be seen how much of the documentation will be redacted, and whether any of it implicates the then Attorney General, Eric Holder, or President Obama himself. It also remains to be seen whether anyone will be held accountable, or because these were Democrats, they will be allowed to go without any consequences. Thanks to David Codrea at the /War on Guns website for pointing me to this story. The gun rights community owes David and the late Mike Vanderboegh a great debt for bringing the story of Fast and Furious to light. Thanks David.