ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Shades of Iran/Contra Scandal http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/07/atf-s-fast-and-furious-seems-colored-shades-irancontra-scandal

The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.In doing so, ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson has also left open the door to the house of mirrors that always comes into play when U.S. interests intersect with foreign affairs.

What the letter from Issa and Grassley is alleging, simply put, is that multiple U.S. agencies were employing as informants and assets members of Mexican drug organizations who were responsible for importing into their nation thousands of weapons from the U.S., leading to more than 40,000 homicides in Mexico’s drug war since late 2006.

The letter, by its wording, makes clear that the complicit U.S. agencies include FBI and DEA, but it also seems to make clear that “other agencies” might also be involved in the game. And also part of this game was ATF, which, via Fast and Furious, was allowing thousands of guns to be smuggled across the U.S. border into Mexico as part of a supposed plan to identify “higher-ups” in Mexican drug organizations who were responsible for the illegal weapons trade. And, as it turns out, those responsible, in some cases, were the very individuals being employed as informants and assets by other U.S. agencies.

[ALSO SEE...Captured Zeta Leader: We’ve Purchased Weapons from the 'U.S. Government Itself' http://deadlinelive.info/2011/07/06/deadline-live-exclusive-–-captured-zeta-leader-we’ve-purchased-weapons-from-the-“u-s-government-itself”/ House of Death Informant Files Lawsuit Against US Government http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/07/house-death-informant-files-lawsuit-against-us-government

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Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/04/mexican-narco-trafficker-s-revelation-exposes-drug-war-s-duplicity Sinaloa Drug Cartel Controlled and Protected by Both Mexican and U.S http://deadlinelive.info/2011/04/15/deadline-live-exclusive-sinaloa-drug-cartel-controlled-and-protected-by-both-mexican-and-u-s-governments/