about three ATF officials who held lead supervisory tasks involved with the controversial “Operation Fast and Furious” gun trafficking program have been promoted and transferred to ATF headquarters in Washington DC.Two among the 3 ATF agents in question have admitted to errors that they made in their roles during the botched border gun trafficking operation that let between 2,000 guns sold to straw buyers. Such weapons were then allegedly permitted to pass the border despite initial law enforcement surveillance, and many of them ended up in the possession of ultra-violent Mexican drug cartels.
The LA Times reported that the 3 ATF authorities in question are:
“William G. McMahon, who was the ATF’s deputy director of operations in the West, where the against the law trafficking program was focussed, and William D. Newell and David Voth, both field supervisors who governed the program out of the department’s Phoenix agency. McMahon and Newell have acknowledged making large errors in the program, which was called Operation Fast and Furious.”
In spite of documents that ATF supervisors may have violated policy and permitted weapons to “pass — indicating authorities gave up or even diminished surveillance on them- no major cartel characters have been prosecuted because of the situation.
The largest well-known result to of the “Fast and Furious” operation was the tragic murder of Border Agent Brian Terry. A gun associated with the operation fast and furious program was found around the stage of the crime.
The Obama White House has denied any knowing of gunrunning performance until it had become a scandal under the media. Attorney General Eric Holder has also denied past knowledge of operation before it broke in the media.
It's not crystal-clear if the White House performed any role in the logistics of 3 “Fast and Furious” ATF management. However given the timing of the strategies, it seems possible that the transfers to D.C. could be made to to draw media particular attention away from the situation and move the public chat past “Fast and Furious” without holding any senior part of united states government responsible.
However a few Congressmen are generally not letting it go away that easily. Rep. Darrell Issa of the House Panel on Oversight and Federal government Reform, has wanted answers from the White House around the botched operation for several weeks, and last week Senator John Cornyn sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder questioning the decision behind the “Fast and Furious” weapon trafficking operation and demanding a full brief on any past or present gun selling programs in his home state of Texas...