The truth about Fast and Furious over and against Wide Receiver.

Jamie Zapata - Customs Control Agent

<<<<<<<<<<  The forgotten federal agent killed with a gun out of Fast and Furious.  

Wide Receiver was a Bush era gun tracking/running  program that failed.  275 guns were involved and the program was shut down in 2007.  There are no estimates as to the number of guns used by the Cartel coming from Wide Receiver,  but estimates I have hear are close to 50.  It was a bad idea,  under Bush,  and was a separate program from other "gun running" operations. While the DOJ decided to prosecuted this case because of its link to GW Bush,    it (Holder's DOJ)  went ahead and started its own unannounced,  gun-running program,  a program that might never have been known if not for the deaths of Jamie Zapata and Brian Terry,  two federal agents.  

Fast and Furious was begun in 2009;  its name approved by the Eric Holder.  It was the largest gun-running program in American history,  originally involving 2,200 long guns and pistols.   90% of these guns had no tracking devises implanted,  at all.  More than 700 of these guns have shown up at various Mexican crime scenes. The program was clandestine in nature,  and pursued by Holder, while he was prosecuting Justice under Bush for much the same thing.  

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Wide Receiver was a joint program involving both the American government and the Mexican government. 

Fast and Furious was never approved the Mexican government,  nor was that government aware of the American program.

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Wide Receiver guns were used,  no doubt,  in some of the Cartels murders,

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None of this compares to Fast and Furious and the 2,500 Mexican’s killed with guns coming from directly from Fast and Furious. 

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No border patrol or federal agents were killed or wounded by Wide Receiver guns.  

With Fast and Furious,  two American agents were murdered while on patrol.  One such agent,  Brian Terry,  was forced to carry “non-lethal” ammunition while on patrol.  Because of D o J policy  under Obama/Holder,  our agents were/are essentially unarmed,  unless,  of course , they are permitted to use their guns as clubs.  

Who knows what this bunch of “fair minded” moron in the Administration have in mind,  such is a policy, of sorts.  Our soldiers in the "green zone" in Afghanistan were no allowed to carry loaded weapons until three weeks ago, and the Marines at the Cairo embassy carried unloaded weapons,  according Marine blogs in that region.   

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Sources you can use to confirm this post:  

In The Blaze,  a story by Jason Howerton.  

Investor.com,  an editorial titled Fast and Furious Did Not Begin Under Bush. 

A Primer On Fast and Furious,  is a CBS expose' that links Fast and Furious to a number of similar programs.  There is much useful information in this article,  but it is written with a pro-Obama bias, in mind.  

TMP Muckracker has a comprehensive series of reports tying Wide Receiver to "the tactics" of Fast and Furious.  

Caution:  the trick in reading the CBS and TMP reports,  is to not get lost "in the weeds" of the report,  to fail to distinguish what is actually fact,  and what is glossed over as "fact."  Remember,  when you read,  that Wide Receiver was a program ended under Bush and supposedly prosecuted by Holder's DOJ.  If,  in fact,  Holder prosecuted the Wide Receiver case,  he cannot,  logically argue that his "Fast and Furious" was,  then,  an extension of the Bush program. 

Remember,  as you read,  you will find these 5 facts accepted by the Lefties:   1) Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious were two separate programs with specific start-up and ending dates, and 2) Wide Receiver was being prosecuted by Holder,  proving,  of course,  that the two programs were separate affairs;  3) Fast and Furious was all other gun-running efforts on steriods;  4) while we can trace F & F to similar programs in the  past,  it remains its own program with specific dates that make it different from all the other such programs;  5)  two federal agents were killed with these guns,  an exclusive for Fast and Furious.