mrstickball on 15 June 2011
| MrBubbles said: seems to me the project should have been to sell a small amount of weapons and then track the final destination of the guns and then bomb the shit out of it...this conspiracy charge doesnt even sound like it would have resulted in much jail time. |
Not only that, there is litterally no word that the program even so much as jailed one person.
The assumption was that there was this massive, secret network of distributing US arms to Mexican cartels. There wasn't. So now there are thousands of extra guns in Cartel hands that the US essentially gave them. The better thing would have been to simply interdict these straw purchasers and killed them, jailed them, or something of that matter - not spend years building a case while people died from these guns.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
