| Adinnieken said: Fast and Furious was a program begun in 2006. Obama was elected in 2008, in office in 2009. |
Wrong. That was Operation Wide Receiver. And as far as I know, there were no deaths attributed to those guns (I'm sure there would have been a huge scandal that the news media would have actually reported if there had been), since they were seized when the straw buyers sold their guns to the cartel. In Fast and Furious (which started in 2009), the guns were allowed to be handed off to the cartel without ever seizing them, supposedly to catch those "higher up" in the cartel. So far they have been found at ~170 crime scenes and it has been estimated that they are responsible for over 200 deaths, possibly including 2 (definitely 1, while the other is still under investigation) border patrol agents. Only 665 have been obtained, which leaves 1,355 unaccounted for.
@ OP
Doubt it. But this is definitely going to have a negative affect on his chances at reelection. Chances that were already starting to look grim.
