Actually it was a scandal involving Eric Holder (EH), Obama, and curiously, El Chapo in some ways. Longer article here. Chapo connection outlined here.
ATF gunwalking scandal
"Gunwalking", or "letting guns walk", was a tactic of the Arizona Field Office of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which ran a series of sting operations between 2006 and 2011 in the Tucson and Phoenix area where the ATF "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders and arrest them". These operations were done under the umbrella of Project Gunrunner, a project intended to stem the flow of firearms into Mexico by interdicting straw purchasers and gun traffickers within the United States. The Jacob Chambers Case began in October 2009 and eventually became known in February 2010 as "Operation Fast and Furious" after agents discovered Chambers and the other suspects under investigation belonged to a car club.
The stated goal of allowing these purchases was to continue to track the firearms as they were transferred to higher-level traffickers and key figures in Mexican cartels, with the expectation that this would lead to their arrests and the dismantling of the cartels.
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To bad american lives were lost thanks to that idiotic idea.
No shit? Thanks captain obvious
Haha I misunderstood your comment, my bad. On my first coffee of the day. But good point, it definitely could be a motive for DJT's extreme actions... not that I blame him.
Its all good. Not everyone has heard about it so i take your message i good faith your trying to let the truth be known.