Fast and Furious: Time to Come Clean

Yesterday Newsday became the latest media organization to notice the astonishing "Operation Fast and Furious" scandal, which has evolved into both a serious of dangerous questions about the original operation, and growing awareness of a massive cover-up orchestrated far higher than the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms: Fast and Furious was designed to track guns that "straw buyers" purchased in Phoenix area shops in 2009. The goal was to trace the guns and make cases against traffickers supplying firepower to deadly drug cartels in Mexico. But agents quickly lost track of the weapons and many turned up at crime scenes, including the December shootout in Arizona where border agent Terry died. The operation was something of a departure for the ATF, which generally moves to take illegal guns off the street as quickly as possible. In this new gambit, however, ATF agents couldn 't follow the path of many of the 2,000 or so AK-47s, high-caliber rifles and other guns that were purchased in the United States and later used by criminals in Mexico. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif. ), The chairman of the House committee investigating the operation, said there 's reason to believe the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration already knew the gunrunning kingpins the ATF was working to identify, and may even have had some of … – Snip – As Heritage Foundation communications director Rory Cooper noted via Twitter this morning: "Media hasn't asked White House about Fast and Furious since JULY 5. Not in one briefing. I have questions, do you? "That was 77 days ago. The LA Times and CBS News are virtually alone in providing comprehensive mainstream-media coverage of the "Gun Walker" outrage. At what point does the remarkable media ignorance of this historic scandal become impossible to regard as anything less than willing co-operation in the cover-up? (Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com …