@SharylAttkisson Could it be that Fast & Furious is continuing?
— Sandy Smartass (@SandySmartass) October 17, 2013
@SandySmartass it was related to the same offices that did F&F and a number of other gunwalking-like cases
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) October 17, 2013
Is there room in the Obama administration for one more scandal? CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson is following the death of three Mexican police officers killed in a shootout with a drug cartel last week, apparently with grenades walked across the border from the United States.
New scandal involving ATF – grenade used to kill police in Mexico. Did agents allow it to be smuggled over border? @SharylAttkisson reports
— Norah O'Donnell (@NorahODonnell) October 17, 2013
Attkisson says that it’s not quite Fast and Furious, although the same Arizona ATF office and attorney that oversaw that scandal hatched a plan to let Jean Baptiste Kingery smuggle weapons parts into Mexico, with the idea of tracking him to his factory. The ATF reportedly lost track of Kingery, finding him in 2010 but not having a good enough case to arrest him.
Says Attkisson, Kingery was “allowed to operate for years without arresting despite significant evidence that he was moving massive amounts of grenade parts and ammunition to Mexico’s ruthless drug cartels.” The Mexican police finally raided his factory in 2011 and accused Kingery of teaching his clients how to build their own grenades and also convert semi-automatic weapons to full-auto.
CBS Exclusive VIDEO: US Grenade walking case involved in murders of 3 Mexican police last wk. http://t.co/hkUKi3v7ox via @CBSNews
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) October 17, 2013
#Forward RT @bradcundiff: Good news: We've stop gun walking Bad News: Now we're walking grenades http://t.co/IqOWgexdAX cc: @SharylAttkisson
— Michele Frost (@michelelfrost) October 17, 2013
Attkisson’s complete report can be read here.
