Whack-a-mole: U.S. struggles to stop flow of guns to Mexico

Once again, here is the discrepancy between the official myth about government success in its "whack-a-mole" drug war strategy and the reality.

U.S. struggles to stop flow of guns to Mexico: "IN MEXICO CITY Efforts to stem the smuggling of weapons from the United States to Mexican drug cartels have been frustrated by bureaucratic infighting, a lack of training and the delayed delivery of a computer program to Mexico, according to U.S. and Mexican officials.

'ATF's attempts to expand gun tracing in Mexico have been unsuccessful," concludes a report by the Inspector General of the Justice Department on its own agency's efforts. The draft report, subject to change before its release later this month, states that although information-sharing about guns has increased, "most trace requests from Mexico do not succeed in identifying the gun dealer who originally sold the gun.'" Oct. 7, 2010, Washington Post