Weapons Traffic: A Drug-War Plan Goes Awry

Mary O'Grady of the Wall Street Journal looks at "Fast and Furious," the AFT "gun walking" project.

O'Grady: A Drug-War Plan Goes Awry - WSJ.com: "One of the frightening things about the U.S. government's war on drugs is that it is being waged by federal bureaucracies. The legend of Elliot Ness notwithstanding, this implies that it is not only fraught with ineptitude but that before it is all over, there are going to be a lot of avoidable deaths.

Witness 'Operation Fast and Furious,' a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms plan that allegedly facilitated the flow of high-powered weapons into Mexico in the hope that it might lead to the take-down of a major cartel. It did not. But it may have fueled a spike in the murder rate and led to the death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry."