Second ATF Agent Claims U.S. Funnelling Guns Into Mexico

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has allegedly allowed thousands of guns to fall into the hands of drug gangs.

Most observers would say that the last thing the Mexican drug trade needs is more guns, but apparently someone in the ATF thought otherwise. A second active ATF agent has gone on record saying that his agency encouraged U.S. gunrunners to sell weapons to Mexican drug dealers in the hopes that tracking the guns would help take down cartels. Not only does the ATF appear to have acted directly counter to its mandate of stopping gun trafficking, it also appears to have been acting in concert with the Deparment of Homeland Security and the Justice Department. More than 30,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon began a crackdown on organized crime in 2006.