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ATF’s dismal record in stopping gun
running
By Patrick Osio
John A. Torres, special agent in charge for
the Bureau of Alcohol program of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms (ATF)
Los Angeles headquarters, has niftily switched the failures of his office in stopping the
flow of gun smuggling into Mexico that are used by drug cartels. Torres went
well beyond his scope of authority inaccurately dramatizing the supposed danger
college students’ face traveling to their historical spring break haunts in Rosarito Beach and
Ensenada, Baja
California.
Agent Torres’ warning to avoid
travel to those places comes just at the right time for him to deflect the
utter failure for several years now of the various ATF’s offices, his included.
By drawing attention to the unproven and in fact untrue, concerns for the
safety of students in Baja, the spotlight that has just recently began to shine
on ATF’s record in their either feeble or incompetent work to prevent the
massive numbers of arms and ammunition flowing into Mexico from the US used by
drug cartels in their quest to defeat Mexican authorities and intimidate the
general population.
It is not coincidental that the
timing of Torres’ comments, which comments are not within the realm of his
office, follows Mexico’s President Calderon making public his concern that the US
must do more to stop the flow of smuggled arms into Mexico. His remarks are most obviously a payback for shinning the
light on AFT's failures.
Agent Torres is aware that
Americans, who are not involved in illicit drug buying, distributing or
smuggling, are not and have not been the targets and have not and are not in
danger while visiting any part of Mexico, including Rosarito Beach, Ensenada
and yes, even Tijuana. His pretended ignorance on the subject should be
replaced by his putting his nose to the grindstone and do his work through the
AFT’s Project Gunrunner initiative and reverse the dismal record in stopping
gun running.