I highly doubt anyone on this forum knew Wide Receiver even existed before Fast & Furious made the headlines.
Add in the fact Wide Receiver never caused the deaths of federal law enforcement officers and was ended two years before the Obama administration took office, it looking like you are the partisanship hypocrite.
Wide Receiver was a smaller operations that if I am correct was a co-op with mexican government and using gps devices in the guns.
[h=3]Fate of F&F walked guns[/h] Since the end of Operation Fast and Furious, related firearms have continued to be discovered in criminal hands. As reported in September 2011, the Mexican government stated that an undisclosed number of guns found at about 170 crime scenes were linked to Fast and Furious.[SUP]
[37][/SUP] U.S. Representative
Darrell Issa (R–CA–49) estimated that more than 200 Mexicans were killed by guns linked to the operation.[SUP]
[38][/SUP] Reflecting on the operation, Attorney General
Eric Holder said that the
United States government is "...losing the battle to stop the flow of illegal guns to Mexico,"[SUP]
[39][/SUP] and that the effects of Operation Fast and Furious will most likely to continue to be felt for years, as more walked guns appear at Mexican crime scenes.[SUP]
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In April 2011, a large cache of weapons, 40 traced to Fast and Furious but also including military-grade weapons difficult to obtain legally in the US such as an anti-aircraft machine gun and grenade launcher, was found in the home of Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, a prominent
Sinaloa Cartel member, in
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Torres Marrufo was indicted, but evaded law enforcement for a brief time.[SUP]
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[42][/SUP] Finally, on February 4, 2012 Marrufo was arrested by the Mexican Police.[SUP]
[43][/SUP]
On May 29, 2011 four
Mexican Federal Police helicopters attacked a cartel compound, where they were met with heavy fire, including from a .50 caliber rifle. According to a report from the
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, this rifle is likely linked to Fast and Furious.[SUP]
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There have been questions raised over a possible connection between Fast and Furious and the death of
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent
Jaime Zapata on February 15, 2011.[SUP]
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[45][/SUP] The gun used to kill Zapata was purchased by Otilio Osorio in the
Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas[SUP]
[46][/SUP] (outside the area of responsibility for the ATF Phoenix field division[SUP]
[47][/SUP] which conducted Fast and Furious), and then smuggled into Mexico. Congressional investigators have stated that Osorio was known by the ATF to be a straw purchaser months before he purchased the gun used to kill Zapata, leading them to question ATF surveillance tactics[SUP]
[46][/SUP] and to suspect a Texas-based operation similar to Fast and Furious.[SUP]
[48][/SUP] In addition to Otilio Osorio, a Texas-based drug and gun trafficker, Manuel Barba, was involved trafficking another of the guns recovered in the Zapata shooting. The timeline of this case, called "Baytown Crew", shows guns were allowed to walk during surveillance that began June 7, 2010. On August 20, 2010 Barba received a rifle later recovered in the Zapata ambush and sent it with nine others to Mexico. The warrant for Barba's arrest was issued February 14, 2011, the day before Zapata was shot.[SUP]
[49][/SUP] On January 30, 2012, Barba, who claimed to be working with
Los Zetas in illegally exporting at least 44 weapons purchased through straw buyers, was sentenced to 100 months in prison.[SUP]
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