Fast and Furious

    Fast and Furious emails

    The ATF’s field su­per­visor on the South­w­est bor­der sent a series of emails last year to a top White House na­tion­al se­cur­ity of­fi­cial de­tail­ing the agency’s am­bi­tious ef­forts to stop weapons traf­fick­ing in­to Mex­ico, but did not men­tion that a botched sting op­er­a­tion already had al­lowed hun­dreds of guns to flow to drug car­tels.

    — Richard A. Serrano
    Published: July 28, 2011
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