It's Almost Like a Game Plan or Something...

I was looking for something else entirely, and as is so often the case, ran across something of relevance I did not recpgnize at the time. That would be this post from years before Mike and I had ever heard of Fast and Furious and of the Phoenix SAC at its center.

That links to this report, highlights of which include:

U.S. Guns Arming Mexican Drug Gangs; Second Amendment to Blame? ... "It's a war going on in Mexico, and these types of firearms are the weapons of war for them," said Bill Newell ... "It's virtually impossible to buy a firearm in Mexico as a private citizen, so this country is where they come," said Newell ... But U.S. efforts to stop the smuggling of tens of thousands of guns to Mexico, including high-powered assault weapons, have been hampered by lenient American gun laws ... Mexico's strict gun laws are being subverted by the easy availability of weapons in the U.S... U.S. and Mexican officials say they have traced most of the thousands of high-powered weapons seized from the drug cartels to gun dealers in Texas, California and Arizona ... Under federal gun laws, gun dealers are not required to report multiple purchases of such weapons because they are classified as rifles ... "If you were to go into a gun store and buy 20 of these, there is no requirement by the gun dealer to fill out a multiple sales form," ,,, The drug cartels' weapons of choice include variants of the AK-47 ... Assault weapons made in China and Eastern Europe, resembling the AK-47...

Does it seem to you like he had a specific direction he wanted to focus his division's efforts toward?

I wonder if anyone at House Oversight saw this back in the day. If they didn't, I wonder if they'd care to compare it with what they know now.