LATER: Courtesy of David Codrea, the pdf link is here.
July 12, 2011
The Honorable John Morton
Director
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
500 12th Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20536
Dear Director Morton:
We are concerned about recent reports that suggest similarities between “Operation Castaway,” a firearms trafficking investigation led by the Tampa Field Offices of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and “Operation Fast and Furious,” an ATF program that provided firearms to Mexican drug trafficking organizations. Specifically, reports indicate that firearms under “Operation Castaway” may have been provided to dangerous criminal gangs in Honduras, including MS-13.
If true, these reports raise serious questions about the leadership of the ICE and ATF Tampa Field Offices. We support ICE’s efforts to disrupt criminal syndicates that traffic in firearms, drugs, and other illicit substances. However, when those efforts serve to fuel the operations of criminal enterprises through the provision of firearms, they must be stopped and those responsible must be held accountable. In an effort to address this issue, we would appreciate your response to the following questions.1. What role did ICE agents and leadership play in “Operation Castaway?”
2. Can you confirm whether “Operation Castaway” included a gun walking scheme that allowed weapons to be trafficked to Honduras? If so, have any of these firearms ended up in the possession of the notorious MS-13 gang?
3. How many guns have been allowed to pass into Honduras and how many have since been accounted for?
4. Were these weapons subject to any special monitoring processes once they left the United States?
5. Is “Operation Castaway” still ongoing? If so, are you, in coordination with the ATF, planning to terminate the program?
We find it extremely troubling that the United States government would willfully allow weapons to be acquired by dangerous criminal and drug trafficking organizations, in direct contravention of our strategic and national interests. We look forward to receiving your responses to these questions in a timely manner.
Sincerely,
Gus Bilirakis, U.S. Representative, Florida, 9th District
Michael McCaul, U.S. Representative, Texas, 10th District
Candice Miller, U.S. Representative, Michigan, 10th District
4 comments:
I would love to see John Morten prosecuted with all the other traitors in this case. Last year ICE employees (through their union) voted "no confidence" in Morton and exposed some of his filthy actions. You can read what the people who work for this man think of him here:
http://www.iceunion.org/download/259-259-vote-no-confidence.pdf
I have a friend who met Morton and said he's an arrogant jerk, full of disdain for honorable law enforcement officers. Exactly what you'd expect.
Maybe this is a good start - but - it seems a letter very easy to duck. It does not ask for specifics and does not give a due date. I hope this is just a prelude to a strong stance, and just another Republican weak showing.
I don't know. If I had been the fox distributing firearms to MS-13 and such, I have a strong suspicion I'd not have received such politely written "requests" from my sheriff, .gov or anyone else in authority for my word on my double-dog honor as to how many hens were in the coop I was presently staking out.
And not a peep from any of those involved yet for us, the lowly class. They've gotten away with murder (now literally) by playing the three monkeys on a riot of issues, and I've just about had a gut full of it. Like some eight year old spoiled brat running around the room "na na na"ing you until you want to smack his ass into the back yard.
I much appreciate all the effort at breaking this, and keeping us updated. We're dying of thirst, if you know what I mean.
Roll the heads.
Pox on the whole lot of them.
III
Must not have got the memo...those codifications are only for us little ones who tend to forget to breath without a helping hand from our great nanny.
From all evidence, rules don't apply to those sitting in mahogany chairs in a semi-circle, their cronies, nor those sitting at desks shipped over from England.
Well, until they piss someone off higher up the food chain, that is.
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