The last thing the Mexican Drug war needed was the ATF getting involved. In operation fast and furious, the US Justice Department sold weapons to he Mexican drug cartels. There have been many excuses made by the Obama regime but none made sense. The logical explaining was they wanted to fuel the Mexican drug war and use the pretense of US arms as a pretext for gun control.

Rep. Darrell Isaa (R-CA) is investigating this scandal. So far, ATF head Kenneth Melson has being thrown under the bus by the Obama regime. This is probably just the tip of the iceberg.

There’s a war along the Mexican border all right, but it’s not necessarily the one you’re thinking of. In fact, this one has spread all the way to the halls of Congress.

This week, the Obama administration is expected to fire Kenneth Melson, the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — tossing him under the bus as a symbolic gesture to a congressional committee headed by Rep. Daryl Issa (R-Calif.).

Issa’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating an insane ATF operation — a supposed sting that involved the deliberate funneling of thousands of weapons to ultra-violent Mexican drug cartels in 2009-10.

The op’s name, “Fast and Furious,” came from the series of movies about an undercover drag racer working for the FBI — which gives you some idea of the lack of seriousness behind this cockamamie scam.

The Justice Department, which oversees the ATF, says the idea was to allow the sale of handguns, AK-47s and .50 caliber rifles to so-called “straw purchasers,” who’d then pass them along to the cartels. In theory, ATF agents would then trace the extent of the smuggling networks in an effort to stop the illegal cross-border gun trade.