That blows apart White House claims that it had no idea the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was encouraging frontmen for Mexico’s cartels to buy weapons from U.S. gun dealers — to “trace” them afterward. – IBD

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Operation Gunwalker, the rogue ATF operation to arm Mexico’s cartels, extends now to three White House officials. A bell goes off with the one named Dan Restrepo.

Late last Friday, CBS News and the Los Angeles Times almost buried the news that Restrepo, the National Security Council’s top man for Latin America, and two other officials, were in on ATF memos from the Gunwalker operation called “Fast and Furious.”

There’s little doubt that’s his line, because blaming U.S. gun dealers and calling for a U.S. assault weapon ban were his ideas from his days spent at the Center for American Progress, an Obama-linked think tank.

The U.S. “will work to inhibit the flow of weapons … across our border,” Restrepo told Mexican media.

Meanwhile, when Obama met with Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon, both erroneously declared that U.S. weapons fueled Mexico’s drug war — on Restrepo’s advice.

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