Sex and Politics

Looks like the government watched too many of Vin Disel’s Fast and Furious movies. The Fast and Furious scandal has been brewing for over a year and recently claimed its first victim casualty in Kenneth Melson, the interim director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tabaco and Firearm, who was reassigned over the gun trafficking operation. A second victim casualty was the the US Attonery of Phoenix who stepped down since this was/is a Phoenix based scandal.

Now, some of you may be asking what is the Fast and Furious scandal. Well…Operation Fast and Furious was a gun running undercover bust being overseen by the federal government. The operation was designed to identify illegal gun runners by funneling firearms to them so they could be tracked as they were sold. However, the operation was seriously botched. Several thousand guns ended up in the hands of Mexican cartels and have been found at the scene of the shooting deaths of at least two U.S. border agents AND vast sums of federal money were used to accomplish this massive screw up. (courtesy of Ology)

Needless to say the Obama Admin doesn’t want the shit to hit the fan with this little federal operation any more than it already has. There’s speculation that Attorney General Eric Holder’s head may be next on the chopping block, though I doubt it since he knows where all of the bodies are buried. The only was he goes down is if their is a taint that could possibly lead to the President and then he may be offered up as the sacrificial lamb similar to Oliver North, Ronnie Reagan and the Iran Contra affair.

But we’re not there yet. Not yet anyway. However with the election season really getting underway, this scandal story probably has a lot more legs than any arachnid on the planet.