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Jose de la Isla

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My wife and I happened to be traveling this past week and had occasion to travel multiple times from Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX) thru Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson (ATL) airports to Orlando FL. Wow. What a stark difference. Maybe it’s not a fair comparison, I don’t know; but, the difference in quality from top-bottom, ceiling-floor, processes, finishes, services provided, retailers etc was striking. Phoenix is supposedly the #5 or 6 largest city (depending upon who you ask) in the U.S, while Atlanta is a little bigger than Mesa, not even in the U.S. top 25. Just as striking to me, while in ATL, I happened to be reading a copy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (don’t know if right- or left-leaning, but a GOOD paper) and I read an AP piece about “Bush-era probe involved ‘walking’ guns”. Apparently, this whole “Fast and Furious” (BATFE) scandal actually happened first back in 2006 under the Bush administration, as “Operation Wide receiver.” Never read about that in the Republic or saw that on Channel 12! John and Patti Latson

A new sentencing date has been set for a man who admitted working as a straw buyer for a gun smuggling ring that was monitored in the government's botched investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious.

New sentencing dates have been set for three people who admitted participating in a gun smuggling ring that was monitored in the botched federal investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House oversight committee said Sunday that he could send subpoenas to the Obama administration as soon as this week over weapons lost amid the Mexican drug war.

The scope of gun walking U.S. weapons into organized crime hands in Mexico was either a lethally mis-coordinated policy that spun out of control, some kind of covert operation or official malfeasance.

Bill Richardson

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal judge has reset the trial date for a Mexican man charged with killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday acknowledged serious mistakes in an arms trafficking probe that allowed AK-47s and other weapons to leak into the black market, but he insisted the Justice Department was taking steps to ensure that never happens again.

WASHINGTON – Arizona-area supervisors for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives acknowledged in a sometimes emotional five-hour congressional hearing Tuesday that “we made mistakes” in Operation Fast and Furious.

Ten Arizona sheriffs slammed the Obama administration on Friday over a botched federal operation that that lost track of up to 1,400 weapons sold to suspected straw purchasers for Mexican drug gangs.

WASHINGTON – Arizona-area supervisors for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives acknowledged in a sometimes emotional five-hour congressional hearing Tuesday that “we made mistakes” in Operation Fast and Furious.

WASHINGTON – Arizona-area supervisors for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives acknowledged in a sometimes emotional five-hour congressional hearing Tuesday that “we made mistakes” in Operation Fast and Furious.