The ATF agent who blew the whistle on ATF’s outrageous and criminal “Project Gunrunner” scheme has been fired by that agency.

The agent, Vince Cefalu, who has spoken out about the ATF’s so-called “Project Gunrunner” scandal, says he was served with termination papers just last week, and he calls the move politically motivated.

This sure looks like retaliation to me.

(H/T Gateway Pundit)

Source: CBS
Congress grilled the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as well as the Department of Justice about the controversial gunwalking program that intentionally let guns into Mexico. Sharyl Attkisson reports.

This story will blow your mind. Frustrated ATF agents are coming forward to expose a stunning multi-year program they’ve been involved with. A couple of years ago the ATF decided to redouble their efforts at stopping the illegal flow of firearms to Mexico. They put hundreds of agents along the border to carry out investigations and make arrests. What they ended up doing is contributing to the mass murder in Mexico rather than stopping it.

ATF agents say their superiors forced them time and again to let firearm shipments “walk” so they could follow the guns and take down the cartel. Agents who had gunrunners under surveillance as they loaded their vehicles with hundreds of AK-47′s, pistols, and .50 caliber Barrett sniper rifles, were forced to stand down and allow the weapons to reach Mexico. It wasn’t long before those weapons began popping up at grizzly murder scenes and cartel killings. According to one agent, the rise in violence in Mexico directly correlates with weapons shipments they let “walk.”

Field agents angrily confronted superiors and warned of the agency having blood on its hands, but the critics were told to shut up or find a new line of work. The biggest fear that ATF agents had was that one of “their” weapons would be used to kill Americans.

That nightmare finally came true with the recent death of a US Border Patrol agent in Mexico. The DOJ has been strangely silent about the case and the family of the slain agent is outraged. ATF agents who’ve come forward say it was one of the AK-47′s they had to let pass that killed the agent. They have the serial numbers for all the weapons they let reach Mexico and it’s a match.

The tactic of letting a suspect “walk” in hopes of catching the big fish is nothing new. It’s frequently used in drug and money laundering cases. However, using that approach for weapons trafficking is unthinkable. Let someone walk with several kilos of cocaine is not the same as letting someone walk with 500 AK-47s. Those weapons went directly into the hands of drug cartel members and used explicitly for the purpose of mass murder. It wasn’t a question of if those guns would be used to kill, but when and how many would die.

Moreover, allowing criminals to take hundreds of .50 Barrett sniper rifles into Mexico is not just stupid, it’s insane. A single round from a Barrett can tear a man in half. It can take out a vehicle at more than a mile a way. Families of the dead in Mexico should sue the US government for aiding and abetting in the death of their loved ones.

Here’s some background on the Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle. ATF let hundreds of these at a time flow into Mexico.

Rapper T.I. (real name: Clifford Harris) was arrested in Atlanta Saturday afternoon by ATF agents on charges of buying illegal machine guns, just hours before he was scheduled to appear at the BET Awards show. Agents said the rapper was arrested as he accepted delivery of three machine guns and two silencers from a bodyguard. He is due in court Monday.

Shortly after his arrest a federal search warrant was executed on Harris’ home in College Park. While conducting the search of T.I.’s home agents allegedly discovered three rifles, two pistols and a revolver in a walk-in closet in Harris’ bedroom. Five of the six guns were loaded.

A total of 12 guns (and two silencers) were recovered during the arrest and subsequent searches.

The arrest was the result of an undercover operation by ATF agents that started on October 2, when agents learned an individual was seeking to buy machine guns without registering them.

That individual, an unnamed bodyguard for T.I., was arrested on Wednesday after purchasing three machine guns, two silencers and a pistol

After his arrest the buyer agreed to become a cooperating witness (Snitch) for the government following his revelation to arresting agents that he was purchasing the machine guns for his boss, Clifford Harris, who as a convicted felon is legally not permitted to own a firearm. The CW had been working as a bodyguard for T.I. for the past three months. As of now, T.I.’s attorney can’t reveal the bodyguard’s name.

“This convicted felon allegedly was trying to add several machine guns to an already large and entirely illegal arsenal of guns,” David E. Nahmias, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, said in a statement.

T.I. has since been informally charged with one federal felony count of possession of unregistered machine guns (and silencers) and two federal felony counts of possession of firearms by a convicted felon. He is currently being held in federal custody and will make his initial appearance in the United States Courthouse in Atlanta tomorrow (October 15th).