Michelle Malkin had written about it back in March, and Hot Air is also posting on it now
You’ll find complete PDF and text versions of the final stimulus bill right here. Scroll down to page 16 (of 407!) in the PDF version and behold:
For an additional amount for ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’, $40,000,000, for competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the Southern border, of which $10,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘‘Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses’’ for the ATF Project Gunrunner.
Bob Owens points out that (emphasis added)
Please Keep in mind that Gunrunner is a long-term cartel weapons interdiction program that kicked off during the previous administration. there is no indication that Gunrunner has ever been anything but above-board. The program/project framework has long been used in business and government, with the program being the general vision, with individual projects.
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Gunwalker/Fast and Furious was a specific secret operation or project within the much larger framework of Gunrunner. A list of all operations with the Gunrunner program is not publicly available, but I would be stunned if the total number of projects wasn’t several dozen, or more, with many or most of them being covert and unknown to the public.Gunwalker and Gunrunner are not the same thing even though they are related. We have enough evidence coming in—at a pace “fast and furious,” one might say—and do not need to make leaps of logic. There is no need to jump the gun or make wild accusations.
How much of Gunwalker, then, was financed by the stimulus?
Related:
Honduras? Why would ATF walk guns to Honduras?
Dozens of ‘Fast & Furious’ guns were confiscated from illegal aliens in Phoenix
