The Los Angeles Times reports:

Reporting from Washington — High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF’s Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in the Mexican drug wars.

In all, 100 assault weapons acquired under Fast and Furious were transported 350 miles from Phoenix to El Paso, making that West Texas city a central hub for gun traffickers. Forty of the weapons made it across the border and into the arsenal of Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, a feared cartel leader in Ciudad Juarez, according to federal court records and trace documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives…

“These Fast and Furious guns were going to Sinaloans, and they are killing everyone down there,” said one knowledgeable U.S. government source, who asked for anonymity because of the ongoing investigations. “But that’s only how many we know came through Texas. Hundreds more had to get through.”

All courtesy of the Obama Justice Department under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder, which was trying to justify more expansive domestic gun control by stimulating the number of murders committed with guns originating in the United States.

Intelligence officials consider the Sinaloans the most “powerful drug trafficking organization in the world”, and yet the Obama Justice Department was knowingly and intentionally funneling weapons to their people. All, by the way, without notifying Mexican authorities, who learned of the operation only through media reports.

Someone high-ranking needs to resign and multiple someones need to serve prison time. This is inexcusable. We’re not talking about the CIA overthrowing an enemy government. That could be justified in the national interest. No, we’re talking about the Justice Department smuggling weapons to drug cartels so they could justify more gun control. The result is a bunch of dead Mexican citizens and a few dead Americans, too.

Via Hot Air Headlines.