U.S. Weapons Smuggling Program for Mexican Cartels Exposed Four Years Ago

Information about Fast and Furious was in Homeland Security's hands four years ago, it should have saved the lives of two U.S. federal agents.

Salem-News.com's Robert 'Tosh' Plumlee was a CIA asset for many years before becoming a news photographer and reporter.

(COLUMBUS, N.M.) - This memo represents the first time that the U.S. Border Patrol knew about guns going across the border at Columbus, New Mexico.

Needless to say, the 'Fast and Furious' gun walker program administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF&E), under U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, that led specifically to the shooting deaths of two U.S. federal agents with ATF guns, has brought mass public attention to the fact that the U.S. government is not above any level of behavior, and in fact is a contributor to the ever growing danger along the border.

However as the memo below indicates, the knowledge of this activity is nothing new and that is the forté and essence of our work at Salem-News.com; to prove that the knowledge of federal corruption and outright international criminality is already here.

Tosh explains in regard to the memo below, that a series of reports to Homeland Security were made on this and those reports were forwarded to the proper agencies. He posted this on a forum as a backup after mailing a detailed letter to the Department of Justice IG Sutton in 2007 and 2008.

William Plumlee

Reprint from November 2007:

An investigative reporter from from CBS recently asked me the following question:

Q "... Has there been a, 'spill over' of violence and crime from Mexico's Los Zetas cartel, as well as other internationally known drug cartels or their gangs, into the United States?"

A "In my opinion, yes... Washington's politicians and the current administration's DoJ and the State Department and their political appointees, in a strong united but scripted voice say, "No," while federal law enforcement agencies-- their field personal and operatives, on both sides of the border, scream, "Hell Yes!", and they have the stats to back it up.

However, politics, lobbyist, arms merchants, and international special interest, always seem to win favors and special secret concessions from various government personal and other unknown, 'international sources', in reference to the so called, "drug war" . Year after year, decade after decade, these secret unknown concessions are always at the expense of the American tax payer. These cartel wars and their high impact weapons obtained from programs like the US State Departments Direct Commercial Sales have become a cash cow for international arms merchants, as well as weapons manufactures here in the United States and elsewhere.

Someday soon our troops will face these weapons "face to face". Its only a matter of time before some of our troops, front line border patrol, and other law enforcement personal, come back from Mexico and the American border in body bags, while others are openly gun down in hostile fire fights on American streets. afire fights are occurring almost nightly along our southern border with Mexico. Only time will tell before one or two of our federal agents come home in body bags courtesy of Mexico's Sinaloa or Zeta cartel.

There is a major war developing in northern Mexico and along our southern border. It is only a matter of time before we Americans in our major cities, will be forced to face this threat and their weapons. Regardless, of what we believe in reference to this so called threat, the reality is; this drug cartel movie will soon be played out in hundreds of American cities as the Zeta and Sinaloa move their product onto our streets and into our cities.

The United States and Mexico's drug war has already destroyed thousands of lives and cost billions of dollars. Our elected officials are so out of touch with reality they can not comprehend the severity of the developing situation nor understand the complexity of how we got to this point.

Well today it appears there is no end in sight to the money spending, the weapons being smuggled, the drugs, the killings and the mass graves. If Mexico becomes a failed State, then the United States will be next in line..., and then the drug war will be over. ...

Tosh Plumlee ". Columbus New Mexico Nov. 25, 2007