bearingarms.com By Cam Edwards
Retired ATF Assistant Director Peter Forcelli is back with me on today’s Bearing Arms Cam & Co with details on Sen. Chuck Grassley’s investigation into Operation Thor; a multi-agency effort to combat cartel weapons trafficking that was abruptly and inexplicably shut down by the Biden administration. We also get into last week’s fatal ATF raid on the home of a Little Rock airport executive who was under investigation for selling guns without a license and the family’s questions about whether the early morning raid was truly necessary.
As Forcelli explains it, Operation Thor was meant to stop weapons trafficking from the United States into Mexico, and by all accounts the effort was fairly successful. But for reasons the Biden administration has yet to explain, the program was suddenly halted in 2022. Forcelli says Grassley’s office reached out to him a few months ago asking him to debrief some of the staff who are digging into Operation Thor and get them up to speed on previous ATF ops like Fast & Furious as well as explaining how above-board trafficking interdiction efforts typically work.
“So I sat down with them some time ago and explained what happened back then,” Forcelli tells Bearing Arms.
“Now they obviously didn’t tell me everything that’s going on in their investigation, because that’s not how it works, but they seemed to be focused on why that program [Operation Thor] got defunded, how the cartels are securing weapons, which still involves a degree of straw purchasing here in the United States where folks are trafficking those straw-purchased weapons south, but obviously they’re still looking at other ways the cartels are acquiring weapons.”
According to Forcelli, the senator’s staff appears to be looking beyond just ATF in their investigation.
“In reading between the lines I got the impression that they were also looking at some of the decisions made by State Department, possibly as high up as the ambassador to Mexico. I know they have whistleblowers who have come forward. I do know who one of them is; he had a very important position in ATF outside of the United States, and there are some other agents who are talking to them who were involved in Operation Thor who thought it was inappropriate that the program got defunded because it was somewhat successful…
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