Gunrunner

DOJ's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is increasing its efforts by adding 37 new employees in three new offices, using $10 million in Recovery Act funds, and redeploying 100 personnel to the Southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify its Project Gunrunner, which is aimed at disrupting arms trafficking between the United States and Mexico.

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Privately, law enforcement officials say the agency expects to preserve Gunrunner and face a smaller overall cut in the president's final budget proposal, in part because of the recent shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords D., Ariz. in Tucson.

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Sen. Charles E. Grassley R-Iowa, a member of the Judiciary Committee, wrote to ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson on Friday that he had "serious concerns that the ATF may have become careless, if not negligent, in implementing the Gunrunner strategy."

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The Fast and Furious case was one of the biggest gun trafficking cases since Project Gunrunner began in 2006.

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Grassley said he had information that the AK-47s recovered at the shooting scene were traced to Project Gunrunner, an ATF program designed to stem the illegal flow of U.S. guns to Mexico.

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ATF officials therefore spent weeks deliberating whether to scale back Operation Gunrunner, part of the Obama administration's effort to attack Mexican drug cartels by cracking down on gunrunning along the southwest border.

Budget Cutting Starts at Justice Department Devlin Barrett 2011

His agency has set up a task force, called Project Gunrunner, to curtail the exchange of arms and narcotics across the border.

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Tom Mangan, an ATF spokesman in Phoenix, said he was "not aware of any internal investigation that's going on regarding Project Gunrunner."

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Fast and Furious was part of a larger ATF campaign, Project Gunrunner, launched in 2006 to combat the weapons trafficking.

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Bill Newell, ATF special agent in charge for Arizona, said the five separate cases, all part of Project Gunrunner, demonstrate the corruptive reach of Mexican cartels using straw buyers to acquire guns in Arizona for illegal shipment south.

Sen. Chuck Grassley: Guns in ATF sting tied to agent's death 2011