source: http://nation.foxnews.com/botched-gun-operation/2011/07/27/fast-and-furious-scandal-reaches-white-house
The U.S. government operation turned out to place thousands of high power military quality guns and rifles in the hands of Mexican Cartels and various drug dealers. The goal was to track the guns. Instead the guns just disappeared from view and no tracking was possible. ATF and whomever else OK'd this operation were naive incompetent fools. These incompetent fools need to be fired.