A chilling message from the cartels

A chilling message from the cartels: Billboards with hanging mannequins warning cops to choose 'silver over lead' appear in Texas 

• Two billboards along highways in El Paso, Texas were vandalized and had mannequins hanging off of them
• One reads 'silver or lead' in Spanish which is taken to mean that police and business owners can either take drug cartels' bribes or die
• Worries spreading that cartels that have ruled Mexican border towns with violence may be headed north

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CB: ATF Promotes 3 Managers Who Oversaw ‘Operation Fast and Furious’

CONSERVATIVE BYTE - Three ATF officials who held direct supervisory roles involved in the controversial “Operation Fast and Furious” gun trafficking program have been promoted and moved to ATF headquarters in Washington DC, according to the LA Times. ✧ Two of the three ATF agents in question have admitted to mistakes they made in their managerial roles in the botched border gun trafficking operation that let approximately 2,000 weapons be sold to straw buyers. Those weapons were then allegedly allowed to cross the border despite initial law enforcement surveillance, and many of them ended up in the hands of ultra-violent Mexican drug cartels.

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Justice Officials in 'Panic Mode' over pending hearings

FOXNEWS.COM, 6/10/2011 by William La Jeunesse - Officials at the Department of Justice are in "panic mode," according to multiple sources, as word spreads that congressional testimony next week will paint a bleak and humiliating picture of Operation Fast and Furious, the botched undercover operation that left a trail of blood from Mexico to Washington, D.C. Read more at Fox...

The public refers to the debacle as 'Operation Gunrunner.' --bc Read More......