ATF uses rogue tactics in storefront stings across the nation

Aaron Key wasn't sure he wanted a tattoo on his neck. Especially one of a giant squid smoking a joint.  But the guys running Squid's Smoke Shop in Portland, Ore., convinced him: It would be a perfect way to promote their store.  They would even pay him and a friend $150 apiece if they agreed to turn their bodies into walking billboards.  Key, who is mentally disabled, was swayed.  He and his friend, Marquis Glover, liked Squid's. It was their hangout. The 19-year-olds spent many afternoons there playing Xbox and chatting with the owner, "Squid," and the store clerks. So they took the money and got the ink etched on their necks, tentacles creeping down to their collarbones.  It would be months before the young men learned the whole thing was a setup. The guys running Squid's were actually undercover ATF agents conducting a sting to get guns away from criminals and drugs off the street.

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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......