== Sorry, but this is a rubbish article on yet another grossly politicized "controvery" == 

 "Fast and Furious" was just one of many complex, involved ATF operations to stem cartel-connected gun-running across the Mexican border. In this case, weapons were "seeded" to better help ATF agents to see where they ended up. Some of the seeded guns allegedly ended up being used in murders, and the ATF didn't as good a job as they hope in tracing those seeded guns. End of story. However, Republicans and right wing blogs and news-like outlets, Fox News, in particular, have been doing their darnedest to politicize this into basically an alternate reality. What has been completely missing, either through deliberate duplicity or irresponsible laziness, is anything resembling a full picture of what was really going on order to put all these charges by Republicans and whatnot into perspective. Which includes this Wikipedia article  the "Background" section a joke, with no real background into the overall ATF operation at all, as well as cherry-picked references featuring an inordinate ones linking to Fox News, at best a pseudo-news source.  

 And what, pray tell, would constitute real background info, you might defensively ask? Well, maybe something like this leaked "sensitive" summary and PDF file might not make for the worst start. And that's all I'm going to say about this rubbish (so far) Wikipedia article.  aka CallMeBC