David Codrea

• Gun Rights Examiner

Despite corroboration by CBS News of allegations by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents that monitored guns were allowed to be smuggled into their country by agency managers, the Mexican government has chosen not to address any of the specific charges in its reaction to the report:

Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C. said Mexico intends to continue to work with the U.S. to enhance intelligence and information sharing, and that Mexico "will continue to encourage more aggressive interdiction efforts on the U.S. side of the border."

Why the public evasion?  Especially since we can extrapolate that Mexican nationals have paid a price in blood for the “Project Gunwalker”* gun monitoring operation gone awry: