Article: Anti-gunrunning lauded, probed; IG questions use of funding.(THE SECOND FRONT)

Byline: Jerry Seper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Just days after the Justice Department said its anti-gunrunning project on the U.S.-Mexico border had made enormous inroads into stemming firearms-related violent crime and touted a planned expansion of the program, the department's Office of Inspector General on Monday said some funding for the $22 million project was not being properly used.

In a 39-page report, Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said that while a proposed expansion of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Project Gun Runner should enhance its ability to combat firearms trafficking along the Southwest border, other planned ...

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