Beyond the Defense's strategy, it's no doubt an awkward subject for them too.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny...nd-furious-el-chapo-trial-20181210-story.html
Prosecutors at El Chapo’s drug trafficking trial in Brooklyn want to shoot down any mention of the government’s botched “Fast and Furious” gun probe in witness testimony. They’re asking a federal judge to block any defense questions about the program in which federal agents allowed illegal weapons to flow over the border to Mexico in an effort to gain intelligence on drug cartels.
Prosecutors claim ex-drug lord wants to highlight failures of “Fast and Furious” to “distract and confuse the jury,” U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue wrote in his motion filed Friday. “The defense is attempting to use the well-known operation to place the government on trial,” he argued.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny...nd-furious-el-chapo-trial-20181210-story.html