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Project Gunwalker: Issa to NRA: Two More Fast & Furious Hearings Planned This Year
This 8 minute interview is worth your time --- if you are following Project Gunwalker.Video here Congressman Darrell Issa on Friday told NRA News that he is planning at least two more hearings on Operation Fast & Furious this year before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and that he will follow the investigation up. Issa, in the telephone interview with NRA News Ginny Simone, audibly marvels at the testimony from former Phoenix Special Agent in Charge William Newell. During the hearing, Issa called Newell the paid non-answerer on the panel of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. While other agents, most notably former attaché to Mexico Darren Gil and the current acting attaché Carlos Canino repeatedly denounced the Fast and Furious operation, Newell repeatedly insisted it was a good idea that essentially just didnt work out. The obviously frustrated Issa, who told Simone: You can play semantics all you want. Very clearly, four agents all knew what was being done was gun walking while the agents involved tried to defend that this wasnt technically gun walking, but the guns walked and people died. Issa also said that the White House has not cooperated in any way, shape or form with the investigation. Documents requested from the Justice Department have frequently been completely redacted, or so heavily redacted as to render them useless. Posted by: Sherry 2011-07-31 |
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