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| Project Gunwalker: Sen. Cornyn blasts promotions for ATF's 'Fast and Furious' supervisors |
| 2011-08-17 |
| A senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday described as "inconceivable" a Justice Department decision to promote key Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) personnel who oversaw the controversial "Fast and Furious" weapons investigation that allowed hundreds of guns to be walked into Mexico to new positions in Washington. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who last week demanded that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. immediately brief his office regarding the "scope and details of any past or present ATF gun-walking programs" in his state, said until Mr. Holder and the department "come clean" on the gun-walking investigation, "it is inconceivable to reward those who spearheaded this disastrous operation with cushy desks in Washington." The ATF has promoted three key supervisors of a controversial sting operation that allowed firearms to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border into Mexico. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #1 OPERATION FAST-N-FURIOUS > IMO should be held up as a good example of how an original well-intentioned schema could go horribly wrong due to poor oversight, nepotism, + politicization, + end up EMPOWERING THE BAD GUYS TO ONE'S OWN DETRIMENT, TO THE POINT OF SERIOUSLY THREATENING OR COMPROMISING BOTH INTEGRITY + CREDIBILITY. GOOD GUYS = CRIMINALS + ABUSERS, BAD GUYS = VICTIMS + HEROES??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-08-17 22:14 |