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| Gun Walking Makes Front-Page (Radio) News |
| 2011-11-01 |
| A news story released Monday shows that documents dumped by the Department of Justice (DOJ) contradict statements made by Attorney-General Eric Holder and other DOJ officials concerning what they knew about the Gunwalker scandal and when they knew it. I know this is not new news here. The documents contain a memo showing that the head of the DOJ's criminal justice division, Assistant Attorney-General Lanny Breuer, knew of the illegal operation as early as April of 2010. This is a contradiction to statements made by Attorney-General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama that no one in the Justice Department had any information of wrongdoing concerning the Gunwalker project. What's news is that it was on the DC news-traffic-weather radio channel this morning. Here's why: In a memo, Brueuer's deputy wrote him that, in a case called "Wide Receiver" started under the Bush Administration, "ATF let a bunch of guns walk" in an effort to catch the big fish of Mexican drug cartels and said the gunwalking case could be "embarrassing" to ATF. So now we can spin this into another investigation of Bush! |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #4 Nearly identical, except 4 times the cost, one-fourth the charisma, in one-quarter the time. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-11-01 14:47 |
| #3 NYT's version: Throughout the course of his investigation, however, it was brought to light that a very similar operation, Wide Receiver, was run using nearly identical tactics under Bush. They were nowhere "nearly" like Wide Receiver... -- there were attempts to follow the guns... |
| Posted by: Sherry 2011-11-01 13:40 |
| #2 Any yet another "It's Bush's fault." Poor guy, Bush is getting a lot of $hit dumped on him by this administration and their fifth column media. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-11-01 10:39 |
| #1 NPR ran the story this morning. Though the story in electrons is not the one I recall in my half waking state. Lot's of distorted blame Bush spin. But they buried it on their site. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-11-01 07:16 |