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| Saving Eric Holder: Oversight Democrats Stress Gunwalking's History |
| 2012-02-01 |
| A new report from the Democratic staff of the main House committee investigating Operation Fast and Furious stresses that federal law enforcement officials in Arizona relied on the investigative tactic of gunwalking as far back as 2006 and used it in three other investigations before the one that made the technique infamous. The minority report, "Fatally Flawed: Five Years on Gunwalking in Arizona," was released early Tuesday, two days before Attorney General Eric Holder is to testify before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing into Fast and Furious, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation that allegedly permitted more than 1000 guns to flow from licensed dealers in the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels. Two of the weapons were found at the scene of the killing of a Border Patrol agent in Arizona in December 2010. The timing of the Democratic staff report seemed aimed at taking the sting out of Thursday's hearing and muddling a more hostile narrative Committee Chairman Darrell Issa of California is likely to lay out. In a letter accompanying the report, the panel's ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, indicated that the committee's year-long probe had turned up no indication that Operation Fast and Furious was directed from Justice Department headquarters "Contrary to repeated claims by some, the Committee has obtained no evidence that Operation Fast and Furious was a politically-motivated operation conceived and directed by high-level Obama Administration political appointees at the Department of Justice,” Cummings wrote. “The documents obtained and interviews conducted by the Committee indicate that it was the latest in a series of reckless and fatally flawed operations run by ATF’s Phoenix Field Division during both the previous and current administrations.” |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #2 After-all, if something fails, keep trying it until it does not? |
| Posted by: newc 2012-02-01 22:09 |
| #1 Page 1 of the political playbook is Dodge and deflect. Most folks aren't smart enough to get to page 2 .... |
| Posted by: Mike Ramsey 2012-02-01 12:44 |