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| Trump administration to provide records on Obama-era gun-smuggling probe |
| 2018-05-18 |
| [Al-Rooters] The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to provide congressional investigators confidential records on a failed gun-trafficking operation during the Obama administration known as "Fast and Furious" that long has been criticized by Republican lawmakers. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department would hand over documents to the Republican-led House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that had been withheld by Democratic former President Barack Obama's administration. The agreement reached by Republican President Donald Trump's administration will effectively end a six-year long legal battle in which the committee had gone to federal court to try to enforce a subpoena it had issued to obtain the records. Congressional Republicans have been pressing the Justice Department for years about the operation. Named after a movie about car racing, the operation sought to curb gun-trafficking criminals who were selling weapons to Mexican drug cartels. In June 2012, the Republican-led House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder, an Obama appointee, in contempt for failing to turn over documents about the operation. The committee sued Holder for access to the documents in August 2012. Obama asserted executive privilege to block the disclosure of the documents. Democrats at the time accused Republicans of engaging in a partisan witch hunt. In an effort to build bigger cases against major gun traffickers who were selling arms to Mexican cartels, U.S. law enforcement officials elected not to prosecute lower-level offenders transporting more than 2,000 illegal guns. The operation and its flaws became public after two of those firearms were found in Arizona at the scene of a fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. In September 2012, the Justice Department's inspector general released a report faulting 12 department employees for failures related to the operation. The report vindicated Holder, concluding he neither conceived the operation nor attempted a cover-up. Holder,now a partner at the law firm Covington and Burling LLP, could not be immediately reached at his office on Wednesday. Probably cleaning up the shart in the restroom. Embarrassing |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #12 Wonder if those twelve were already dead and unlikely to complain. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-05-18 14:35 |
| #11 Baraq did everything he could to hurt this country. He did it deliberately and with malice. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-05-18 14:15 |
| #10 Fascism Lite? Socialism Reefer...but we didn't inhale? |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-05-18 14:03 |
| #9 oBanana Republic? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-05-18 12:10 |
| #8 Release might help the cause of transparency if it gets reported by the MSM. Transparency might prevent future CFs. It is doubtful that anyone will go to jail although they should. As F & F was a backdoor attack on the 2nd Amendment. If history were written honestly, the BO admin. ought to be known as the "Gangster Government," the " Deepstate Grand Rip-Off" or "BO's Corruptacracy." I don't think any of these phrases accurately captures the magnitude of criminality and underhandedness that has gone on. Maybe someone here has a good name for what happened during the past 8 yrs? This goes back beyond the last 8 years into other admins.--not all on Hussein. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-05-18 09:20 |
| #7 Ship an unredacted copy to Mexico's equivalent of DoJ for extradition considerations. "For your consideration..." |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2018-05-18 07:23 |
| #6 Over/under on the number of redactions? |
| Posted by: charger 2018-05-18 06:59 |
| #5 Small arms and ammunition were only provided to the....moderate cartels. The release of additional project 'Crossfire Hurricane' information could compromise national security. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-05-18 05:46 |
| #4 "The operation and its Could be huge. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-05-18 04:55 |
| #3 MSM to ignore |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-05-18 04:16 |
| #2 Probably cleaning up the shart in the restroom. Embarrassing Probably trying to figure out which talk show he's going to have to be on to make money after he's disbarred. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-05-18 00:52 |
| #1 "In September 2012, the Justice Department's inspector general released a report faulting 12 department employees for failures related to the operation. The report vindicated Holder, concluding he neither conceived the operation nor attempted a cover-up." translation: The IG in 2012, guessing that Obama would be President for 4 more years and figuring that the investigation documents would never be seen found 12 fall guys to take the blame." |
| Posted by: lord garth 2018-05-18 00:24 |