Grassley asks for independent investigation of ATF

Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 9 March, 2011 | David Codrea

[marktwain]

“Sen. Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, demanded Tuesday that an independent watchdog be used to investigate the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives decision to let hundreds of guns fall into the hands of straw buyers for suspected Mexican weapons traffickers in hopes of making a bigger criminal case,” Rick Solomon of the Center for Public integrity reports.

Grassley’s press release states:

Senator Chuck Grassley today said that he did not have confidence that the Justice Department Inspector General’s office could produce a report that the public would view as frank and unbiased in its investigation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) policy of letting guns “walk” along the Southwest border—a policy that may have contributed to the death of a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent.

In a letter written to Kevin L. Perkins, Chair Integrity Committee Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, and citing perceived conflicts of interest as well as past disinterest in the allegations, Grassley requests “that the Acting Inspector General recuse her office and that a disinterested inspector general’s office be selected to conduct the review,” and makes two profound charges:

[T]he DOJ-OIG was aware of the allegations long before the Attorney General’s request and did nothing. Agent Dodson had already contacted the DOJ-OIG in December, just after Agent Terry’s death. He received no reply. After contacting my office, Agent Dodson contacted DOJ-OIG again, and still received no reply. No one from the office contacted him to gather information about his allegations until after my staff contacted the Acting Inspector General directly on February 1, 2011. Given that the DOJ-OIG initially failed to follow-up, it might have an incentive to minimize the significance of the allegations

[marktwain]

The Center for Public Integrity is a Soros funder organization. Looks like they are trying to gain "control" of this story.

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[Venturer]

I do not believe that the ATF allowed guns to fall into the hands of straw buyers to build a bigger case, and I don’t believe Senator Grassley believe’s it either.

How many guns would it have taken to build a stronger case? Not near as many as they allowed.

I believe it was done to build a stronger case for the gun banners to destroy our 2nd. Amendment rights and that it was ordered by the White Hous and the Justice department .
How will they investigate their own culpability?

I also believe this case wil be swept under the rug in spite of Senator Grassley’s objections :and why are we not hearing from the rest of the Republican party on this. They should all be up in arms.

[wmileo]

So what does U.S. Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer think about this? That is the question Grassley should be asking.
It is OK for Suspected gunrunners to make purchases of Firearms but we the people can't get access to guns because it is too dangerous to have them?

[ScottinVA]

Is Grassley the one R making noise about this?? Where the hell is everyone else???

[vortec94]

To All: Ruby Ridge, Waco, et al? Don’t waste the bandwidth on this, they will do nothing.