Posted on 06/20/2011 7:37:47 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R.-Calif.) told CNSNews.com in an interview that he believes the Justice Department is covering up information relevant to a congressional investigation of an operation in which the department knowingly allowed intermediaries of Mexican drug cartels to purchase guns at licensed firearms dealers in the United States and then get away without being arrested or the guns being retrieved.
Last December, two of those guns ended up at the scene of the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed by alleged agents of the Mexican drug cartels.
Issa pointed to two things he says indicates a Justice Department cover up. First, he cites a letter that Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich, head of the Justice Departments office of legislative affairs, sent to Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 4, 2011. Issa characterizes that letter as a lie.
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Why would they allow this to happen?
Usually it’s the Attorney General who makes that appointment. In this case, since the AG would be the target, I don’t really know.
The only logical answer presented so far is so they could promote anti-gun legislation. Remember Obama,Holder,Napolitano all on the news in 09-10 saying that the Mexican drug cartel bought AK’s at US gun shows?
Look what happened to IG Walpin.
Read the last paragraph here.So far the only HOLDER news today...
ON DRUDGE headline ONLY NO LINK
REPORT: ATF DIRECTOR EXPECTED TO RESIGN UNDER PRESSURE... DEVELOPING...
AG Holder is not a elected official, so he is not exempted from the treaty.
BTW I generally agree with your statements.
I figure they’ll throw the director of the ATF to the wolves and that’ll be the end of it. Put another fascist Obama toady in and business as usual resumes.
I wish I could avoid being so cynical, but I have no faith whatsoever that the legal system or “check and balances” will provide any relief from the multitude of illegal activities of Obama and Co.
A cancer is growing on the Presidency...
I don’t know if it is possable to fire that creep with this admistration still in, but if he did somethong criminal then hopefully he can be tried sooner or later
I prefer the drip drip drip drip so hopefully this all lingers into next year
> What was done in Gunwalker
Correction: Operation Fast and Furious. The Dems want you to get the two mixed up.
It was an anti-gun PR scam.
This operation is what Obama meant when he said he was pursuing gun control “under the radar”.
That is the same thing which came to me when this story first broke.
This was Obama’s way to push gun control without it passing Congress which he knew he couldn’t do right now.
He would have waited for more stories about U.S. guns causing Mexican crime. Then he would have issued some illegal executive orders and had BATFE issue more regulations based on the “sporting purpose” part of GCA 1968.
So what can he do about it?
I guarantee you will see impeachment when it comes out that the democrats accepted Mexican Drug Cartel money in turn for the right to buy the best US assault weapons unimpeded by ATF. I smell that rat lurking....
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