Last Friday, a source in Grassley’s office confirmed that Justice Department documents had started to arrive at Grassley’s office. That was part of an apparent arrangement, discussed by this column, that freed up three DOJ nominations in exchange for the release of the requested documents.
No doubt the unrelated event of Attorney General Holder dropping most of his CIA torture investigations have a similar quid pro quo.
Republicans have no spine. Holder and others need to go to jail.
Grassley: ‘Very High Up’ DOJ Officials in on ATF Gun Sting
Monday, 04 Jul 2011 06:25 PM
By Martin Gould and Kathleen Walter
Senior Justice Department officers were warned that plans to track guns to Mexican drug kingpins were doomed to failure, veteran Republican Sen. Charles Grassley has revealed in an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV.
And, he said, high-ranking members of the department were briefed on the Operation Fast and Furious and Project Gunrunner as far back as October 2009.
But Grassley says he does not want anyone to resign just yet until Congress has got to the bottom of the whole issue.
“I’m not asking for anybody’s resignation at this point because somebody resigns and then they want you to believe that’s the end of it,” he said. “There are too many people involved in it for me to be satisfied with one resignation.”
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