[Texas Fossil]

This has been reported in other news outlets, but NPR is the place Eric "the Red" Holder chose to release the emails.

An interesting link in the article is to a letter from Holder's Justice Department to the Issa Committee.

Justice Dept Letter

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[Tammy8]

“IF” we had a responsible media that cared about this country the whole story would be told and all those guilty of this mess would face charges. Can you imagine if Obama were a Republican President how important this story would be and how many resignations and trials would follow?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"Breuer's proposal involved coordination between the governments and didn't contemplate agents losing track of guns, as happened in the Fast and Furious debacle."

That's two lies right there!

[Tammy8]

“IF” we had a responsible media that cared about this country the whole story would be told and all those guilty of this mess would face charges. Can you imagine if Obama were a Republican President how important this story would be and how many resignations and trials would follow?

[philman_36]

From that letter...
II. The Need For Congressional Action
While the reforms described above are an appropriate response to Wide Receiver, Fast and Furious and the other investigations where inappropriate investigative tactics were used, they will not halt the epidemic of gun trafficking on the Southwest border.

What "other investigations"?

[MestaMachine]

[Ajnin]

For the first time, the Justice Department has made public a series of sensitive messages that passed to the highest levels of the agency within hours of an ambush that killed a U.S. border patrol agent along the Southwest border in December 2010, igniting a national scandal over a gun trafficking investigation gone wrong

An ambush didn't kill Terry. Agent Terry was killed while performing an ambush style operation to apprehend a rip crew.

[saleman]

Somehow they managed to tie Fast and Furious to Bush.

Also, “In a meeting with Mexican government officials in February 2011, for instance, Breuer “suggested allowing straw purchasers cross into Mexico so [police] can arrest and [prosecutors] can convict. Such coordinated activities between the US and Mexico may send a strong message to arms traffickers.”

Hadn't Terry already been killed by this time? This “meeting with Mexican officials” looks like a way to cover their ass. With the help of friendly media.

Matter of fact this whole article looks to me as a way to confuse the uninformed. Hell, it confuses me and I've been following this pretty closely.

[Bryan24]

The entire Fast and Furious Operation was a debacle of epic proportions. The whole operational concept was stupid and guaranteed to fail. The only outcome that should have been expected was lots of lost guns.

They dumped guns on purpose to show a need to restrict guns more.

[AndyJackson]

The attorney general, in testimony to the House and Senate last year, said he feared the Justice Department could be living with the consequences of more than 1,000 guns connected to Fast and Furious that remain unaccounted for years to come.

These are not 1,000 guns in the hands of law abiding citizens. These are 1,000 guns deliberately channeled to known criminals.

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