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Posted on 01/30/2012 10:16:33 PM PST by neverdem
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Tuesday are expected to publish a report on the disputed gun trafficking investigation called Operation Fast and Furious, concluding that agents in Arizona — not Obama administration officials — were responsible for the tactics used in the inquiry and for providing misleading information relayed to Congress.
In an 89-page report, titled “Fatally Flawed: Five Years of Gun-walking in Arizona,” the Democratic staff portrays Fast and Furious as the fourth investigation, dating back to 2006, in which Arizona-based agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives employed the tactic “gun-walking” — failing to interdict illegally purchased guns in an attempt to build a bigger case.
“This report debunks many unsubstantiated conspiracy theories,” Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, wrote in a cover letter. “Contrary to repeated claims by some, the committee has obtained no evidence that Operation Fast and Furious was a politically motivated operation conceived and directed by high-level Obama administration political appointees at the Department of Justice.”
Still, because the report was written by Democrats, the political impact of its conclusion exonerating high-level officials of wrongdoing may be limited. Its publication comes two days before Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is to testify before the committee. In previous hearings, Republicans have accused the department of sanctioning the tactics and lying to Congress.
In Fast and Furious, which ran from late 2009 to early 2011, A.T.F. officials lost track of about 2,000 guns purchased by suspected “straw buyers.” Many weapons are believed to have reached a Mexican drug cartel. Two guns linked to the investigation were found at the site of a shootout in which a Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, was killed.
Congressional Republicans — led by Representative Darrell Issa of California, the...
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It looks like the Democrats are using the "blame game" again. That is about all they can do, given that they have disordered minds.
Looks convenient because Arizona is conducting its own investigation. Yeah, they did it over there, in Arizona, not here in Washington, DC. Yeah.
Ditto
Five years? That means its BUSH’S FAULT!!
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The Congressional dems are trying to out-satire you...
I have come to the conclusion that there is no way this nation can proceed in it’s current form. We are heading for a split or something.
Agree.
We make banana Republics look like democracies.
Obama never had sex with that gun.
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
With people taking the Fifth, it's quite obvious that they don't have all the facts yet.
Report by House Democrats Absolves Administration in Gun Trafficking Case
feh...
Do you really expect the truth to ever come out?
I don’t.
You have to notice that this report comes out before the Issa report. Issa has been investiating this F&F thing for months, and no action taken.
Now the Democrats have issued their own report and Issa will begin to tone down his own and it will eventually die down and dissappear
That is my opinion and I hope I am wrong, but I haven’t seen anything to change my mind. F&F might coast along for a few more weeks, but it’s over.
Their "investigation" of misdeeds by Democrats has no creedence, and should be followed by a presser by Issa and Grassley which states that their findings so far are indeed markedly different, and that a whitewash and unofficial report of an ongoing investigation is not just premature, but merely a political ploy.
While maybe FOX will air it, if the statement is made, it will get out on the web.
I’m sure we can trust them /s
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