Posted on 06/05/2012 11:03:04 PM PDT by XHogPilot
A House investigative committee said Tuesday it has obtained new information from wiretaps related to the Obama administration’s Operation Fast and Furious that suggests high-ranking officials know more than they are telling Congress about the flawed weapons sting.
“The wiretap applications show that immense detail about questionable investigative tactics was available to the senior officials who reviewed and authorized them,” Issa said in a June 5 letter to Holder. “The close involvement of these officials -- much greater than previously known -- is shocking.”
The targets of "Fast and Furious" bought nearly 2,000 weapons over several months. For reasons that are still in dispute, most of those weapons were never followed. High-powered weapons tied to the investigation ended up at crime scenes in Mexico and the United States, including the December 2010 murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
The wiretaps were intended to allow investigators in Arizona to listen to the phone calls of suspects as part of the strategy to reveal evidence of involvement by high-level Mexican cartel associates. The six applications for wiretaps, which have been sealed by a federal judge, detail specific actions taken by agents involved in the operation, the GOP-controlled committee said in a statement.
The information shows the officials made “conscious decisions” not to interdict weapons that agents knew were illegally purchased by smugglers taking weapons to Mexico, according to the statement.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/05/issa-wiretaps-show-immense-detail-about-questionable-fast-furious-tactics/?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz1wzR5NZdg
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As long as bodies keep hitting the deck this story will not die. And with all the arms our FedMob gov has given to the drug cartels the bodies will keep hitting the deck. For decades.
No, it's simple. Just have the msm spin it by blaming it on Bush or whatever the flavor of the day or convince everyone it's good for the environment.
You can only pardon the guilty. If Holder isn't found guilty before Barry is out, Barry can't do squat.
Break the story, get indictments before the election, trial after/during the election season, conviction after Jan 20 would be the perfect timeline.
A President can grant a pardon before a trial. Take Nixon for example. But the person accepting the pardon is making a de facto admission of guilt. A small difference from your statement, but meaningful.
Who did Nixon Pardon before they were found guilty?
Nixon was pardoned before he was tried.
To paraphrase Stalin: Kill one and it’s murder. Kill a million and it’s a statistic.
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