Who started Fast & Furious?
Who signed off on it first?
Almost two years and they can't find that out? Fire them all for incompetence.
Posted on 09/20/2012 4:34:18 PM PDT by raptor22
Scandal: The report our attorney general used to justify withholding evidence of who was responsible for the administration program that led to the deaths of two U.S. agents is out. It delivers more scapegoats than answers.
The release by the Department of Justice's inspector general of a 400-page report on the administration's gun-walking operation, Fast and Furious, is no big surprise.
As Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified Thursday before the House Oversight and Government Reform (OGR) Committee, Fast and Furious represented a "pattern of serious failures" by various agencies.
But he let the buck stop short of where it belongs — Attorney General Eric Holder's desk.
Horowitz mysteriously chose to lump Fast and Furious, as Team Obama does, with a Bush-era program, Wide Receiver. That operation was run out of Tucson between 2006 and 2007, ending before Bush left office and before Fast and Furious began in 2009.
Both Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious were part of a bigger effort called Project Gunrunner, which began in 2006. Even so, the differences between the two are vast, starting with the fact that Wide Receiver produced no dead bodies. It was run in close cooperation with Mexican authorities, as Fast and Furious wasn't, and involved gun-tracing and not gun-walking.
The report was repeatedly invoked by Holder as a reason for withholding answers and documents on Fast and Furious from OGR Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
Along with Sen. Charles Grassley, D-Iowa, Issa led the investigation of the operation that saw Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and ICE Agent Jaime Zapata murdered with guns supplied by the program. Holder, held in contempt by the House, still isn't very forthcoming.
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Holder was not “exonerated”. He was not even investigated. The 400 page report was a waste of effort. No real investigation took place. Just a whitewash.
If not exonerated, is this still an open case (to be taken up by the NEXT Attorney General)?
Because this person should be subject to prosecution and punishment while still on earth, and then have judgment pronounced upon his soul once he moves to the next plane of existence.
God may be merciful, but our courts should not.
Shredders and magnets (hard drive delete) have been busy wiping the scene of the crime clean....
Fast and Furious ping
Who signed off on it first?
Almost two years and they can't find that out? Fire them all for incompetence.
ptsal~” Shredders and magnets (hard drive delete) have been busy wiping the scene of the crime clean....”
Exactly true !
They have had 2 years to backtrack, whitewash , and dot the “i”’s and cross the “t”s for the investigation.
Also, several witnesses have translocated to the private sector (Pacs, bundlers, corporate contributors,etc.), or refused to cooperate , and at least one significant witness was transferred to Afghanistan .
In the last incident , the witness in Afghanistan was ‘in communicato’ and no known way to communicate. However , he did answer his Federal issued cell phone and then hung up. The Federal agency then cancelled this cellphone (and maybe another one issued ~ conjecture)
Not yet answered is the fact that while several leads point higher in the Dept. of “Just-Us” , and the WH staff , there has been a refusal to cooperate.
Thats what this report is: a whitewash and a “cover up”.
The citizenry will forget this issue in three months in the absence of media ‘sound bites’.
Let’s hope that the next adminstration will recall the lack of cooperation and obfiscation.
Maybe the issue should go to court (criminal and civil) in a change of adminsitrations.
That is the only way to enforce resolution to criminal behavior , the lack of cooperation , and therefusal to testify.
The only way Holder will ever be held accountable is if Romney becomes president and reverses Zero’s executive order that protected Holder’s emails.
The books and system are in full melt-down.
"Exonerated" is the media's word.
In testimony before Issa's committee, the IG for the DOJ described it as he "could find no evidence of involvement" -- because he had not been given access to the same correspondence that Issa's committee has subpoenaed, nor was he allowed to interview everybody he wanted to interview!
That doesn't sound like an "exoneration" to me...
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