If all this information were true than why did " Mr Innocent" give up that information under the probe? Why, did not these new sacrificial lambs heads roll back when all this blew up. This is nothing more than a big cover up on the Obama Administration to save his A**. I advise our leaders to still demand to see any and all documentation involved in that program, there is a huge elephant in the room my friends...American lives were lost in this operation and more than a couple of lackeys should take the fall for this one. This program went all the way to the top of the "WHITE HOUSE" in my opinion. If you follow the program George Bush had in place and if Obama made a new program than of course this was a President having implausible denial of any such program...Darrell Issa and others involved in getting the Truth should now more than ever double down with the Power of their part of our three branches of Government and get all the facts before they are all berried.
Operation "Fast and Furious " the controversial
undercover operation that allowed U.S. guns to be walked into Mexico,
was a "risky strategy" that did not "adequately take into account the
significant danger to public safety that it created.". That was the conclusion today from the Office of the Inspector General Department of Justice, after an investigation that spanned more than a year and a half.
The OIG investigation found that Attorney General Eric Holder was not aware of the strategy and tactics used in 'Fast and Furious,"
and turned up no evidence that Holder or other top DOJ officials tried
to cover up the operation, or mislead Congress about it. Holder was
held in contempt of Congress earlier this year for allegedly withholding
documents about DOJ's "Fast and Furious" investigation from congressional investigators.
In a statement today, Holder said, "It is unfortunate that some were so
quick to make baseless accusations before they possessed the facts about
these operations -- accusations that turned out to be without
foundation and that have caused a great deal of unnecessary harm and
confusion."
The political trickery,
triggered by the flawed undercover operation played out in a series of
contentious hearings on Capitol Hill in the past year. Behind the
battles, the OIG found, was an undercover operation to catch gun-runners on the Southwest border that quickly turned bad.
Some of the 2,000 guns that made their way into Mexico as a result of "Operation Fast and Furious"
were later recovered at crime scenes, including two found at the scene
of the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010.
The "Fast and Furious"
strategy called for agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms to conduct surveillance and review phone and financial records
to track guns they believed to be going to Mexican drug lords, who could
then be arrested. But ATF
lost track of most of the guns, few arrests were made, and yet "the
purchasing activity by Operation Fast and Furious subjects continued
unabated, individuals who had engaged in serious and dangerous criminal
conduct remained at large, and the public was put in harm's way."
The OIG investigation "revealed a series of misguided strategies,
tactics, errors in judgment and management failures that permeated ATF
Headquarters and the Phoenix Field Division, as well as the U.S.
Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona and at the Headquarters of
the Department of Justice."
The report also details serious mistakes in DOJ's response to congressional inquiries about "Fast and Furious."
The Inspector General's review has recommended 14 Justice Department and ATF
officials for disciplinary and administrative review, including the
head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, Assistant Attorney
General Lanny Breuer.
As a result of the OIG findings, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein resigned his post today. The OIG report charged that Weinstein, a senior aide to Breuer, did not adequately share critical information about "Fast and Furious," and its predecessor operation, "Wide Receiver," with top DOJ officials.
Because that information did not reach the attorney general, more
aggressive oversight of the operation did not occur, and misinformation
was passed on to Congress, according to the OIG
report. Weinstein and his attorney vigorously denied any wrongdoing,
saying Weinstein did not receive the key information he needed from the
agents carrying out the operation. The former acting director of ATF during the operation, Kenneth Melson, today retired from the Department of Justice, effective immediately.
The report was highly critical of William Newell, the former special
agent in charge of the Phoenix field office. "Newell also bore ultimate
responsibility for the failures in Operation Fast and Furious," the
review found, citing his leadership position and involvement in the
case. Newell is working at ATF Headquarters in Washington.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, one of the leading congressional critics of DOJ's handing of "Fast and Furious," issued a statement today, saying, "Operation Fast and Furious
was the height of irresponsibility on the part of a number of people
from the ATF Phoenix field office all the way up to the Justice
Department headquarters. And, we still don't know the full extent of
any White House involvement because they refused to be transparent and
provide documents requested by the Inspector General. It's clear that
both the ATF and the Justice Department failed to provide meaningful oversight of Operation Fast and Furious."
The OIG
report also detailed the mistakes that lead to the killing of Border
Patrol Agent Brian Terry: "On January 16, 2010, one of the straw
purchasers purchased three AK-47 style rifles from a Phoenix-area gun
store. ATF
agents learned about that purchase 3 days later and, consistent with
the investigative strategy in the case, made no effort to locate (the
purchaser) or seize the rifles although ATF had identified the suspect
in November 2009. Two of the three rifles purchased by (the suspect) on
January 16 were recovered 11 months later at the scene of the murder of
Agent Terry, who was shot and killed on December 14, 2010, as he tried
to arrest persons believed to be illegally entering the United States
... "
The day after Agent Terry's death, ATF agents arrested that suspect,
Jaime Avila, and later 20 more alleged gun buyers and traffickers. As of
Sept. 1, 2012, 14 defendants, including Avila, had entered guilty pleas
to one or more counts of the indictment. In all, "Fast and Furious"
identified more than 40 subjects believed to be connected to a
trafficking conspiracy responsible for purchasing more than 2,000
firearms for about $1.5 million in cash. The vast majority of the
firearms purchased by Operation Fast and Furious subjects were AK-47
style rifles and FN Herstal 5.7 caliber pistols.
The OIG
report also noted, "what began as an important and promising
investigation of serious firearms trafficking along the Southwest Border
that was developed through the efforts of a short-staffed ATF
enforcement group quickly grew into an investigation that lacked
realistic objectives, did not have appropriate supervision within ATF or
the U.S. Attorney's Office, and failed to adequately assess the public
safety consequences of not stopping or controlling the alarming
purchasing activity."
The report indicates that the OIG reviewed more than 100,000 documents and interviewed more than 130 witnesses, many on multiple occasions.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz said, "We operated with complete and
total independence in our search for the truth, and the decision about
what to cover in this report and the conclusions that we reached were
made solely by me and my office." My fellow Americans, this is nothing more than a shift of the hand to cover up the truth...I have this to say "Nixon did not kill any Amierican's" and was Impeached, "WE THE PEOPLE" deserve and want the whole TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUE...So help you GOD!
You members in Congress should push even harder for the cover up is under way and all evidence you seek is being destroyed, I love my country but, I have to say our leaders today of our nation have only their own ambitions at heart and it is no longer our country first. God have pity on these men and women's souls.
Truth, is the only true light to set you FREE
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