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09-07-2011, 08:32 PM #1
Attorney General Eric Holder seeks distance from gun sting
Attorney General Eric Holder seeks distance from gun sting
huffingtonpost.com
First Posted: 9/7/11 06:40 PM ET
Updated: 9/7/11 08:12 PM ET
By Jeremy Pelofsky
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday sought to distance himself and other senior Justice Department officials from a botched operation to track guns smuggled to Mexican drug cartels, saying they were not involved.
The Obama administration has been under scrutiny after revelations that as many as 2,000 guns were sold to suspected gun traffickers, not properly tracked and ended up at crime scenes in the United States and Mexico.
The operation, dubbed "Fast and Furious", was run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Attorney's office in Arizona. Congressional Republicans have questioned who approved it and whether senior Justice Department officials were involved.
"The notion that somehow or other that this thing reaches into the upper levels of the Justice Department is something that, at this point, I don't think is supported by the facts," Holder told reporters.
The botched operation already has claimed the jobs of Ken Melson, acting director of the ATF, who was transferred to another Justice Department job, and the U.S. Attorney for Arizona, Dennis Burke, who resigned abruptly last week.
ATF officials and federal prosecutors had hoped the operation would help them follow the guns to cartel leaders. But ATF agents did not witness many of the purchases or track many of the guns after the initial purchaser resold them.
Holder questioned whether the congressional probe, led by Republicans in the House of Representatives and Senate, was politically motivated.
He admitted it was a "flawed enforcement effort," but said, "my hope would be that Congress will conduct an investigation that is factually based and not marred with politics."
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley denied any partisanship to the investigation. "We need to know exactly what happened and why. Then people need to be held accountable to make sure something so stupid never happens again," he said.
Two guns from the operation were found at the scene where a U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot dead in a shootout with illegal immigrants last December.
(Editing by Christopher Wilson)
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09-07-2011, 11:20 PM #2
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Attorney General Eric Holder seeks distance from gun stink
Originally Posted by Jeremy Pelofsky at huffingtonpost.com
about which Attorney General Eric Holder and his ATF subordinates claim ignorance,
should result in wholesale housecleaning at the DOJ, beginning from the top down.
Of all people, law enforcement should know that IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE.
But A.G. Eric Holder is counting on a gutless government to have no stomach for standing down
armed enemy combatants masquerading as U.S. law enforcment officials.One man's terrorist is another man's undocumented worker.
Unless we enforce laws against illegal aliens today,
tomorrow WE may wake up as illegals.
The last word: illegal aliens are ILLEGAL!
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09-07-2011, 11:25 PM #3
Re: Attorney General Eric Holder seeks distance from gun sti
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Originally Posted by "Jeremy Pelofsky at huffingtonpost.com":2wmul0ps
and about which Attorney General Eric Holder and his ATF subordinates were ignorant,
That won't happen til the Buzzard is out of office.
should result in wholesale housecleaning at the DOJ, beginning from the top down.
Of all people, Law enforcement should know that ignorance is no excuse.[/quote:2wmul0ps] That won't happen til that buzzard is out of office.You cannot dedicate yourself to America unless you become in every
respect and with every purpose of your will thoroughly Americans. You
cannot become thoroughly Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. President Woodrow Wilson
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09-08-2011, 01:43 PM #4
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09-08-2011, 04:44 PM #5
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