Posted on 03/14/2011 3:24:21 PM PDT by neverdem
The statement says Mexico would never have allowed arms to enter the country as part of the operation under which U.S. agents permitted the purchase of weapons to build more sweeping criminal cases.
Mexican authorities say they were aware of the U.S. anti-gun operation that allowed smugglers to buy weapons under the watch of agents in the United States, but that they had no idea that the program allowed weapons to be smuggled into Mexico.
In a statement issued late Thursday, Mexico's federal attorney general's office said Mexican officials were advised of operations north of the border against suspected traffickers. But the Mexican agency said it "had no knowledge of the existence of an operation that might include the transgression..."
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The Mexican statement praised U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. for launching an investigation into the operation. Holder said that "letting guns walk … is not something that is acceptable."
But in the United States, there are concerns about Holder's decision to delegate to the Justice Department's inspector general responsibility for conducting the probe, already underway. One of the key ATF whistle-blowers to have complained about the gun-running operation was ignored when he originally sought the inspector general's intervention.
In a letter this week to the integrity committee of the Council of Inspectors General, U.S. Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who is probing the Fast and Furious operation as the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the Justice Department's own role in supervising the operation must also be part of the investigation.
"Given that the [inspector general's office] initially failed to follow up, it might have an incentive to minimize the significance of the allegations in order to avoid the appearance that its own inaction contributed to the problem in the last few months," Grassley wrote.
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Well, DUhh.. Then it wouldn’t have been a truly covert op.
Yes they did, when they made that ridiculous claim that ninety percent of the guns used in Mexico were coming from the U.S. firearms dealers.
But it appears they had no problem letting them in otherwise.
......according to the libtard media, Dumbo is allow three mulligans a week.
"Next time youse guise tells us when you doing this sort of investigations, okaydokey?"
Obama and Eric Holder are right in the middle of this mess.
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