Posted on 12/02/2011 1:30:45 PM PST by Qbert
While federal officials publicly denounced a lone whistleblower and told Congress the Obama administration had done everything it could to stop guns from going to Mexico, administration officials had signs that Fast and Furious investigators were losing track of weapons, a new memo obtained exclusively by Fox News suggests.
The memo, written in early February by Agent Gary Styers with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, appears to corroborate allegations made a few weeks earlier by whistleblower ATF Agent John Dodson about the gunrunning probe. It also conflicts with a letter from Assistant Attorney General Ron Weich to Congress, in which he insisted, "The allegation ... that ATF ‘sanctioned’ or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons ... is false.”
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And while Attorney General Eric Holder now admits Weich's letter was inaccurate, many in Congress feel deliberately misled.
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Grassley says emails also show Burke spoke on Dec. 15, the day after Terry was shot, with Holder’s deputy chief of staff, Monty Wilkinson.
Shortly after that, the deputy director of the ATF made sure briefing papers were prepared about the Fast and Furious connection to Terry’s death and sent those to the deputy attorney general’s office at the Justice Department. Within 24 hours, Grassley said, they were forwarded to Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler, accompanied by a personal email from one of Grindler’s assistants, explaining the situation. Two weeks later, Grindler was named Holder's chief of staff.
"So, a very important question is unanswered," Grassley said. "Why wouldn’t Mr. Grindler bring up these serious problems with Attorney General Holder? The Border Patrol and the Department of Homeland Security lost a man. ... And, if that’s not serious enough to brief up to the top of the department, then I don’t know what is."
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Let’s face it: Our Prez is a man we do not know AT ALL:
Larry Sinclaire warned us that Obama was a guy who enjoyed being fellated almost by total strangers, and that when Obama showed up for this activity, he brought and did smoke CRACK COCAINE.
Now it appears our Prez also smuggled thousands of machine-guns to Mexican drug kingpins.
>>Muslim homo druggie machine-gun smuggler<< —that is an amazing combination.
What else have we not yet learned..? By now NOTHING would surprise me.
If only Fox will report it, will enough people ever care?
Why would’nt the assistant AG speak with WITHHOLDER. Answer, he would and did. WITHHOLDER is well WITHHOLDING. Don’t you know it’s payback time for whitie and the U.S. for all those years of putting his people down. These socialist democrat frauds will lie and justify it in their own warped minds that way. Why would obama insult the american people by producing an obviously false birth certificate. SAME REASON. Our government is infested with these type of frauds. EPA, DOE, DOJ to name a few. 2012 can’t come soon enough.
Losing track? These four ATF agents all testified under oath that they were ordered to stand down and let guns "walk" against their objections.
The Department of Justice’s Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents
Thanks.
The comments are fascinating — the leftist freaks are reduced to blaming Republicans and thinking it’s about money.
A surprisingly lot of conservative responses on CBS.
IIRC, CBS first broke the F&F story.
Yes, thanks.
I remember now, it’s been by the author of the CBS link a couple of posts ago.
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