Posted on 07/30/2012 6:18:30 PM PDT by kristinn
Republican congressional investigators have concluded that five senior ATF officials -- from the special agent-in-charge of the Phoenix field office to the top man in the bureau’s Washington headquarters -- are collectively responsible for the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation that was “marred by missteps, poor judgments and inherently reckless strategy.”
The investigators, in a final report likely to be released later this week, also unearthed new evidence that agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix initially sought to hide from the Mexican government the crucial information that two Fast and Furious firearms were recovered after the brother of a Mexican state attorney general was killed there.
According to a copy of the report obtained Monday by The Times, the investigators said their findings are “the best information available as of now” about the flawed gun operation that last month led to Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. being found in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents.
Two more final reports, they said, will deal with “the devastating failure of supervision and leadership” at the Department of Justice and an “unprecedented obstruction of the [congressional] investigation by the highest levels of the Justice Department, including the attorney general himself.”
The first report did allege some Justice Department involvement, however, notably that Kenneth E. Melson, then acting ATF director, was made into a “scapegoat” for Fast and Furious after he told congressional Republicans his Justice Department supervisors “were doing more damage control than anything” else once Fast and Furious became public.
“My view is that the whole matter of the department’s response in this case was a disaster,” Melson told the investigators.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Must be bad....they needed 5 scapegoats.
They should have Jay Leno read those final reports, they will be laughable.
” are collectively responsible for the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation”
It wasn’t “failed”! It did exactly what they intended!
I bet Holder is shaking in his shoes over those two final reports. Probably shaking as hard as Maxine Waters over her ethics trial that never came up.
bump.. for reading first thing in the morning..
PURE BS!
Evidence of Inter-Agency Coordination makes it impossible to be planned anywhere but 1600 Penn. Ave. You can blame the field grunts for following orders (like good little Nazis), But Obozo and his direct subordinates planned this. It was NOT a Sting Operation.....
Play spin the bottle of Fast & Furious and it will wind up pointing directly to Obozo’s A$$.
Republican congressional investigators concluded five senior ATF officials from the special agent-in-charge of the Phoenix field office to the top man in the bureau’s Washington headquarters responsible for Fast and Furious that was “marred by missteps, poor judgments and inherently reckless strategy.”
Well....It would appear so.
Of course, those in D.C., like fatcorps, will always blame the subordinates...
Will they make a deal with their superiors for leniency to keep their mouths shut? Can any of them produce additional evidence linking/connecting the White House or the AG?
Has all this been choreographed and sanitized?
LOL!!!
I’ll listen to the LA Times when they release the videotape they have of Obama and the Muslim fundraiser in 2008.
We shall see. You think the five are just going to eat this and like it? They are going to talk.
"You boys go collect your gold plated government retirements, go enjoy yourselves and your families, take a long vacation and buy that vacation home" Thanks for your service!
Obama is an idiot, but he also knows how hide from responsibility, like democrat. Once he claimed Executive Privilege, the congressional investigation was over. It wil be years, if EVER, before any more documents are produced.
This is probably the best they can do without getting the documents they need.
Does anyone for a moment think that this stunning leak of a report might be a head fake to make those “5” think they are going to be the only ones held out to dry? Would you fall on Holder’s sword if you were ordered to do what this report says it did? Besides, they could all be exposed to murder charges.
I see it as a smoke out to people who are not willing to come out to tell what they know. Mellon has already done that and for doing so the Republicans hang him as the top conspirator?
I giess we will see, but who will they talk to, and will the media report it?
Correction; Melson, not Mellon
Well they'd better have something to back it up. All are very aware, the first to squeal gets the deal.
Unless they cut a deal behind closed doors to take the fall, as long as no criminal charges are brought.
How many of these 5 will stay alive?<<
News Flash: 5 killed at Ft Marcy Park Justice Dept. picnic!
The suspect..a Crazed White man whose DNA is linked to George Washington is still on the loose!
Film at 11 !
It’s not a head fake.
CIA was involved with this.
It’s going nowhere.
A CIA rendition plane crash landed with over 6000 pounds of Sinaloa Cocaine. A plane that had been sold twice just before the crash.
F&F didn’t happen without CIA knowledge.
Gun Control for the little folk!
But we are the Federal Government. We’re giving ‘em away to hoodlums and potential terrorists across the border....
... AND WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE DOING!
I have been hearing naysayers since this started. But Issa keeps plugging away. This isn't over.
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