Posted on 05/20/2013 2:02:46 PM PDT by markomalley
The U.S. Attorney in Arizona violated Justice Department policy by providing Fox News with information apparently aimed at undercutting the credibility of a federal agent who helped reveal the botched arms-trafficking probe called Operation Fast and Furious, the Justice Department's inspector general said Monday.
There was substantial evidence in the 2011 incident that then-U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke's motive for disclosing a memo by federal agent John Dodson was retaliation, the inspector general's report said. In testimony to a House committee just two weeks earlier, Dodson had raised serious concerns about Operation Fast and Furious.
In Dodson's memo, which was eventually leaked, Dodson proposed a tactic similar to the one being used at the time in Operation Fast and Furious. Dodson proposed acting in an undercover capacity to deliver firearms to a suspected firearms trafficker, but taking no enforcement action upon delivering the firearms.
Dodson later told investigators that he and other ATF agents had proposed the transaction in hopes that it would shock their superiors into realizing what they were doing in Operation Fast and Furious. Instead, a superior approved Dodson's proposal and Dodson sold six firearms to the suspect. Dodson later told investigators that he regretted delivering the firearms.
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Ping.
What is the status of F&F? Is it dead with “commander zero’s” exerting executive privilege?
That story reads like something Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote.
Truly chilling.
Wow...AP being forced to acknowledge Fast and Furious?
Maybe it is payback for the wiretaps...
After all, who is the Master, the MSM or the Obama administration?
Posted to wrong thread. My apologies.
Thanks markomalley.
That story reads like something Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote.
Truly chilling.
Posted to wrong thread. My apologies.
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But...which thread did you intend to post that on? You caught my attention.
Thanks for the ping.
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