Posted on 08/06/2013 6:30:43 PM PDT by Perseverando
Later denied knowing about Operation Fast and Furious
Attorney General Eric Holder has denied under oath that he had any involvement in Operation Fast & Furious and claims he only became aware of the scandal in 2011 – but newly obtained Department of Justice documents reveal Holder traveled to an April 2009 “US/Mexico Arms Trafficking Strategy Meeting” concerning gun-running between the U.S. and Mexico.
In June 2012, the Obama administration invoked executive privilege to stop disclosure of documentation to Congress following Operation Fast and Furious, a gun-walking scheme that resulted in the deaths of more than 200 people, including U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, the police chief in Hostotipaquillo, Mexico.
During the botched operation, the Justice Department’s subdivision of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms lost approximately 2,000 weapons, allowing many of them to flow freely across the U.S.-Mexico border and into the hands of members of Mexican drug cartels.
Judicial Watch obtained the latest information in a response to an August 2012 Freedom of Information Act request. According to the documents, Holder traveled to Cuernavaca and Mexico City from April 1 through April 3, 2009.
“I wanted to come to Mexico to deliver a single message: We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you in this fight against the narcotics cartels,” Holder said in his April 2 speech to the conference. “The United States shares responsibility for this problem and we will take responsibility by joining our Mexican counterparts in every step of this fight.”
Holder said the issue of “development of an arms trafficking prosecution and enforcement strategy on both sides of the border” could not be more important.
He added, “I would like to thank the Mexican and U.S.
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Gee: They have discovered Holder is a liar. What a surprise.
Now: what is going to be done about it.
Thaaaaat’s right: Nothing.
FYI
During the botched operation, the Justice Department’s subdivision of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms lost approximately 2,000 weapons, allowing many of them to flow freely across the U.S.-Mexico border and into the hands of members of Mexican drug cartels.
Baloney! Fast & Furious wasn't so-called "botched" at all: the whole point was to facilitate the transfer of firearms from U.S. gun shops to Mexican narcotics cartels, which was to accomplish two goals:
1.) Discredit gun shops and the Second Amendment generally.
2.) Deliver firearms to favored criminal organizations.
Inexplicably—unless not inexplicably at all—no one's ever followed the money the BATFE, DEA, State Department, et alia received for the firearms.
Impeachment File on Benghazi Coward “B. Hussein Obama,” formerly known as Barry Soetoro, currently a Legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
Lessay u deliberately jump off a sky-scraper with the result that you go SPLAT.
Did you BOTCH the job, yes or no..?
If your surviving friend makes the statement, “Mike jumped off a sky-scraper, but he BOTCHED the job, and now he’s dead...” how is that friend viewed by the people around him..?
Thanks Perseverando.
I've all ways believed F&F was Napolitano's idea. I think she got it from "Wide Receiver" while she was gov. of Arizona.
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