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A review of press releases issued by the Department of Homeland Security, the latest being filed Sunday and dealing with DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s visit to Staten Island for a Hurricane Sandy follow-up, reveals the department is crediting itself with all kinds of activities and accomplishments except for its commitment to produce an Inspector General report on Fast and Furious gunwalking independent of the Department of Justice report released in September. A review of the DHS OIG press releases on its website, with the latest filing also being yesterday, also does not mention such a report. The second IG investigation...

The chairman of a House committee investigating the Fast and Furious gunrunning operation praised a report by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General on what went wrong in the bungled investigation but said more people involved need to lose their jobs. Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, who heads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Thursday described the 471-page report by Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz as “extremely comprehensive, strong and independent,” adding that it confirms what the panel knew for some time: “The Department of Justice has let the American people down.” Mr. Issa called the...

Document List Cited in Complaint at link: October 11, 2011 Subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder Letter from Sen. Charles Grassley to Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson (Jan. 27, 2011) Letter from Sen. Charles Grassley to Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson (Jan. 31, 2011) Letter from Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich to Sen. Charles Grassley (Feb. 4, 2011) Letter from Rep. Darrell Issa to Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson (Mar. 16, 2011) Letter from Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich to Rep. Darrell Issa (Apr. 19, 2011) Letter from Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich to Sen. Charles Grassley (May 2, 2011)...

This is perhaps the worst case of agenda driven reporting I’ve seen. Fortune’s Katherine Eban, a leftwing shrill for Obama who writes for several leftwing rags such as Variety, published this “blockbuster investigative report” that she claims shows that Fast and Furious never happened.The problem is that the report is a hack job of the first order and flies in the face of numerous other reports to the contrary. A spokesman for Issa’s committee nails it. “Fortune’s story is a fantasy made up almost entirely from the accounts of individuals involved in the reckless tactics that took place in Operation...