Posted on 07/07/2011 7:40:58 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
The Justice Department is obstructing the congressional investigation of a U.S. law enforcement operation intended to crack down on major weapons traffickers on the Southwest border, according to the embattled leader of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Ken Melson, the acting director of the ATF, lobbed the accusation when he sneaked in for an interview with congressional investigators on July 4, two days ahead of his scheduled interview with the inspector general about the operation known as "Fast and Furious," Fox News has learned.
"If his account is accurate, then ATF leadership appears to have been effectively muzzled while the DOJ sent over false denials and buried its head in the sand," Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Eric Holder. "That approach distorted the truth and obstructed our investigation."
The Justice Department is reportedly looking to oust Melson, who has been acting ATF director since April 2009, as the agency deals with its biggest scandal in nearly two decades. Andrew Traver, who was tapped in November by President Obama to become the permanent ATF director, could be named as acting director until the Senate acts on his nomination, sources have said.
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ALL the conservative talk show hosts should be dedicating their entire shows over this instead of Casey Anthony and how the Republicans cannot seem to take a four aces and a king and beat a pair of deuces.
Don’t complain about how incompetent the Republicans are. We all KNOW that the Republican leadership has the balls of a mouse. Tell the world how the president may have been involved in an ILLEGAL operation to smuggle guns across the Mexican border into the hands of murderous drug dealers and how at least two US agents and unknown Mexican citizens have been murdered by drug gang members with Obama’s guns.
Impeach, now!!
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