Posted on 11/10/2011 9:22:33 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Documents released last week by the Department of Justice provide evidence that, in April of 2010, key Department officials discussed COVERING UP details of the 2007 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Operation Wide Receiver in order to prevent further erosion of confidence in the ATF.
Emails exchanged between Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer make it clear that, at the time, both DOJ officials were more concerned with preserving the reputation of the ATF than smearing that of the Bush Administration.
This finding puts in obvious question Breuer’s November 1st testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in which he stated he wished he had “…alerted the deputy or the attorney general at the time…” about Wide Receiver’s loss of some 350 weapons across the Mexican border.
Over the past month, the Obama Administration has used the embarrassment of Wide Receiver to link the very notion of “gun walking” with the Bush ATF and thereby relieve some of the Fast and Furious pressure House and Senate committee hearings have brought to bear on the Obama DOJ and entities such as the ATF, FBI and DHS.
Yet in early 2010 the Obama Justice Department was willing to forgo the oft employed tactic of “blame Bush” in order to provide cover for the ATF, a bureau which was even then KNOWN to be illegally facilitating the transport of large numbers of weapons into Mexico once again!
On April 28th, 2010, Weinstein emailed Breuer: “we all think the best move is to indict both Wide Receiver I and Wide Receiver II under seal and then unseal as part of Project Deliverance, where focus will be on aggregate seizures and not on particulars of any one indictment.”
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Note that in 2007 the DEMS were in charge of Congress.
So they were trying to protect Bush.
That isn’t even funny.
That’s the lamest excuse I ever heard.
In other words he is saying "I wish I had done more".
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