Well, the Assistant Attorney General SHOULD know who authorized it and who ordered it etc... Otherwise he is not doing his job.
Something sure does stink here and I don’t think it is soley about using this deal politically to enact new restrictive gun laws.
Somebody is getting kickbacks from the drug cartels. Somebody high up imho.
Ron Weich was nominated by President Obama to serve as the Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs in March 2009 and confirmed by the Senate the following month. Mr. Weich heads the Office that represents the Department of Justice on all legislative and oversight matters before Congress.
Immediately prior to assuming his current position, Weich served as Chief Counsel to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He earlier served as counsel to Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Arlen Specter. Prior to joining Senator Reid’s staff in January 2005, Weich was a partner in the law firm of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP. He began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in New York City.
Weich, a native New Yorker, is a graduate of Columbia University and the Yale Law