Posted on 07/26/2011 7:14:09 AM PDT by Mozilla
The Obama administration sought to intimidate witnesses into not testifying to Congress on Tuesday about whether ATF knowingly allowed weapons, including assault rifles, to be “walked” into Mexico, the chairman of a House committee investigating the program said in an interview Monday.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, said at least two scheduled witnesses expected to be asked about a controversial weapons investigation known as “Fast and Furious”received warning letters from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to limit their testimony.
Mr. Issa's committee is set to hear testimony from six current or former ATF employees, including agents and attaches assigned to the bureau’s offices in Mexico, about the operation — in which, federal agents say, they were told to stand down and watch as guns flowed from U.S. dealers in Arizona to violent criminals and drug cartels in Mexico.
Among other questions, the agents are likely to be asked about a large volume of guns showing up in Mexico that were traced back to the Fast and Furious program; whether ATF officials in that country expressed concerns about the weapons to agency officials in the U.S., only to be brushed aside; and whether ATF officials in Arizona denied ATF personnel in Mexico access to information about the operation.
Nearly 50 weapons linked to the Fast and Furious program have been recovered to date in Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Witness tampering is a crime that should get Obama is trouble. But nobody has a spine to call him under the carpet yet. I’m hoping Issa is the guy to go after him and call for impeachment. Wouldn’t shock me to learn that the Obama administration is tampering with evidence as well. These were the same tactics they used in the black panther voter intimdation case. Obama wants desperately to get away with doing whatever he wants and it seems to me that he is going great lengths to hide just about everything he is up to behind closed doors.
Witness tampering is so... Clintonian.
When one has no clue or care of the ramifications of what he's doing, he should expect the worst.
Newell was just asked by Burton where the records and documentation was of all these weapons being sold. Newell had a sudden attack of stupid.
They are nailing Newell’s butt to the wall.... he is an idiot!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Fox news streaming is blocked at work due to heavy bandwidth.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Fox news streaming is blocked at work due to heavy bandwidth.
if you have a smartphone there is a cspan radio app that you can download and listen
Mr. Gowdy is kicking Newells ass. Newell needs firing now. Hell, this is CRJU 101 type questions and statements.
He is. Newell is slimy and is not a good face for BATF. This is amazing!
I have an Iphone...Ill check it out....thanks
Mr. Gowdy: If Mexican criminal justice requested that we extradited ATF officials that allowed straw purchasers to send guns to criminals in Mexics what would your reaction be? (my paraphrase)
Agent Newell: uh, uh, uh,.....
OUCH
no doubt, we must remove the cancer...take away all federal rights to raise money, no taxes, nada, all states should have balanced budget amendments and it should be up to the states what they want to allow the federal g to get..I doubt 1/10 of the money we spend gets where it was allocated to..
0bama knows that Congress would never have the nerve to impeach him, or even to hold hearings where he is accused of wrong doing. He has an impenetrable melanin based impeachment shield.
its the right price too.... free! LOL
Does being half black mean you can’t be impeached?
According to the article, the above was written in an e~mail from an ATF Supervisor to ATF agents who were complaining about the operation. Something tells me this guy was either at WACO or really mad he wasn't. De-fund BATFE, NOW.
...Interesting point about Waco, another debacle. Will we find out what really happened there, besides a BBQ...
the ‘rats on the committee are desperate to make this about gun control and ignoring the real issue.... gawd they are stupid.
Looks like the Dept. of Just Us and maybe the White house itself might be giving these two idiots marching orders to obstruct Congress and hope for a Pardon from the POTUS.
....but that is just my observation.
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