Posted on 07/27/2011 9:39:33 AM PDT by CedarDave
WASHINGTON – A botched Justice Department plot to send guns into Mexico and trace them to drug cartels has some members of Congress, including Rep. Steve Pearce of New Mexico, suggesting Attorney General Eric Holder should resign.
“For our government to allow all these weapons to cross the border – to encourage it or maybe even set it up – that, to me, goes beyond a harebrained scheme,” Pearce told the Journal. “It’s dangerous.”
The controversial gun operation – dubbed “Operation Fast and Furious” and carried out by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives starting in 2009 – allowed firearms to illegally flow from border states south to Mexico with the intention of tracking the weapons to criminals.
Pearce, a Republican whose 2nd Congressional District includes New Mexico’s border with Mexico, said that if Holder knew about and authorized Fast and Furious, he should resign.
“It’s been mishandled, and the agency and Mr. Holder should be completely accountable to the American public to explain and get this thing out to the American public,” Pearce said.
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In addition to Pearce, other members of Congress who have suggested Holder resign include Reps. Darrell West, R-Fla., and Blake Farenthold, R- Texas.
Holder has said he didn’t learn of the Fast and Furious operation – named after a popular action movie about muscle cars – until this spring.
Meanwhile, Ronald Weich, an assistant attorney general, wro te to Grassley and Issa this month defending the agency’s cooperation in the probe. Weich wrote that the Justice Department would “reject entirely” any suggestion that it has tried to hamper the congressional inquiry.
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Either he knew from the onset and is incompetent and evil or he can't control his Dept. and should be fired for being incompetent (and evil based on past history).
It was NEVER meant to stop trafficking because the US has absolutely no authority to operate in Mexico! Mexico has already said that they knew nothing about it, so how could the US agents do anything once those guns entered Mexico?
Nixon was (virtually)impeached for less. One steenking taped door lock and he was gone. Nevermind 2500 weapons. This could at least be used to make Obie's second term grind to a halt Iran-Contra style.
Big-time ((PING)) for my congressman!
Nixon was impeached for winning 49 states when 90% of the working journalist corps voted against him. They responded by going out and "getting" him for things LBJ did routinely -- and JFK, and FDR. And J.Edgar Hoover too, for that matter.
Who is ‘Darrell West’, R-Fla.? I’d like to find individuals connected to this only for informational purposes... :)
Someday it’ll rain here in New Mexico again.
I think the article means Darrell Issa, R-CA and Allen West, R-Fla.
Rain?? Is that water from the sky??
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