Posted on 09/09/2011 12:13:22 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Congressional investigators reviewing the failed gun-tracking program Operation Fast and Furious have formally asked the Obama administration to turn over copies of "all records" involving three key White House national security officials and the program, other ATF gun cases in Phoenix, and all communications between the White House and the ATF field office in Arizona.
The letter signed Friday by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, was sent to National Security Advisor Thomas E. Donilon, a top aide to President Obama.
It marks a significant step in the committee's investigation into the failed gun-tracking operation, as the committee begins to broaden its investigation from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and targets White House and Department of Justice officials.
This material, Issa and Grassley said, "will enable us to determine the extent of the involvement of White House staff in Operation Fast and Furious."
White House officials, along with those at the Justice Department, said they have been cooperating in the widening probe, begun earlier this year when several ATF whistleblowers alerted congress that Fast and Furious weapons were found at the scene of the slaying of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Under the program, ATF agents allowed illegal gun purchases and hoped to track the weapons to Mexican cartel leaders. But most of the more than 2,000 firearms were lost. Hundreds have reportedly turned up in Mexican crime scenes, two at the shooting where Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed, and a semi-automatic at an altercation and assault with police in Maricopa, Az.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Shine the light on these cockroaches.
A third gun now said to have been found:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2776081/posts
lol
Welcome to The Brave New Age of Reality Politics TV!
meanwhile, ‘Big Sis’ is watching. 8-o
There, fixed it.
Shouldn’t this me moved over to breaking news? JMO. :-)
Woops, where’s the “Delete” button when I need one !
Frome everything I've read, it started in 2009. It's all Zero's baby!!
Know how you REALLY know it's all Zero's? Because the lame streamers won't touch it with a 10 foot pole!
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Seems there a a few new stories every day! That one was sent to me by an LEO buddy.
OK, so that now convincingly ropes in the FBI into this ATF matter. Both are separate division in DOJ. Looks like the pyramid is leading to the top and hopefully that point goes right up ozero’s backside.
If no one else has, why don’t you start a thread with my link in post #12?
- A program was started under Bush to investigate illegal sales and stop them.
- Under Obama it morphed into watching illegal arms sales, try to track the weapons, and hope the guns don't hurt any of us once they get out of sight.
Don't have the link handy; someone else may have more background ready.
Only Democrats could come up with “fast and furious”. It’s the Dumbest idea alive! Fire them then throw them in prison!
> Ping
Website scrubbing underway!
Check out article and comments, # 31 too.
I'd like to see someone link the FBI's behavior here with yesterday's raiding of Solyndra offices in Fremont, CA.
It would be a Big Deal of Holder's Justice Department has turned the FBI into Obama's private Plumbers service.
-PJ
Yes, I just scanned Issa’s report and the first sentence says it started in Fall of 2009.
A third gun now said to have been found:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2776081/posts
Read my post #35.
The LA Times is going to be happy you do not consider them “left wing”.
I can hear the whirr of shredding machines even in NJ!
See url in post #16 for long thread on article.
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