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Four federal agencies were “full partners” in the Obama administration’s bungled Operation Fast and Furious, which allowed guns to wind up in the hands of Mexican drug lords, the man who implemented the program revealed today at a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

William Newell, the former head of the Phoenix field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was pressed by Rep. Pat Meehan, R-Penn. to identify all the federal agencies involved in the operation.

In response, Newell identified the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service as “full partners” with the ATF. 

The DEA and ATF are both part of the Department of Justice and ICE is part of the Department of Homeland Security.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/07/video-atf-agent-who-implemented-fast-and-furious-says-4-federal-a#ixzz1ch4D9jqT

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Newell has some integrity issues to include these statements. Last week while Republicans were grilling Janet "Incompitano" it came out that ICE had intercepted some of the Fast and Furious weapons and were told by the AUSA not to interfere with ATF. The second time that happened the SAIC for ICE went to headquarters and ICE general counsel about it. Not a sign of being in full partners to me.

I know there is some question about FBI informants with the Terry shooting, but I will have to see evidence of FBI complicity before I believe anything Newell says. This "investigation" of his was so f'd up in it's inception that I can't believe anybody from outside ATF would get near it. I can't believe the AUSA bought off on something that was this jacked up, but that is one office ATF was in "full partnership" with.