Posted on 12/03/2011 8:16:57 AM PST by Mr. K
Under fire for losing track of weapons that turned up at crime scenes along the Southwest border, the Justice Department has taken the extraordinary step of formally withdrawing an inaccurate letter about the episode that it sent to Congress earlier this year.
Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole sent nearly 1,400 pages of emails and other documents to Capitol Hill late Friday afternoon that lay bare the raw and sometimes cringe-worthy process by which the letter was drafted. The materials contain clues into how misleading information about the botched gun trafficking operation made it into a Feb. 4, 2011 letter to Congress that department leaders have since acknowledged was false.
Misleading Congress can be a prosecutable offense if a person who makes the statements knows they are false. But Attorney General Eric Holder has told lawmakers that so far he has no evidence anyone intended to deceive them. The matter remains under investigation not only by Republicans in Congress but also the Justice Department's inspector general.
The February 2011 letter said that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives makes "every effort" to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally before they cross into Mexico. It added that the allegation that the ATF had "sanctioned or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons" to suspicious people was false
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(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
you can lie to Congress then 'withdraw' it?? (when the truth comes out)
Sorry... no takesy-backsies
I still guess that one of the local Sheriffs could file a criminal complaint against the alphabet soup Fed Agencies up to their eyeballs in this.
If they were Republicans, the whole freaking Department would be under indictment, all the way up to the President.
Holder: “I’m gonna take a Mulligan!”
Mark
The tables will turn in 2012 and we can put these people behind bars, if that is possible.
Opps we got Caught lieing.
Err let me take that one back here is what really happened.
Send them to Jail.
“Under fire for losing track of weapons that turned up at crime scenes along the Southwest border,...”
The whole article by NPR(liberal mouthpiece)and the DOJ (Dept. of “Just-us” ) justifying this “Fast and Furious” is a lie ~ there NEVER was an attmept to follow the guns !!
In fact , agents were told by their superiors to : “ Stand Down”
Also , there was NO NOTIFICATION to Mexican authorities
Furthermore , the Department of Justice has “sealed the record” ~ another cover up !
And another thing; when the hell will the MSM stop calling this a "botched" operation. The only thing botched about it was and is the cover-up otherwise it was going quite swimmingly!
I think we’re talking about an even bigger picture than just trying to get rid of the US’s 2nd Amendment. We may be talking about infiltrating US law enforcement with actors in the world communist movement. An interesting comment from over there:
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Anonymous
Now MarcH, what part of Fast and Furious was NOT implemented by your Brothers in Blue? Was it not THEY who told the gun dealers to sell those weapons to the suspected straw buyers? Was it not THEY who provided the stimulus funds to purchase those weapons FROM the straw buyers? Was it not THEY who let the vehicles carrying those weapons across the border pass without inspection? Was it not THEY who disposed of the third gun found at the murder scene? Was it not THEY calling the murder of Agent Terry “collateral damage”? Heck, was it not THEY going to the gun dealers and buying weapons they KNEW would be smuggled across the border, merely because their supervisor gave them a signed note telling them to do it?
And that’s merely Fast and Furious out of the Phoenix area. How about Castaway run out of the Tampa Field Division of BATFE? Running guns to supporters of former president Zelaya in Honduras? With the help of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, and the Miami-Dade Police Department? And HOW MANY OTHERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY???
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2815172/posts
Where’s “America’s Sheriff” Joe Arpaio on Fast and Furious?
...after telling reporters he was too busy arresting people to discuss “Fast and Furious,” we asked the sheriff if he would be at Babeu’s presser. Arpaio told New Times he hadn’t yet heard of Babeu’s press conference.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/10/joe_arpaio_either_forgot_he_wa.php
btw - do you remember when Bush fired some people in some travel office and they gave the whole incident an anal exam, twice? If people do not see the double standard now, they never will.
Anybody with small children in the house—or children being educated in the public school system —ought recognize the
syndrom.first the small child tells a Lie -predictably what they think the adult wants to hear. when they perceive that the LIE did not satisfy then they take it back and try again. The game closes when the child tells a consistent and verifiable truth —or the parent gives up in distress teaching the child it’s ok to lie.DOJ needs to hear the snap of a belt -the signal my father used to telegraph he was in his no nonsense will be tolerated mood.
Didn't you know? Democrats, especially this administration, are allowed do-overs. If at first you don't lie correctly, try, try again.
embarrassing......
Usually you have to be an ILLEGAL alien to qualify for this but I guess DOJ can qualify also.
Just think how things will be when current administration is reelected despite overt lawlessness...
All hail the anointed one!
Something to look forward to...
While your response mocking with a childish tone is spot-on, I think this administration uses golfing metaphors.
It's the Mulligan Administration.
-PJ
The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal.
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