Posted on 01/30/2012 10:16:33 PM PST by neverdem
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Tuesday are expected to publish a report on the disputed gun trafficking investigation called Operation Fast and Furious, concluding that agents in Arizona — not Obama administration officials — were responsible for the tactics used in the inquiry and for providing misleading information relayed to Congress.
In an 89-page report, titled “Fatally Flawed: Five Years of Gun-walking in Arizona,” the Democratic staff portrays Fast and Furious as the fourth investigation, dating back to 2006, in which Arizona-based agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives employed the tactic “gun-walking” — failing to interdict illegally purchased guns in an attempt to build a bigger case.
“This report debunks many unsubstantiated conspiracy theories,” Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, wrote in a cover letter. “Contrary to repeated claims by some, the committee has obtained no evidence that Operation Fast and Furious was a politically motivated operation conceived and directed by high-level Obama administration political appointees at the Department of Justice.”
Still, because the report was written by Democrats, the political impact of its conclusion exonerating high-level officials of wrongdoing may be limited. Its publication comes two days before Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is to testify before the committee. In previous hearings, Republicans have accused the department of sanctioning the tactics and lying to Congress.
In Fast and Furious, which ran from late 2009 to early 2011, A.T.F. officials lost track of about 2,000 guns purchased by suspected “straw buyers.” Many weapons are believed to have reached a Mexican drug cartel. Two guns linked to the investigation were found at the site of a shootout in which a Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, was killed.
Congressional Republicans — led by Representative Darrell Issa of California, the...
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You have a good ida. I will be waiting for it to happen-—————waiting a long time I am afraid.
Can you or somebody make this easier to read and put it on imageshack and all over the web?
http://issues.oversight.house.gov/fastandfurious/KeyPlayers.pdf
He few off to Davos recently for some type of meeting.
If I was a liberal, I’d be laughing, smiling and flipping everyone the bird too.
Once again the liberal elite are absolving themselves of any wrongdoing.
And they’re going to get away with it.
And they’re going to be called heroes...by the very people who claim to be most vehemently opposed to the very type of lawbreaking they’re getting away with.
This is so much bigger than Watergate...and it continues to grow...
Hmmm....let’s see now....
Top Cop Dem gets caught with his crank in his hand, implicated in a conspiracy that is aimed directly at undermining American citizens’ Constitutional rights and results in the murder of two US Border Patrol agents and countless Mexican nationals...
Top Cop Dem lies, denies, shucks and jives on the stand...
Top Cop Dem instructs his people to obfuscate, block, impede, and otherwise obstruct the lawful investigation...
Top Dems circle the wagons and find nothing wrong.
Yeah. That’s about right.
To all US Law Enforcement officers, ay all levels:
A couple of YOUR brothers in blue have been murdered by these people, and they’re spitting in your faces.
You gonna do anything? ....crickets....wind....
I thought so.
“To protect and serve”, Cute phrase... evidently it means nothing except “to protect and serve our own interests.”
Honor is dead.
i thought the old phrase was 'NO honor among thieves' ???
remove the shades of grey, and we're left with an ideology thatll gas millions to achieve their goals...
a couple of *only ones* getting dead is a mere instance of collateral damage in the *progress* of the agenda...
and still, our *reps* hold their fire and continue to play games in a life and death struggle...
go figure...
Well, isn’t that special?
“...thatll gas millions to achieve their goals....”
Hey brother...
This isn’t Europe. They’ll find it very difficult, and incredibly painful personally if they try that crap here.
That’s not to say they wouldn’t try it out of sheer stupidity...these ARE Democrats, after all.
And those “onliest ones” should take a good, long, hard look in a mirror once in a while and remember what that shiny little badge is supposed to represent.
If they’re not going to honor their oath, then don’t take the oath.
As far as our “representatives” go...they’re representing SOMETHING, but it sure as hell ain’t us...
God bless Darryl Issa. At least he had the balls to bring it to the sunlight.
But he’s a man alone amongst spineless cowards it seems.
I wish I could muster up the incentive to comment with sarcasm or a humorous anecdote, but this abomination actually makes me physically sick.
I pray this isn’t the end of this issue. Holder and probably obama have to be cited for their complicit actions in this bizzare attempt to destroy the second amendment, while in the process, causing the death of a citizen of our nation.
If they aren’t held accountable, I have little faith that democrats will be held accountable for any wrong doing in the future.
EODGUY
I think when the state-controlled dinomedia doesn’t want to cover you, you can hold all the press conferences you want, but nobody shows up.
A DEMOCRAT report? These days....completely WORTHLESS.
well, its not worth getting angry about... </s>
Well, if the House RATS say everything is okay, that settles it.
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