Posted on 02/10/2012 12:43:23 PM PST by ColdOne
While criticism surrounding Operation Fast and Furious has so far focused on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, three other federal agencies knew about the operation and some of their agents tried to stop it, according to the former chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Tucson.
Tony Coulson, the DEA’s agent in charge of Southern Arizona during Fast and Furious, says many federal field agents knew the ATF was walking guns to Mexico, but supervisors told them to back off when they objected.
“Clearly, we went too far,” Coulson said. “The question we had among rank and file law enforcement was, ‘When is someone going to call ATF on this, when is someone going to tell them to stop?’”
Coulson’s remarks jibe with what is already known about the operation. The DEA, the FBI and ICE, also known as Immigration Customs and Enforcement, all played roles in the investigation.
Coulson said those agencies share the blame since top officials knew, but did little to stop, the gunrunning effort. Coulson is among the first senior public officials, current or former, who admit knowing about the botched operation.
Coulson claims he raised objections to then-DEA chief Elizabeth Kempshall
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Don’t forget that this Administration and all of its parts are communists and will overthrow our Constitutional America.
So how many were conspiring to subvert the Constitution here?
Every one of them needs to be brought up on High Treason charges. All the way to OBAMA.
Boner is covering for them now:
Botched, my @$$.
The list, Ping
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All these agencies knew of or had a part in this CF and they knew it was counterproductive and wrong. All arrows lead to Holder as the gatekeeper of wants/needs/information.
Doesn’t this remind you of the pre-Bush/Cheney years of agencies stumbling over each other? What was the result of that Huh?
Former DEA chief says 3 other federal agencies knew about Operation Fast and Furious
Rahm, Valerie....? who did the scheming.
Agree! They should get the choice of rope or fast projectiles.
The State Department had to know, but of course, this whole thing was probably Hillary’s idea.
IMHO, there is no way that FUBO wasn’t in the loop on this.
Well of the four agencies who knew, seems to me three report to the Justice Department...Seems to me somewhere that info must have flowed to the top.
BTW, the false statement statute was amended sometime ago to expand it beyond knew it was false to should have known it was false. If Holder says he did not know of this operation, he set up a wall to make sure he did not know.
Supervisors. I bet they have names don't they?
That caught my eye right off!
Holder should either name the "supervisors" who did this, detail their activities, fire and/or prosecute them or admit that he can't handle running a sidewalk lemonade stand and resign.
Somewhere there is a signature. Ping.
http://www.justf.org/files/primarydocs/120202MajorityReport.pdf
They can’t have erased/shredded everything. There are hard drives, and multiple people have copies of this and that.
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