Posted on 08/27/2012 4:59:57 PM PDT by Nachum
From CBS News:
The Inspector General (IG) draft report on Fast and Furious heaps blame on the Phoenix-based staff of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) according to those familiar with the document.
Those familiar with the contents say ATF Phoenix officials shoulder much blame, including then-Special Agent in Charge Bill Newell, the lead Fast and Furious case agent Hope MacAllister, and group supervisor David Voth.
Since the controversy was first exposed, a divide has developed between the ATF staff in Phoenix who oversaw and implemented Fast and Furious; and their supervisors at ATF headquarters and the Justice Department. The Phoenix officials say higher-ups approved of the case. But the higher-ups say it was all the brainchild of rogue ATF officials in Phoenix.
Phoenix ATF officials tell CBS News that higher-level officials were integral in shifting focus away from arresting ground level gun buyers, to “a cartel focused strategy” that allowed guns hit the streets in an attempt to make a bigger case. They say the idea was codified in the September 2010 ATF document “Project Gunrunner-A Cartel Focused Strategy.” The document refers to using the tactic of “limited or delayed interdiction” of guns, while cautioning that such investigations “must be closely monitored.”
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Of course the higher ups knew. You don’t run an operation that big without the higher ups knowing.
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If the little fish are indeed guilty of going rogue as the big fish claim, the big fish are required to file charges against the little fish. There have obviously (according the report) been lines crossed and laws broken.
If the big fish do not follow thru after this report, one would have to wonder if maybe they have something to hide.
Here’s hoping the little fish have proof stashed away.
The IOnspecter general reports what Obama tells them to report.
They still remember when Obama fired another Inspecter General.
Oh!!! That was against the law too.
To say that locals drove this would be like saying that the 82nd Airborne took America into WWII.
The claim is absurd on its face.
Multi-state, multi-agency operations are run out of DOJ HQ in DC.
It’s like claiming that an Army unit in California somehow got the Marines, Navy and USCG all to invade Florida.
The Pentagon was just out of the loop, and had no idea.
” The claim is absurd on its face.
Multi-state, multi-agency operations are run out of DOJ HQ in DC.”
Yeah....it took me a minute to stop laughing on this one.
The smoking gun is that President "Above my pay grade" Obama cited Executive Privilege to keep Eric Holder from having to testify about what the Justice Department knew about this case. Their bloody fingerprints are all over it.
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