side piece.. SFgate.com site
Excerpt
9/21/12
Holder not off hook in ‘Fast and Furious’
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Holder-not-off-hook-in-Fast-and-Furious-3885047.php
It’s hard to imagine a worse-run operation than the Obama administration’s “Fast and Furious” gun-tracing scheme. To curb a flood of weapons from border gun shops into Mexico, investigators hatched a plan that hadn’t worked in the past, was poorly managed and was riddled with errors.
The scathing findings come from the Justice Department inspector general, as close to an independent voice as Washington can offer in the politically charged case. The dispute featured gun rights, drug cartels, the political fortunes of both Republicans and Democrats, and the death of border agent, slain by a gun that went missing in the bungled operation.
President Obama, asked about the report by Univision, didn’t help himself by claiming the botched operation had “begun under the previous administration,” lamely deflecting blame for the mess to former President George W. Bush.
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