Cornyn urging wider probe of ‘Fast and Furious’ (ANOTHER SHOE DROPS!)

wash times ^ | 10/25/2011 | jerry seper

[milwguy]

Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Darrell E. Issa on Monday to expand their formal “Fast and Furious” investigation to include accusations that similar gunrunning probes took place in Texas.

Mr. Cornyn said he asked U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in August to address the “scope and details of any past or present ATF gun-walking programs” in his home state, but never got a response.

“Though their failure to respond is not direct evidence of malfeasance, the department’s reluctance to address allegations of additional ‘gun-walking’ schemes in my state raises serious questions, and Texans deserve a full accounting of the department’s role in this matter,” he wrote.

Mr. Cornyn, a former Texas attorney general, said Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “gun-walking” schemes have had significant “spillover effects” in Texas. In two separate incidents in January and April 2010, 60 rifles that were “walked” during the Fast and Furious operation were recovered from criminals in El Paso, Texas.

He said the attorney for a federal firearms licensee (FFL) in Houston has charged that his employees were ordered by ATF to conduct suspicious sales of firearms to purchasers who may have been working on behalf of Mexican drug cartels.

Last December, he said, the Justice Department convened a grand jury to investigate whether several salespersons at the Houston gun dealers were criminally liable for selling weapons to straw purchasers. The investigation, he said, was dropped only after the licensed firearms dealers revealed that the illicit sales were carried out at the behest of the ATF.

[milwguy]

First we have agent Terry killed by a F&F gub from Arizona, now we have Agent Zapata killed by a Texas F&F gun. The rot in our gov't is much wider and deeper than imagined. Holder and Obama and Clinton need to be held to account. The people demand answers and we all need to pressure our elected reps to keep the pressure onthem to keep digging and then cut the rot out no matter how deep it is or high it goes.

[thouworm]

FF ping

[bestintxas]

The more they can delay, the better liklihood that Holder and others in Justice can get Obama to pardon them at the end of his term next year.

Delay is what they need, badly.

[Paladin2]

It makes one wonder about Johnny Sutton’s tenure in TX.

[TexasFreeper2009]

When I heard someone in congress was asking for a wider probe, I just assumed it was Barney Frank ;)

[ken21]

do the pubies have the balls to take on holder and obama?

or, is this just for show? to say we did something?

[Real Cynic No More]

The more THEY can delay, the better liklihood that HOLDER and others in Justice can get OBAMA to pardon THEM at the end of HIS term next year.

If THEY had only honestly and openly responded when this first came up, and admitted that THEY made mistakes that THEY wouldn't make again, it would have blown over by now. By waiting as long as THEY have, THEY'VE almost guaranteed that it will be a signficant election year issue that OBAMA will not be able to escape.

[onyx]

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[MestaMachine]

“In two separate incidents in January and April 2010, 60 rifles that were “walked” during the Fast and Furious operation were recovered from criminals in El Paso, Texas.”

“It’s a mess, ain’t it, Sheriff?”
“If it ain’t, it’ll do till the mess gets here.”

(No Country for Old Men)

[Nachum]

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[ExTexasRedhead]

You mean like Nixon and Watergate? Guess how that turned out?

[tutstar]

Bump

[gaijin]

There have been some lies about the Zapata killing; they say, “Ah, sure, they saw his fancy SUV and mistook him for a rival gang...”

That’s close, but not QUITE true. And that story is plausible and convenient and it is WRONG:

Non-Sinaloa cartels heard about the secret USA-Sinaloa, “no busts in return for intel on rival cartels”-arrangement. Thus they viewed US agents as de-facto members of the Sinaloa Cartel and therefore fair game (b4 killing US agents was taboo).

And so they killed our guy.

Did u realize that apparently WE are now in the Sinaloa Cartel? Change, yup....

[BuckeyeTexan]

I think when ya quit hearin’ “yes, sir” and “no, sir” it’s all downhill from there.

[urtax$@work]

Delay is what they need, badly.

Then they already have it.

[cpdiii]

He said the attorney for a federal firearms licensee (FFL) in Houston has charged that his employees were ordered by ATF to conduct suspicious sales of firearms to purchasers who may have been working on behalf of Mexican drug cartels.

Holder and company have been passing this off as a local issue in ATF Phoenix office. If this is true, why did ATF in Texas start a Fast And Furious operation also.

This came from the top down. It started with either Obama or Holder, but more likely both together.

[GOPJ]

...employees were ordered by ATF to conduct suspicious sales of firearms to purchasers who may have been working on behalf of Mexican drug cartels.

My guess is that people WANT to talk - it's just a question of them feeling safe - and of 'the good guys' asking the right open questions...