'Fast and Furious' Earlier Than He Claimed
Fox News - For the first time, documents appear to show Attorney General Eric Holder was made aware of the Operation Fast and Furious earlier than he claimed -- up to 9 nine months earlier.
The documents seem to contradict what Holder told a House Judiciary Committee on May 3, when he said he could not recall the exact date, but he'd "probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."
However, in a July 2010 memo, Michael Walther, director of the National Drug Intelligence Center, told Holder straw buyers in the Operation Fast and Furious case "are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to the Mexican drug trafficking cartels."
Documents also show, contrary to earlier reports, the Justice Department was aware that ATF agents under the department's direction were involved in the controversial practice known as "gun walking" -- allowing illicit gun sales to proceed to track the traffickers to higher-ups. The department has said it did not allow guns to "walk." When agents "let guns walk," they stop surveillance and allow criminals to transfer weapons to others. In this case, that meant allowing the guns to cross the border into Mexico.
Until now, there's been an attempt to portray Operation Fast and Furious as a rogue operation by ATF agents in Phoenix and the Arizona U.S. Attorney's Office. But insiders claim these documents show the Department of Justice in Washington was intimately aware of the case almost from the beginning.
In response to the documents released Monday, the Justice Department said Holder's response referred to when he first learned of the "troubling tactics" of the program, not the name of it. A department spokesman also says that the "gun walking" referred to in the October 2010 email exchange is about another case initiated before Operation Fast and Furious.
FOX News has reported that Holder was personally identified as being informed of the plan at least twice. One report, from 2010, states that Holder was informed of the plan.
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Blog author's comments - If the news report is accurate - it will be interesting to see how Holder and Obama slide out from under this.
Could be that there’s going to be someone thrown under the bus and the records swept under the rug. We shall see if Attorney General Eric Holder will retain his job.
Does anybody doubt that Holder did not know about 'Fast and Furious' as it was happening? The man is the head of the Justice Department and he was not informed? What did the President know, and when did he know it?
If this is true, Holder is complicit in the murders of not only a U.S. Border Agent, but of all the Mexican citizens who have been killed by the drug cartels who received these weapons.
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