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Four Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents in transcribed interviews with top GOP oversight official Darrell Issa’s office are contradicting the Justice Department’s account of “Operation Fast and Furious,” saying hundreds of weapons -– including assault rifles and military grade sniper weapons -– were allowed to escape into the clutches of Mexican drug cartels in an apparently reckless investigative strategy.

Their testimony raises the question of whether Ronald Weich, a deputy to Attorney General Eric Holder, lied to congressional investigators in a Feb. 4 letter denying the allegations. Weich is testifying before Issa’s committee Wednesday.

The four ATF agents describe how the weapons were tracked from sales at U.S. gun shops but not seized as is normal practice. The goal of the operation was to track the weapons as they progressed from the purchasers through criminal networks.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/15/four-atf-agents-contradict-justice-department-account-on-fast-and-furious/#ixzz1PLbHX3mo

Is there any way that we can blame this solely on Fartbama?

Rep. Darrell Issa has released emails that show ATF Director Kenneth Melson, who is overseen by Attorney General Eric Holder, not only knew about Operation Fast and Furious, but was being briefed on a weekly basis about the progress and was watching Cartels purchase weapons used to kill innocent people from his cozy office in Washington D.C.

-The first e-mail from March 10, 2010, to Operation Fast and Furious Group VII Leader David Voth indicates that the two most senior leaders in ATF, Acting Director Kenneth Melson, and Deputy Director Billy Hoover, were “being briefed weekly on” Operation Fast and Furious. The document shows that both Melson and Hoover were “keenly interested in case updates.”

- A second e-mail from March 12, 2010, shows that Deputy Assistant Director for Field Operations William McMahon was so excited about Fast and Furious that he received a special briefing on the program in Phoenix - scheduled for a mere 45 minutes after his plane landed.

Ok I was wondering why this was being brought up until he finally dropped Eric Holder's name. Got it.

It sounds almost as bad as the time we airlifted a crapload of money to Iraq and then somehow managed to lose track of billions in cash. At least there are some rich soldiers/contractors/Iraqis/terrorists out there somewhere.

The more than 2,000 weapons that the Obama Justice Department allowed to be delivered to Mexican narco-terrorist cartels are thought to have been used in the shooting of an estimated 150 Mexican law enforcement officers and soldiers battling the cartels. Two American law enforcement officers have also presumably fallen prey to these weapons, along with an unknown number of civilians on both sides of the border.

President Barack Obama’s Department of Justice has purposefully armed narco-terrorist drug cartels that have been accused of bombings, ambushes, mass murders, public executions, and the assassination of police, politicians, and civic leaders.

Obama’s Justice Department armed the enemy of our neighbor and ally, providing enough arms to equip ten infantry companies, or two battalions, of violent drug dealers.

Iran-Contra was a misguided attempt to trade arms for hostages and supply a covert supply of arms to rebels fighting against a communist dictatorship during the Cold War.

Gunrunner was an attempt to develop enough gun-running evidence to bring down a cartel, and instead supplied thousands of arms to drug cartels locked in a life-or-death struggle with a key U.S. ally and trading partner.

Well, you talking about it kinda disproves your theory that no one is talking about it.

No, I oppose the partisanship and rhetoric in your posts.

Rrrrrrrrright. Nothing to see here.

The Justice Dept is being dragged over the coals for this screwup, and nobody wants to give big turtle the credit for covering it? Yeah, he has a point of view many of you don't like...that's your problem.

I'd like to see a whole lot fewer hare-brained projects like this from our government at all levels. But let's just pretend they don't happen (unless a Republican comes up with them). That's a really good plan.

Sorta like O'Bumble beating his chest and telling the world that when we got Bin Laden, we had a safe house right by OBL's compound where we had observed him for several months. So the Pakistanis went to that safe house and grabbed the owner and 4 others who had helped the US and "questioned them", and you can just bet it's not by squirting Perrier up their noses. Then comes the NYT to tell the Pakistanis that there were more than 5 folks who aided the US in operation Geronimo, so nanananana

I was going to jokingly respond to this thread with "Because the media is pro-black and want to cover up the misdeeds of Holder and Nobama?" but didn't realize O'Bumble is now in style.

Pardon me.

That tag was invented in a lab in 2238 and sent back in time just for this thread.