Friday’s are fun when you are a politics watcher, usually something embarrassing or just meant to be done on the QT is released on Fri afternoons.
by Carrie Johnson
Under fire for losing track of weapons that turned up at crime scenes along the Southwest border, the Justice Department has taken the extraordinary step of formally withdrawing an inaccurate letter about the episode that it sent to Congress earlier this year.
Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole sent nearly 1,400 pages of emails and other documents to Capitol Hill late Friday afternoon that lay bare the raw and sometimes cringe-worthy process by which the letter was drafted. The materials contain clues into how misleading information about the botched gun trafficking operation made it into a Feb. 4, 2011 letter to Congress that department leaders have since acknowledged was false.
The guns didn’t end up in criminal hands because we “lost track of them.” They were intentionally put into those hands by direct action of our government’s agents. Gun stores tried to reject sales and were forced to complete them at the direction of the US government.
It was not a “botched operation.” It was functioning just like it was planned to operate. The only thing that got “botched” was that they got caught red handed playing this game before they could use it to political advantage.
Holder and Obama are complicit in the murder of that agent.
THE RULE OF LAW
They think they are so fucking smart they can just sweep this under the rug and lie to everyone about it…well, news for you pal, this isn’t a fucking Solyndra kickback scheme, this was a deliberate attack on the 2nd amendment, nothing more, nothing less.
More nuggets and believe me, we all now know who was reckless and despicable:
Over the course of the letter being prepared, Burke vehemently argued the department should more vigorously deny the allegations.
“What is so offensive about this whole project is that Grassley’s staff, acting as willing stooges for the Gun Lobby, have attempted to distract from the incredible success in dismantling gun trafficking operations … but, instead, lobbing this reckless despicable accusation that ATF is complicit in the murder of a fellow federal law enforcement officer,” he wrote in a Feb. 4 email.
“Well said Dennis. Thank you!” Hoover replied.
However, guns found at the scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder were eventually connected to the Fast and Furious operation.
On March 24, 2009, David Ogden, who was Deputy Attorney General at the time, announced new efforts with Project Gunrunner “as directed by the president.” Ogden says he and Attorney General Eric Holder are taking "several new and aggressive steps
as part of the administration’s comprehensive plan."