New Fast and Furious details indicate gov’t cover-up, White House involvement... The heated Congressional investigation into the botched Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives program Operation Fast and Furious reached a whole new level on Friday. New emails obtained by the Los Angeles Times appear to show senior Obama administration and White House officials were briefed on the gun-walking operation. The three White House officials implicated by the LA Times’ reporting are Kevin M. O’Reilly, the director of North American Affairs for the White House national security staff; Dan Restrepo, the president’s senior Latin American advisor; and Greg Gatjanis, a White House national security official. The emails were sent between July 2010 and February 2011, before the scandalous ATF program was exposed, according the LA Times. The LA Times says a senior administration official denies that the emails which lead Fast and Furious ATF agent William Newell sent to O’Reilly — who later briefed Restrepo and Gatjanis –included details on “investigative tactics” used in the program. By “investigative tactics,” the White House means how ATF agents facilitated the sale of firearms to drug cartels via “straw purchasers,” or people who could legally buy guns in the U.S. but did so with the intention of selling them to individuals who would traffic them to Mexico. Those emails apparently show Newell and O’Reilly discussing how the program was affecting Mexico. Another explosive new detail that emerged on Thursday was a set of documents showing senior officials in Phoenix attempting to cover up a connection between Fast and Furious weapons and U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s death. In a letter sent to Ann Scheel, the new acting U.S. Attorney for Arizona, House Oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote that high-ranking Phoenix officials tried to “prevent the connection [between Terry’s death and Fast and Furious weapons] from being disclosed.” Internal emails also show that recently resigned Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke and his deputy Emory Hurley made the decision because “this way we do not divulge our current case (Fast and Furious) or the Border Patrol shooting case.” Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/02/n...ver-up-white-house-involvement/#ixzz1WuWEt1Q6 www.drudgereport.com
Yea who knows how many innocent men,women,and children were murdered with these weapons. We know an American Border Patrol Agent was murdered with these weapons. Holder has a whole lot of blood on his hands. He needs to be held accountable.
Well, fast and furious weapons have been found at about 12 separate crime scenes, and at several crimes scenes here in the States. I refuse to believe that those above the ATF leadership were kept in the dark about this. I also refuse to believe that someone actually thought it was a good idea to "walk" lethal weaponry across another nations border. We'll probably get the full story long after the Obama regime ends.
Holder has to go. Too much blood on his hands to continue on as Attorney General. He has to go. Period,end of story.
And if a Republican was in there right now,the CNN,NBC,and NY Times loons would be screeching for immediate Impeachment over this. So shame on them for staying so quiet and covering for their Democrats. I don't know how they can live with themselves.
