From 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."
Also, on October 18, 2010, one of Holder's chief deputies, Lanny Breuer, chief of the department's Criminal Division, told Holder in a memo that prosecutors were ready to issue indictments in Operation Fast and Furious.
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. It is a highly controversial practice agents typically are taught not to do.
However, in an October 17, 2010 memo, Deputy Attorney General Jason Weinstein asks another attorney in the Criminal Division if Breuer should do a press conference when Fast and Furious is announced, but says, "It's a tricky case, given the number of guns that have walked."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/03/documents-suggest-holder-knew-about-fast-and-furious-earlier-than-claimed/#ixzz1WxO5qBvp
Why Eric Holder still has a job is beyond me, especially since a Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry ( http://www.odmp.org/officer/20596-border-patrol-agent-brian-a-terry ) was killed as a direct result of Fast and Furious.
The longer this case goes on, the worse it will be, especially in the election season.
You can argue that Bill Clinton should not have been impeached because the sex was consensual and the lie didn't reallyh hurt anyone.
Well, if Clinton got impeached for that, how can you not be impeached when the actions of your administration and quite possibly yourself ended up in killing a United States police officer?
Obama needs to come clean and the media, besides Fox News, needs to investigate this case and report on it fairly.
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