Matthew Boyle,The Daily Caller
New details about Operation Fast and Furious cast doubt on the ability of the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General to conduct an “independent” and fair investigation,congressional Republican investigators say.
The information comes via a letter Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday. In it,they question a request from Holder for a transcript from a meeting they held in secret on July 4th with Ken Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives.
Holder apparently told Issa and Grassley he was requesting the transcript for the DOJ and for the Office of the Inspector General — the entity that’s supposed to be distinct enough from Holder’s office to conduct a fair Operation Fast and Furious investigation.
Holder and other DOJ officials have repeatedly said the DOJ’s Inspector General is conducting its own internal investigation into what went wrong with Fast and Furious. Even so,Holder’s latest request on behalf of the OIG sparks skepticism from investigators in Congress.
“Since the OIG is supposed to be conducting an independent inquiry,it seems odd that the Department would make a document request on behalf of that office,” Grassley and Issa wrote to Holder on Tuesday. “We presume that if the OIG would like to make such a request,it is capable of doing so on its own initiative. However,we have not received any such request from the OIG.”
In their Tuesday letter,Grassley and Issa also ask Holder to provide complete and full answers to all of the questions they sent him on July 22. Issa and Grassley say Holder failed to do so in his most recent response.
They say “perhaps the most troubling reply” Holder gave them was that the ATF did not have detailed information available on 11 instances ATF admits being aware of that Fast and Furious weapons were recovered inside the United States in “connection with violent crimes.”
Holder seems to have his hands in a lot of secert things >>He needs to answer a lot Of Questions About those guns getting into the wrong hands!!!!!!
An investigation into what went wrong? How about the possibility that it is not only counterproductive,but positively asinine to promote a policy that allows criminals to be armed. I would submit that it is a bad plan to arm the enemy that you are in conflict with particularly when you know they are going to use the firearms to(drumroll please),commit violent crimes against the citizens of your country that you are sworn to protect. Does this seem profoundly incompetent,irresponsible and criminally negligent to anyone else following the Issa investigation? Now Holder and the ATF want to put the brakes on this inquiry because the wheels are coming off the Socialist spin of this brainless stunt. On top of this,ATF continually harrasses law abiding gun dealers and law abiding gun owners non-stop to the delight of their pro-civilian disarmament masters. The thing that really blows me away is that our tax dollars fund this sham. That is as criminal as sending U.S. ICE agents into Mexico UNARMED and seeing them murdered by cartel scum using U.S. firearms procured through "Fast and Furious". This is just another example of the type of crimes that become commonplace when you have a Marxist administration in power. To achieve their ultimate restructuring goals they must disarm the U.S. civilian population.I would encourage anyone concerned with the future of this country to join the NRA and fight tenaciously to preserve our 2nd amendment rights and the entire Constitution;as well as learn about the proposed U.N. Small Arms Treaty. Do the right thing,be a patriot!
Evidently,the DOJ,especially under E. Holder,is a criminal enterprise on the run.
I predict that a day of reckoning will see many lawyers arrested,indicted,convicted and imprisoned forever;opps,I was dreaming…
The Obomanations Chief INjustice Holder investigate an accusation against the Obamaination Administration!!! Now that had to have been meant to be a joke! He would investigate that as throughly as he investyigated Obama's birth certificate which even a fool can see is a fraud.