House Panel Releases Scathing Report on 'Fast and Furious' Gun Operation, Sure to Anger Mexico...Hoping to score a knockout blow against the Mexican cartels, U.S. law enforcement created "Operation Fast and Furious" to stop gun smuggling by allowing the weapons into Mexico, thereby exposing the entire cartel network to prosecution, according to a new congressional report on the U.S. program. Instead, the operation was a bust, a deadly strategy that left a trail of blood and bodies throughout the Southwest, the scathing congressional report said, concluding that a reckless and irresponsible chain of command ignored repeated warnings the plan would fail.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/14/house-panel-releases-scathing-report-on-fast-and-furious-gun-operation-sure-to/#ixzz1PJcRDpDo
"This was not a program that made mistakes, this program WAS a mistake," is how committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA, describes Fast and Furious...
ReplyDeleteTo put it bluntly, the paper trail created by the program renders ridiculous Holder's claims not to have authorized Fast and Furious. He might not have "authorized" it, but evidence turned by the Issa committee makes it clear that he and a bunch of other senior Obama administration knew about it.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/06/issa-fast-and-furious-was-not-just-rogue-operation?quicktabs_1=0