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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (630571)10/6/2011 10:06:50 PM
From: joseffy  Read Replies (2) of 1582937
 
President Obama defends attorney general regarding ATF tactics
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October 7, 2011 | Richard A. Serrano
latimes.com

President Obama insists neither he nor Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. knew federal ATF agents were permitting illegal gun purchases on the Southwest border, even as Republican lawmakers released new documents showing the attorney general was given general briefings on the Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.

"He's indicated that he was not aware of what was happening in Fast and Furious," the president said in support of Holder, speaking at a White House news conference Thursday. "Certainly I was not. And I think both he and I would have been very unhappy if somebody had suggested that guns were allowed to pass through that could have been prevented by the United States of America."

"I have complete confidence in him," Obama said of Holder. "And I've got complete confidence in the process to figure out who, in fact, was responsible for that decision [to launch Fast and Furious] and how it got made."(continued)
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