To: Carolyn who wrote (6 ) 11/2/2011 7:36:20 PM From: joseffy Read Replies (1) | Respond to Gunwalker: Lanny Breuer Fails to Take Pressure off Eric Holder An attempt to turn Breuer into the fall guy for the attorney general seems to have failed. Bob Owens November 2, 2011 pjmedia.com attempt to arm the Sinaloa cartel with the kind of firearms that President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and other key administration figures and allies in the Democratic Party have desired to ban for years.29 members are now demanding it, with 12 additions on Monday. The group shares the belief that Holder was being deceptive in his May 3 testimony when he claimed he had only recently heard of Operation Fast and Furious. Documentation shows that he was sent reports about the operation on at least five occasions, and emails show that his top staffers were intimately aware of the inner workings of the gunwalking plot.gunwalking operations in five states that may have sent tens of thousands of weapons into the hands of criminals on both sides of the border.There are 652 pages of documents that our investigators will scour over the next several days, beyond the few that the Justice Department pointed out. At first glance, though, the documents indicate that contrary to previous denials by the Justice Department, the criminal division has a great deal of culpability in sweeping the previous Wide Receiver strategy under the rug and then allowing the subsequent Operation Fast and Furious to continue without asking key questions. Grassley followed up Tuesday with documentation that seems to prove the DOJ was lying when they claimed they learned about the practice of gunwalking only after Agent Terry was killed. Justice employees were discussing gunwalking that occurred in Operation Wide Receiver as early as March of 2010.Hot Air :Congress reacted yesterday by pointing out just how far the DOJ has come since the House decided to probe the matter. Earlier this year, Justice sent a memo to investigators claiming that allegations of gunwalking were “false.” Now we have Breuer not only admitting that it occurred, but that he knew about it more than a year before Justice’s memo to Congress . That will have some in the House looking for blood when hearings resume on Fast and Furious.the White House got extensively briefed on the matter directly from the Phoenix office. Are we to believe that Breuer didn’t get asked about this from above, or that the White House wouldn’t have asked Holder about an operation conducted in his own fiefdom? It seems unlikely that the buck stopped at Breuer’s desk, especially given the international implications of gunwalking across the border. The evidence is mounting against DOJ, DHS, and the White House, and things only got worse when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that her department was not alerted to Operation Fast and Furious. This means that the Arms Export Control Act was morel than likely violated, and strongly suggests that the administration committed thousands of felony violations of the act in addition to the other laws that may have been broken.
