Issagate

[Wonky Pundit]

So was the most outspoken critic of ATF's "Fast and Furious" operation really backing it all along? It's going to be interesting to see how this unfolds.

A chief Republican critic of a controversial U.S. anti-gun-trafficking operation was briefed on ATF’s “Fast and Furious” program last year and did not express any opposition, sources familiar with the classified briefing said Tuesday.

Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), who has repeatedly called for top Justice Department officials to be held accountable for the now-defunct operation, was given highly specific information about it at an April 2010 briefing, the sources said. Members of his staff also attended the session, which Issa and two other Republican congressmen had requested.

Fast and Furious targeted Mexican gun traffickers but was linked to the killing of a U.S. law enforcement officer. Republicans in Congress have criticized the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives over its handling of the operation, with Issa calling it “felony-stupid bad judgment” during a hearing last week in which he grilled a Justice Department official.

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[Meister]

So he's the one the left will throw under the bus over this issue, huh?
Any word about obama, Holder, or the rest of the cohorts on this? Just Issa, huh?

 

[Wonky Pundit]

So he's the one the left will throw under the bus over this issue, huh?
Any word about obama, Holder, or the rest of the cohorts on this? Just Issa, huh?

Last I heard, a few heads have already rolled at the lower levels. Right now I'm sitting back and waiting for more to come out.

 

[Trajan]

So was the most outspoken critic of ATF's "Fast and Furious" operation really backing it all along? It's going to be interesting to see how this unfolds.

A chief Republican critic of a controversial U.S. anti-gun-trafficking operation was briefed on ATF’s “Fast and Furious” program last year and did not express any opposition, sources familiar with the classified briefing said Tuesday.

Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), who has repeatedly called for top Justice Department officials to be held accountable for the now-defunct operation, was given highly specific information about it at an April 2010 briefing, the sources said. Members of his staff also attended the session, which Issa and two other Republican congressmen had requested.

Fast and Furious targeted Mexican gun traffickers but was linked to the killing of a U.S. law enforcement officer. Republicans in Congress have criticized the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives over its handling of the operation, with Issa calling it “felony-stupid bad judgment” during a hearing last week in which he grilled a Justice Department official.

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you realize last year the committees etc. were in dem hands...right? he could have squawked but it would have made no difference whatsoever if congress had anything to do with it....

 

[The T]

*NOTHING* to see here...Move along folks...just blatent partisanship on parade...

 

[Missourian]

From the article..... "(Frederick R. Hill, a spokesman for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which Issa chairs) accused “opponents” of the committee’s investigation of the gun-trafficking operation of “incredulously trying to assert that Obama administration political appointees at the Justice Department were ignorant — yet Congress was in the know on the details of Operation Fast and Furious.’’....That about sums it up. Unfortunately, I don't expect the Washington Post to delve any deeper.

 

[RadiomanATL]

From the article..... "(Frederick R. Hill, a spokesman for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which Issa chairs) accused “opponents” of the committee’s investigation of the gun-trafficking operation of “incredulously trying to assert that Obama administration political appointees at the Justice Department were ignorant — yet Congress was in the know on the details of Operation Fast and Furious.’’....That about sums it up. Unfortunately, I don't expect the Washington Post to delve any deeper.

Yeah....the people in charge were clueless....but congress knew!

 

[The T]

From the article..... "(Frederick R. Hill, a spokesman for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which Issa chairs) accused “opponents” of the committee’s investigation of the gun-trafficking operation of “incredulously trying to assert that Obama administration political appointees at the Justice Department were ignorant — yet Congress was in the know on the details of Operation Fast and Furious.’’....That about sums it up. Unfortunately, I don't expect the Washington Post to delve any deeper.

Issa on the MORNING JOEOn this issue and a few others...This issue is first up...Issa likens it to Iran Contra...he left that panel stunned...

 

[Wonky Pundit]

So was the most outspoken critic of ATF's "Fast and Furious" operation really backing it all along? It's going to be interesting to see how this unfolds.

A chief Republican critic of a controversial U.S. anti-gun-trafficking operation was briefed on ATF’s “Fast and Furious” program last year and did not express any opposition, sources familiar with the classified briefing said Tuesday.

Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), who has repeatedly called for top Justice Department officials to be held accountable for the now-defunct operation, was given highly specific information about it at an April 2010 briefing, the sources said. Members of his staff also attended the session, which Issa and two other Republican congressmen had requested.

Fast and Furious targeted Mexican gun traffickers but was linked to the killing of a U.S. law enforcement officer. Republicans in Congress have criticized the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives over its handling of the operation, with Issa calling it “felony-stupid bad judgment” during a hearing last week in which he grilled a Justice Department official.

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you realize last year the committees etc. were in dem hands...right? he could have squawked but it would have made no difference whatsoever if congress had anything to do with it....

Sure it would have. At least he wouldn't be in the mess he's in now.

Then again, maybe someone just hacked his Twitter account.

 

[percysunshine]

The Executive Branch ran the show. Hmmm...I wonder which Obama appointee is going to go under the bus for this screw up....