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South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy reaffirmed his call for Attorney General Eric Holders resignation the easy way, or impeachment the hard way, during an interview with The Daily Caller after Thursdays House oversight committee hearing during which Holder testified about Operation Fast and Furious.
While he was questioning Holder at the hearing, Gowdy explained that officials at the Department of Justices headquarters were aware of Fast and Furious and gun-walking tactics long before a demonstrably false letter was sent to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley claiming otherwise. Since the DOJ sent that letter, which stated it never let guns walk, it has withdrawn the letter because it of its inaccuracies.
I think he wound up admitting at the end [of the hearing] that Main Justice knew of gun-walking, so this notion that were going to blame it all on the United States Attorneys office in Arizona or ATF I went through a litany of people, all of them were Main Justice employees who knew about gunwalking both in Fast and Furious and before which means the letter that was sent to Senator Grassley was demonstrably false, Gowdy told TheDC.
We still havent gotten any of his emails, noted Gowdy, we dont have any documents after February 4, so its clear to me that people at Main Justice knew that gun-walking was going on in Fast and Furious. Its also clear to me that absolutely nothing has happened to a single solitary person as a result of this other than one dead Border Patrol agent and lots of Mexican citizens. Beyond that, I cant find a single consequence that has befallen anybody who knew about this.
Regardless of the mounting evidence that high-ranking officials were aware of and approved gun-walking which includes what Gowdy laid out and newly public emails between former acting ATF director Ken Melson and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, the head of the DOJs Criminal Division, in which Breuer describes what appears to be Fast and Furious gun-walking tactics as a terrific idea in 2009 House oversight committee Democrats claim that high-ranking DOJ officials never knew about or approved gun-walking.
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