According to the latest news today from Fox, there was an internal e-mail sent within the US Attorney's office in Phoenix between an asst US Attorney and the then US Attorney, which talked about concealing the connection between the death of a US Border Patrol agent and ATF's Operation Fast and Furious. One of the guns found at scene of the agent's murder was involved in the above operation, purchased through a straw dealer under ATF surveillance but never seized.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/02/demand-for-more-answers-in-fast-and-furious-scandal/
"Not only do congressional investigators want to "make sense" of details of the operation that allowed more than 2,000 guns to "walk" and later turn up at crime scenes on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, but they want to known why Hurley -- who knew almost immediately the guns found at Terry's crime scene belonged to Fast and Furious -- tried to "prevent the connection from being disclosed."
In an internal email the day after the murder, Hurley, and then-U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, decided not to disclose the connection, saying " ... this way we do not divulge our current case (Fast and Furious) or the Border Patrol shooting case."
-Fox News
Keep in mind that this is the same US Attorney's office in Phoenix that refused to extend victim status to the family of the murdered Border Patrol agent. This is the same Dennis Burke, whose testimony before Congress recently had to be suspended when he became ill during testimony.
Here is what Hot Air is reporting based on an LA Times article:
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/02/fast-and-furious-e-mails-reached-at-least-three-white-house-officials/
Once again, as a retired federal agent, I must ask-where are DHS Director Janet Napolitano and BP head Alan Bersin? Why are they not leading the charge to uncover the facts? Why are they not speaking out and demanding answers from the Justice Department? It was their (2) agents who were killed with guns involved in Fast and Furious. Why are they not standing up for Agent Terry's family? Why have they not resigned in protest? Why should they not resign in disgrace?
In addition, this is a major diplomatic incident between two countries- the US and Mexico. Where is the voice of our secretary of state, Hillary Clinton? We have heard nothing from her. Shouldn't the press ask for a statement?
It is maddening that so much of the public doesn't even know about this scandal because the media wants to sweep it under the rug in order to protect the Obama administration. As the old saying goes, we get the government we deserve.
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Or maybe its NOT a major diplomatic incident. Perhaps the Secretary of State has not received any complaints from the Mexican embassy?
Yeah right.
Looks to me like this is a bunch of amateurs or incompetents (or both)who do not have the slighest idea what they are doing relative to law enforcement.
P.S.--Sorry, or maybe the blind leading the blind?
"Yeah, right" tells me that Gary Fouse has no inside source at the Mexican embassy, no news clippings concerning formal complaints from Mexico, but doesn't want to let a few facts get in the way of a good story.
What nobody trying to raise a faux scandal about this operation acknowledges is that thousands of guns were already going to Mexico every year, and nothing much was being done about it at all. So, having an identifiable gun that was used to kill a U.S. agent is a bit better than having an unidentifiable gun that was used to kill a U.S. agent, which has happened many times.
Why is nobody at Fox News talking about the agent's familiy suing the gun shop that sold the gun to the straw buyer? Especially if the same gun shop sold a lot of other guns to straw buyers, identifiable in the same operation?
Why, that might suggest the need to tighten gun laws, and, the whole point of the propaganda exercise is to prove that the Obama administration is trying to concoct an artificial basis to push for tighter gun laws... Oh yes, and everybody with their mouths open on this one has been dedicated to denying the president a second term since Nov 8, 2008.
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