Late today, the Department of Justice delivered the latest big batch of documents to Congress with regard to operation Fast and Furious, the federal plan to let assault weapons be sold to Mexican drug cartels supposedly to help catch cartel members. Of course, the end result was 2000 weapons sent to Mexico, scores dead including a US border guard and no arrests. The new documents are perhaps most notable since they include a whole host of e-mails which DOJ released in an attempt to explain how it came to be that the Department of Justice lied to Senator Grassley of Iowa when he first asked about Fast and Furious. It may seem hard to believe, but according to DOJ the false response to Grassley was the result of misinformation being fed to Washington from the US attorney in Arizona.
The truth is that an operation like Fast and Furious could not go ahead without approval from Washington. That means that Washington already knew about it long before any information was sent back from Arizona. That also means that DOJ in Washington knew the truth when the false response was sent to Senator Grassley. Simply put, all the e-mail that DOJ released today are a smoke screen meant to obscure the fact that the people at DOJ in Washington had to know that the letter sent to Grassley was misleading and false.
The mess surrounding Fast and Furious keeps getting worse. It is time for president Obama to dump Eric Holder. If the Department of Justice cannot even tell the truth to a US Senator charged with oversight, then someone new at the top needs to whip DOJ into shape.
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