Fox News article on Fast and Furious

[Sky]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...furious-report-spreads-blame-across-agencies/

The report and accompanying accounts cite a failure in leadership and a lack of accountability and oversight up and down the chain of command at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Justice Department itself and other offices. It says many senior executives knew the U.S. was helping traffic guns to Mexico that killed people but did nothing to stop it.

 

[Bubbles]

Much of the blame in the report is directed at three ATF managers: Phoenix Agent in Charge Bill Newell, Supervisor Dave Voth and Case Agent Hope MacAllister.

Their attorneys claim they've been scapegoated.

Translation: they don't have insurance policies to cover their backsides. Oops.

 

[Trent]

Someone forgot to get a 'get out of jail free' letter on white house letterhead and was caught without a chair when the music stopped.

 

[9thchild]

Why are people surprised by this? The Drug War is a scam and always has been. Who benefits from drug laws the most? Cartels and the corrupt politicians and government officials who work with them.

I am not surprised at all that we were supplying them with firearms. We learned nothing from Iran Contra, clearly.

End the drug laws, end the crime and corruption. Plain and simple. Federal drug laws are unconstitutional anyway.

 

[Apuuli]

Wait... Guns kill people? I thought people killed guns...

 

[publius]

The finger pointing when this comes out will be interesting.

Both men recall a detailed briefing Voth delivered to senior ATF and DOJ staff in Washington on March 5, 2010. In a Power Point presentation, attended by at least two deputy attorneys general, Voth explained how the operation was run and how almost two-dozen largely unemployed men bought 1,026 assault weapons with $650,000 in just over four months, then smuggled the guns to Mexico while under surveillance.

"Following the briefing ... Mr. Voth received accolades from his superiors. No one in ATF leadership or at Main Justice raised any concerns with Mr. Voth about the direction of the investigation. If anything, they were encouraging him," Voth attorney Joshua Levy said.

That briefing sounds like it will make the DOJ's Feb 4, 2011 letter to Congress denying that the ATF walked guns even harder to explain than it already is. Not to mention the ten months it took to reverse that denial.

 

[k_dawg]

I am sure that Mr Holder is 'all over this'.