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Senator Chuck Grassley says that Attorney General Eric Holder received at least five weekly memos beginning in July 2010 on Operation Fast and Furious.

Holder Received at Least
Five Memos on Fast and Furious

(GunReports.com) – Senator Chuck Grassley and Congressman Darrell Issa today said that Attorney General Eric Holder received at least five weekly memos beginning in July 2010, including four weeks in a row, describing the ill-advised strategy known as Operation Fast and Furious. The memos were to Holder from Michael Walther, the director of the National Drug Intelligence Center.

The Attorney General told Issa during a House Judiciary Committee in May 2011 that he had just learned of Fast and Furious a few weeks before. Yet, on January 31, in a previously scheduled meeting, Grassley personally handed him two letters about Fast and Furious. Grassley and Issa said they find it very troubling that Holder actually knew of Operation Fast and Furious much earlier, and in greater detail than he ever let on.

The memos specifically said that the straw buyers were "responsible for the purchase of 1500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug trafficking cartels."

"With the fairly detailed information that the Attorney General read, it seems the logical question for the Attorney General after reading in the memo would be "why haven't we stopped them?" Grassley said. "And if he didn't ask the questions, why didn't he or somebody in his office?"

"Attorney General Holder has failed to give Congress and the American people an honest account of what he and other senior Justice Department officials knew about gunwalking and Operation Fast and Furious. The lack of candor and honesty from our nation's chief law enforcement officials in this matter is deeply disturbing," Issa said.

Grassley and Issa have been leading the investigation into who approved the strategy to allow guns to be purchased by known straw buyers who then often transferred the firearms to Mexican Drug Cartels.

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"...it seems the logical question for the Attorney General after reading in the memo would be "why haven't we stopped them?"

Well it WOULD seem logical if this was really some well-intentioned program gone arwy, but NOT if it was intended to be entirely as much of a SNAFU as it is, and if you were in on it at the get-go. Of course, THAT would only be likely if you had a secret agenda of some sort other than justice itself, and were perhaps interested in creating excuses for gun controls, or for profiting from gun running, or both. (Am I missing any possible reasons, guys?)

Comment by: david b | October 13, 2011

I suspect that you nailed it pretty well, david b. Watergate initially began as a simple burglary of DNC HQ, but not until it became known that it was part of a plan to enhance the re-election of Richard Nixon, did things really start to stink. So it is with F&F..... What may have started out as an ill conceived plan to deal with the Mexican drug cartels, is now showing up to be a subterfuge of illegal activity intended to support an agenda of increasing anti-Second Amendment sentiment so as to clamp down on Second Amendment rights. And, as you also state, it could lead to discovery that our national government is somehow in bed with the cartels so as to ease off the pressure on them.

Comment by: canovack | October 13, 2011

How much more evidence do we need? We have a crook at commander in chief!!!!! It is obvious that Holder, and many more, are also crooks. Many in this country like this bunch, it defies all logic that they do not see how Obama is like a cancer to this nation.

Comment by: GK59 | October 13, 2011

When watergate occurred and the evidence was brought to light... Nixon accepted responsibility and resigned. Obamma could do the same thing.... NAH.. Nixon had class, and Obamma is a cretin and will throw anyone including Holder under the bus to protect his lying ass.

Comment by: Michaelgb | October 13, 2011

Michaelgb - I believe what actually happened was that Nixon saw the writing on the wall and resigned ahead of an impeachment charge. That's not quite 'accepting responsibility' - but check my memory if you like. My point is that we may need to get to that point again in this current goat-party.

Comment by: david b | October 13, 2011

Yes, Nixon was resolutely hanging on until that proverbial handwriting on the wall became visible in the form of the Congress drawing up the articles of impeachment. If this mess continues to stink up the halls of government, we may yet see some courageous congressional action. With the approval rates of Congress at all time lows, the Congress may take some action. After all, Congress actually did impeach Bill Clinton over his intransigence concerning the blow-job he got in the Oval Office. Surely Slick Willie's sexcapades really didn't rise to the level of criminal conduct that is evident in the Fast and Furious scandal.

Comment by: canovack | October 13, 2011

Let's see here...July 2010 Holder receives 5 letters about F&F, updating him on it...May 2011, under oath, he says he just heard about it a few weeks earlier. Did we forget the PERJURY charges!? He should IMMEDIATELY be removed from office and be made to stand trial for perjury without the protection of the office with which he held!

Comment by: auroravet | October 14, 2011

auroavet - I'm pretty sure that lying before Congress when questioned is not the same as perjury, which I believe is lying under oath. A subpoena will place him under oath. So if I'm correct, don't expect anything to really happen to him until the adminiistration loses the subpoena fight. And DO expect, btw, to hear the 'state secrets' crap brought up again as a defense.

If lying to Congress were illegal (and I used to think it was), then Bush could have been prosecuted for his WMD stories. But he wasn't under oath when he told them, AND he had a Congress stacked in his favor.

It'll get REALLY interesting if this gets past the current AJ to the POTUS, won't it? He'd be under oath if subpoenaed, but doesn't have a Congress that is entirely on his side. In that case I'd expect to see (probably as soon as the subpoena thing looks like a 'go') numbers of GOP reps and senators being busted for various crimes and ethics violations, and especially sex related violations. Enough of that would get them out of their offices and change the voting capabilities re: any possible impeachment charges. Yeah, I think this can get 'dirty'.

Comment by: david b | October 14, 2011

Canovack - interesting point about congress's lack of credibility adding to the impetus for serious action. Any legislator actually dealing with criminal malfeasance in Washington will gain a lot of credibility with voters right now.

David - you sure are in touch with your dark side today! ;) I agree- this could get really ugly, which is why I think Issa, et al are content with the pace at which it is proceeding. The longer it takes O-bone-me to sit in the hot seat, the less time he has to react and gain public "forgiveness." Yes, he could begin "reacting" now, but that merely shows he is guilty...

Comment by: PVB | October 14, 2011

P.S. - Canovack - another good point on the U.S. relationship with the cartels. Quite possibly, "we" have actually negotiated "gunwalking" with the Mexicans to get the cartels to keep their violence within Mexico.

Comment by: PVB | October 14, 2011

P V B - yeah, I'm in touch with my dark side. Politics does that to me. Maybe I need to take a break.

Political news reminds me of watching The Godfather and Sopranos, only without the stilettos in the pockets. (Or maybe we just don't see those...?) Reminds me of what used to be called "Byzantine intrigue" too, but what we should by now realize is a cultural norm in the entire Middle East. It's all deception, double-dealing, back-stabbing and character assassination. When is the last time you remember either party having a platform strong enough to stand on without trying to play the personality game for their guy and against the other? If my memory serves, it was in the '60's.

Comment by: david b | October 14, 2011

I still say Issa should place them under house arrest until the investigation is complete. It might keep Holder and the boys from keeping their lies strait and we can watch them fight amongst themselves during the investigation.

Comment by: ohyea55 | October 16, 2011