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Author Topic: BATFE Fast and Furious Scandal - 11/4/2014 DOJ Releases 64,280 Pages of Docs  (Read 34232 times)

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Re: BATFE Fast and Furious "Gun Walking" Scandal
« Reply #60 on: October 02, 2012, 10:05:37 AM »
5 Things You Didn't Know About Operation Fast and Furious


1. Fast and Furious Guns Used in Infamous Massacre

2. 57 Previously Unidentified Weapons Surface

3. Mexico Knew About Fast and Furious

4. U.S. Gun-Walking Operations Extended to Other Countries

5. U.S. Agents Were Attacked with U.S. Weapons

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Re: BATFE Fast and Furious "Gun Walking" Scandal
« Reply #60 on: October 02, 2012, 10:05:37 AM »

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Re: BATFE Fast and Furious "Gun Walking" Scandal
« Reply #61 on: October 16, 2012, 10:49:29 AM »
"Fast and Furious" Whistleblower Calls On Fortune to Retract False Story
From NRA-ILA

A key figure in the "Fast and Furious" scandal is now fighting to clear his name against a discredited media attack.

Special Agent John Dodson of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was one of the whistleblowers who came forward to tell the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the operation, which helped funnel thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels.  His testimony provided vital information that has helped shine a light on this scandal.

In spite of the mountain of evidence that firearms were allowed to be trafficked to criminals without any effort to track or interdict them, Fortune magazine published a story in June written by Katherine Eban that made the implausible claim that it never really happened.

The story--conveniently published the week of the House vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over the scandal--attacked Dodson's character and argued that his account was a fiction created by infighting among agents.

However, the facts detailed in the Department of Justice Inspector General's report last week confirm that Dodson was right. Now, in light of the report, Dodson has called on Fortune to retract the story because it clearly is "demonstrably false in many respects."

Eban (a one-time campaign operative for former President Bill Clinton) continues to claim she got it right, claiming that the inspector general simply came to a different conclusion than she did. But her claims do not stand up against the facts uncovered by the Congressional investigation or the findings of the inspector general's report.

The House Oversight and Government Committee agrees with Dodson and has also called on Fortune to retract the story. "The DOJ report 'firmly rejects Eban's conclusions,' according to committee spokesman Frederick Hill.

Hill went on to characterize the Eban article. "If they gave out Pulitzer prizes for understatement, Eban's admission that her story's conclusions 'differ' from the reality other investigations found about Operation Fast and Furious would win. This kind of misleading and highly opinionated narrative masquerading as objective mainstream journalism is an example of why many Americans distrust what they're told by the media."

Without the courage of Dodson and the other whistleblowers who came forward, this scandal would have remained hidden from the American people. Eban's article is not supported by the facts. Fortune should retract the story and regain a small measure of its integrity as a financial publication.

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Re: BATFE Fast and Furious "Gun Walking" Scandal
« Reply #62 on: October 16, 2012, 10:53:23 AM »
Justice Department seeks dismissal of Fast and Furious lawsuit


The Justice Department on Monday night sought dismissal of a lawsuit by a Republican-led House of Representatives committee demanding that Attorney General Eric Holder produce records about the botched law enforcement probe of gun-trafficking called Operation Fast and Furious.

President Barack Obama has invoked executive privilege and the attorney general has been found to be in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents that might explain what led the Justice Department to reverse course after initially denying that federal agents had used a controversial tactic called gun-walking in the failed law enforcement operation. The tactic resulted in hundreds of illegally acquired weapons purchased at Arizona gun shops winding up in Mexico, where many of them were recovered from crime scenes.
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In its court papers, the Justice Department says the Constitution does not permit the courts to resolve the political dispute between the executive branch and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that is seeking the records. The political branches have a long history of resolving disputes over congressional requests without judicial intervention, the court filing said...
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Re: BATFE Fast and Furious "Gun Walking" Scandal
« Reply #63 on: May 22, 2013, 07:43:58 AM »
'Fast and Furious' Scandal Returns to Haunt Obama
By Paul M. Barrett
May 21, 2013

Fast and Furious is back. As if the Obama Administration needed an additional problem, the U.S. Justice Department inspector general said Monday that one of the department’s politically appointed officials retaliated against a whistleblower by leaking derogatory information to a Fox News (NWS) television producer.

...Fast and Furious eerily foreshadowed themes now casting ominous shadows over Obama’s second term...

In the process, Team Obama enmeshes itself more deeply in failures...

During the two-year Fast and Furious operation, agents in Arizona with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed the sale of more than 2,000 guns to suspected criminals thought to be linked to Mexican drug gangs. The ATF planned to trace the guns over the border as part of an investigation of the violent cartels. In a stupendous demonstration of incompetence, however, the ATF agents failed to track the contraband firearms...

All of which brings us to why Fast and Furious has returned: the Justice Department IG report detailing how former Phoenix-based U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke violated department policy by giving a Fox News producer a memo about an ATF agent named John Dodson, who had testified before Congress about his agency’s missteps...
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DOJ Releases 64,280 Pages of Fast & Furious Docs
« Reply #64 on: November 05, 2014, 10:08:31 AM »
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DOJ Document Dump: 64,280 Pages of Fast and Furious Docs
Documents Released Less Than Two Weeks After DOJ Head Eric Holder Announces Resignation






Election Eve Dump: Justice Department Turns Over 64,280 pages of Claimed ‘Executive Privilege’ Operation Fast and Furious Documents
Last night, in response to an Order from a Federal judge, the Department of Justice turned over 64,280 pages of documents that were withheld from Congress after President Obama asserted Executive Privilege on the eve of a contempt citation for Attorney General Eric Holder in June 2012.  The sheer volume of last night’s document production—which consists entirely of documents that the Justice Department itself acknowledges are not covered by Executive Privilege—shows that the President and the Attorney General attempted to extend the scope of the Executive Privilege well beyond its historical boundaries to avoid disclosing documents that embarrass or otherwise implicate senior Obama Administration officials.

In effect, last night’s production is an admission that the Justice Department never had legitimate grounds to withhold these documents in the first place.  Approximately two-thirds of the universe of documents that the Justice Department withheld from Congress has now been shown to be well outside the scope of Executive Privilege.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today made the following statement on the Department of Justice’s document production related to the agency’s cover-up of Operation Fast and Furious:

“When Eric Holder wants to know why he was the first Attorney General held in criminal contempt of Congress, he can read the judge’s order that compelled the production of 64,280 pages that he and President Obama illegitimately and illegally withheld from Congress.  Since these pages still do not represent the entire universe of the documents the House of Representatives is seeking related to the Justice Department’s cover-up of the botched gun-walking scandal that contributed to the death of a Border Patrol agent, our court case will continue.  I am deeply concerned that some redactions to these documents may still be inappropriate and contrary to the judge’s order in the case. This production is nonetheless a victory for the legislative branch, a victory for transparency, and a victory for efforts to check Executive Branch power.  As the production is extensive and may contain sensitive information, our investigative staff will be carefully examining the documents turned over last night.”




Click here for the cover letter that accompanied the document dump.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/obama-relents-in-fight-over-fast-and-furious-documents-221741

Obama relents in fight over Fast and Furious documents
By JOSH GERSTEIN 04/08/16 04:59 PM EDT Updated 04/08/16 05:24 PM EDT

Four years after asserting executive privilege to block Congress from obtaining documents relating to a controversial federal gun trafficking investigation, President Barack Obama relented Friday, turning over to lawmakers thousands of pages of records that led to unusual House votes holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt in 2012.

In January, a federal district court judge rejected Obama's executive privilege claim over records detailing the Justice Department and White House's response to Operation Fast and Furious, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigation that may have allowed as many as 2,000 firearms to pass into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

In her ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson did not turn down Obama's privilege assertion on the merits. Instead, she said authorized public disclosures about the operation in a Justice Department inspector general report essentially mooted the administration's drive to keep the records secret.

Both sides had until midnight Friday to file an appeal. Instead, the Obama administration turned over a set of documents to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

More at http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/obama-relents-in-fight-over-fast-and-furious-documents-221741