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Friday Afternoon News Dump: Holder Releases More Fast And Furious Emails…

Thanks to Congressman Issa.

WASHINGTON (AP) –  Newly released Justice Department emails sent to Capitol Hill for a congressional inquiry into a gun-smuggling operation indicate that the head of the department’s criminal division suggested letting some illicit “straw” weapons buyers in the U.S. transport their guns across the border into Mexico where they could be arrested.

According to the emails turned over to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Friday night, the Justice official, Lanny Breuer, made the suggestion to Mexican officials because it “may send a strong message to arms traffickers.”

Mexico has stringent gun control laws with long prison terms as opposed to the U.S., where small-time “straw” buyers working for major arms traffickers seldom face jail time.

Breuer made the remarks in February 2011, around the time that agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were telling congressional investigators that the ATF had allowed hundreds of illicitly purchased guns in the operation known as Fast and Furious flow into Mexico — a controversial tactic known as “gun-walking” aimed at following gun buyers to major traffickers.

The documents on Breuer were among 486 pages of material turned over to the House committee chaired by Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California.

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22 comments
  1. Grass Mud Horsey says:
    January 28, 2012 at 12:07 pm

    … and so everyone wore a sad face in Meerkat Manor.

    Arming foreign drug lords, getting citizens murdered, then pulverizing the law to cover up a massive effort to subvert the constitution. That’s-

    winning the future, the soetero way!

  2. friday says:
    January 28, 2012 at 12:13 pm

    Breaking: Florida Tea Party Leaders Endorse Newt Gingrich
    Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, January 28, 2012, 9:14 AM

    The Florida Tea Party Coalition With Newt endorsed the former House speaker on Thursday, saying they would “help defeat Massachusetts Moderate Mitt Romney and then President Barack Obama.”

    52% of tea party goers support Newt according to the latest Rasmussen poll.

    Newt is speaking at a tea party event later today.
    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/01/breaking-florida-tea-party-leaders-endorse-newt-gingrich/

  3. Spurwing Plover says:
    January 28, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    Eric Holder what skeletons dose he hide in his closet anyway?

  4. RWGinger says:
    January 28, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    Do I haev the timeline right? Lanny is talking to mexican officials AFTER we already know about Fast and Furious and AFTER Agent Terry was killed along with many in Mexico?
    When the story on F&F broke it was reporter that no one alerted the Mexican gov’t we were allowing guns into Mexico

  5. NvMtn Old Man says:
    January 28, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    C’mon Issa get some guts and get all the docs now and quit waiting for Holder to release anything. You just give him and his cohorts time to peruse and shred the ones you really need for the investigation. Shades of Hillary’s Rose Law firm records that nobody could find until it was too late. Issa we deserve better that this.!!!!!!

  6. friday says:
    January 28, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    Whoa!… Must See – Tennessee College Republicans Release “The Debt Generation” (Video)

    THE BEST 1 Minute 19 Seconds YOU WILL SPEND TODAY- This video was made by Tennessee College Students.
    You won’t regret it.

    here
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDyXrSwJnA#!

  7. CapnAngus says:
    January 28, 2012 at 12:40 pm

    If it weren’t for people like ZIP who cover F.A.T. (Friday After Three PM) Happenings, we wouldn’t know much about what this administration is up to.

    Release bad news Friday After 3 allow the pussy cats on Sunday Morning to meekly talk about it between commercials & by Monday it’s not a story anymore…

    “Journalists” have disgraced themselves & their profession in the last 15 years.

  8. Pete (Detroit) says:
    January 28, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    friday – inspirational.
    F&F can’t get Holder locked up fast enough, and I’m furious about it!

  9. Sickofislam says:
    January 28, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UErR7i2onW0&feature=related

  10. MADJACK says:
    January 28, 2012 at 12:51 pm

    @friday & Sickofislam, great videos. :cool: Thanks for the links. ;)

  11. pre-Boomer Marine brat says:
    January 28, 2012 at 1:38 pm

    Has anyone thought to ask if Holder has a tape recording system in his office?

    /18 minute gap … oh cr*p

  12. Rufus says:
    January 28, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    If the Republicans wanted to, they could have Holder, and probably Obama in chains by now.

    They don’t want to.

  13. Debbie says:
    January 28, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    Rufus,
    Yup,and again,it begs the question why.

    Politicians do NOTHING unless they benefit from it.

    We hear little bits about F & F but what about the reported other branches of the program,like gangwalker – government sales of guns to gangs in OH,IL and FL ? And the hand grenades into Mexico ?

  14. Rufus says:
    January 28, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    @ Debbie…

    Our Repubs won’t do anything that implicate Obama because they are afraid of being called racists.
    They are relying on the 2012 election to remove him.
    They are scared shit that the ghettoes will erupt in riots if they go after Obama.

    Little do they realize that the riots are already planned and are being put into play as we speak.

  15. midusdew says:
    January 28, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    This should have been released within the 1st month of the investigation.

    This is a dump. Literary a shit!

    All of the real evidence has been flushed….

  16. JohnP says:
    January 28, 2012 at 5:14 pm

    A racist chicago thug! Hey, I just noticed he’s black like Obama. That must make me a racist.

  17. NoBlahBlah says:
    January 28, 2012 at 5:16 pm

    since the media won’t pick up any of this even as it is broadcast on cspan

    our only hope is for it to keep going long enough that someone will get a spine and bring it into the campaign discussion

    i would like to see subpoenas go out around end of august so all of sept oct will have it in the news

  18. crudcutter says:
    January 28, 2012 at 6:40 pm

    If I were a prosecutor in AZ I would present the Bauer case to a grand jury and request a murder indictment relating to Brian Terry and counts for every dead Mexican tied to one of Eric the Red’s walking armory with a number of unnamed co-conspirators and then wait for more email.

  19. Thunder Lizard says:
    January 28, 2012 at 10:09 pm

    If Holder was white or Republican, I’d bet he would be sitting in a jail cell right now awaiting trial. Geez Louise, Scooter Libby did prison time for a mere pittance of what has happened in Fast and Furious.

  20. Debbie says:
    January 29, 2012 at 12:40 am

    Rufus ,
    Hmm i guess the Repubs are blind,deaf and dumb.
    Libs have called the GOP,Tea Partiers ,our ancestors and children racists about 200 times in the last 3 months.Even my cat is becoming race paranoid . :)

  21. barbedwhyer says:
    January 29, 2012 at 3:00 am

    Holder…the greasiest, most liberal, cheese-eating rodent
    in the Attorney-General pantheon. Remember how the
    MSM CRUCIFIED John Ashcroft on a daily basis for
    months on end??? For WHAT? Anything that approaches
    Holder’s biases??? This clot swats away the critiques
    and the press goes ……..mum. Ashcroft never got the
    respite.

  22. BlueSky says:
    January 29, 2012 at 8:38 am

    Rep. Gosar Continues to Push “No Confidence” in Holder Resolution

    Gun Owners of America

    Washington, DC –(Ammoland.com)- Attorney General Eric Holder — recently caught lying under oath concerning his knowledge of his department’s Fast and Furious program — may be moving a step closer to the inside of a jail cell.

    On Thursday, February 2nd, Chairman Darrell Issa’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold another hearing on the disastrous Fast and Furious operation.

    Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar, a member of that committee, is also pushing a resolution of “no confidence” in Holder’s management – or lack of management – of the Justice Department.

    That resolution, H. Res. 490, provides a course of action for the momentum generated by that hearing.

    H. Res. 490 finds that, as a result of “Holder’s failure to properly control, monitor, or establish Operation Fast and Furious, it is likely Mexican nationals were killed or wounded by weapons sold through this scheme” — and that the victims of Holder’s incompetence included U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

    It goes on to resolve that the House has “lost confidence” in Holder, which is, basically, a call for him to resign.

    Clearly, the Justice Department believes it can stonewall Issa’s inquiry and bull its way through questions concerning its criminal malfeasance. Adoption of the Gosar resolution would make it much, much more difficult to do so.

    http://www.ammoland.com/2012/01/27/rep-gosar-continues-to-push-no-confidence-in-holder-resolution

    God Bless the Great State Of Arizona

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