Democrats are delusional and desperate. All the evidence points to a top-down cover-up from the Department of Justice to the ATF to the Obama administration. The investigation hasn’t concluded, yet Democrats are already releasing a report absolving the Obama regime and his DOJ from responsibility. Give me a break.
Via NY Times:
Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Tuesday are expected to publish a report on the disputed gun trafficking investigation called Operation Fast and Furious, concluding that agents in Arizona — not Obama administration officials — were responsible for the tactics used in the inquiry and for providing misleading information relayed to Congress.
In an 89-page report, titled “Fatally Flawed: Five Years of Gun-walking in Arizona,” the Democratic staff portrays Fast and Furious as the fourth investigation, dating back to 2006, in which Arizona-based agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives employed the tactic “gun-walking” — failing to interdict illegally purchased guns in an attempt to build a bigger case.
“This report debunks many unsubstantiated conspiracy theories,” Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, wrote in a cover letter. “Contrary to repeated claims by some, the committee has obtained no evidence that Operation Fast and Furious was a politically motivated operation conceived and directed by high-level Obama administration political appointees at the Department of Justice.”
It was paid for by Obama’s stimulus, page 407, written and passed by Democrats. Attorney General Holder, appointed by Obama, bragged about the operation and then lied by claiming he had no knowledge of the gun trafficking scheme. Then we have the head of the US Attorney’s Office, under Holder’s command, refusing to testify and pleading the 5th. Obama knew about it before Holder (though Holder is lying through his teeth) and order the operation. Democrats don’t want you to believe your lying eyes…
Still, because the report was written by Democrats, the political impact of its conclusion exonerating high-level officials of wrongdoing may be limited. Its publication comes two days before Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is to testify before the committee. In previous hearings, Republicans have accused the department of sanctioning the tactics and lying to Congress.
In Fast and Furious, which ran from late 2009 to early 2011, A.T.F. officials lost track of about 2,000 guns purchased by suspected “straw buyers.” Many weapons are believed to have reached a Mexican drug cartel. Two guns linked to the investigation were found at the site of a shootout in which a Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, was killed.
Recently turned-over e-mails show an aide to AG Holder informed Holder about the death and gun connection the same day of Terry’s murder.
Holder and his bunch (all the way to the top) should be executed for high treason. What a blight on the country. Drop them at sea and let the sharks eat them. No, that would be cruel to the sharks. Let their own kind, the bottom dwellers have them.