Fast & Furious update: Holder’s deputy CoS briefed in December 2010.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 30th at 09:30 AM  | 

There’s been a lot of commentary, obviously, about the information found in the latest Department of Justice Friday afternoon email dump with regards to the administration’s catastrophic Operation Fast & Furious. For those who need a reminder, OF&F was a program by which political appointees in the Obama administration ignored federal rules and basic common sense in order to facilitate the illegal resale of firearms | Read More »

Joe Lieberman inserts himself into Operation Fast & Furious.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 22nd at 03:20 PM  | 

Short version of the background: Operation Fast & Furious was a botched Department of Justice operation where the federal government catastrophically mucked up a program ostensibly designed to curtain illegal gun running to Mexico by… sustaining, encouraging, and enabling gun running to Mexico. Several hundred people have died as a result – including at least one American law enforcement official – and now questions are | Read More »

Operation Fast & Furious… Rocket Launchers?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 17th at 10:18 AM  | 

You’re going to see the below quoted text a lot, because it’s an excellent summation of the problem that we’re having with the Obama administration’s catastrophically incompetent Fast & Furious disaster*: Let’s review: When we first learned about Fast and Furious, the news was that a number of assault rifles had been sold to straw purchasers. Soon, we learned that the number was approximately 2,500 | Read More »

Fast & Furious coverup in Arizona.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 2nd at 09:30 AM  | 

(H/T: Hot Air) I believe that the quasi-pop reference here is “BOOM goes the dynamite:” Congressional investigators tell CBS News there’s evidence the U.S. Attorney’s office in Arizona sought to cover up a link between their controversial gunwalking operation known as “Fast and Furious” and the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Executive background summary, for those who don’t remember/aren’t following: Operation Fast & | Read More »

Fast & Furious Update: William Hoover claims ‘exit strategy’ meeting.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 14th at 11:47 PM  | 

Short version of Fast & Furious, for those who came in late: the federal government decided to try to fight the spread of illegal weapons sales among Mexican narco-terrorist gangs by… encouraging and facilitating the sale of illegal weapons to Mexican narco-terrorist gangs.  No, it did not end well: the guns that were illegally resold often got lost track of, right up to the point | Read More »

DEA now linked to Operation Fast & Furious.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 8th at 02:00 PM  | 

It would appear that the DEA does not want to be the fall guy in Operation Fast & Furious*, either: DEA head Michele M. Leonhart admitted in a letter to Senator Grassley (Judiciary) and Rep. Issa (Oversight) that her organization was in fact involved in the investigation, and provided support for it. This is a significant admission by Ms. Leonhart, given that (as Bob Owens** | Read More »

The Great Fast & Furious… Fast & Furious Data-Dump.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 27th at 02:00 PM  | 

The fact that the sordid details about Operation Fast & Furious (short edition: the federal government allowed guns to be illegally resold to Mexican narco-terrorists, who then proceeded to murder people with them) are all breaking during the debt ceiling situation is either the absolute best or the absolute worst luck for the Obama administration. On the one hand, the administration is not getting hammered | Read More »