re: #312 Obdicut

It all represents data. These programs actually existed. Which would be directly contrary to what you suggest about Issa. If he says it’s so, it’s not. That would imply he made it all up, a separate thing from the exaggerations he did create again and again.

My differing reaction is “okay let’s see whats up, who has testified or written about it that was involved. Non GOP report results are still more data.

On September 19,[103] the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz publicly released a 471-page report[20] detailing the results of the Justice Department’s own internal investigations. The Inspector General’s report, which had access to evidence and interviews with witnesses not permitted in previous Congressional reports, recommended 14 federal officials for disciplinary action, ranging from ATF agents to federal prosecutors involved in the Fast and Furious operation.[103] It found “no evidence” that Attorney General Holder knew about Fast and Furious before early 2011.[104] It found no evidence that previous Attorneys General had been advised about gunwalking in Operation Wide Receiver.[20]

While the OIG report found no evidence that higher officials at the Justice Department in Washington had authorized or approved of the tactics used in the Fast and Furious investigations, it did fault 14 lower officials for related failures, including failures to take note of “red flags” uncovered by the investigation, as well as failures to follow up on information produced through Operation Fast and Furious and its predecessor, Operation Wide Receiver.[103] The report also noted ATF agents’ apparent frustrations over legal obstacles from the Phoenix Attorney’s Office to prosecuting suspected “straw-buyers,” while also criticizing the agents’ failure to quickly intervene and interdict weapons obtained by low-level suspects in the case.[103] The 14 Justice Department employees were referred for possible internal discipline. The Justice Department’s Criminal Division head Lanny Breuer, an Obama appointee, was cited for not alerting his bosses in 2010 to the flaws of Operation Wide Receiver.[105]