Fast and Furious Remarks are Holder's OK Corral

"If Attorney General Holder had said these things five months ago when Congress asked him about Operation Fast and Furious, it might have been more believable. At this point, however, it's hard to take at face value a defense that is factually questionable, entirely self-serving and a still incomplete account of what senior Justice Department officials knew about gun-walking." Frederick Hill, a spokesman for Congressman Darrel Issa, commenting on Eric Holder's first detailed remarks to Congress in the Fast and Furious operation run by the Bureau Of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.

In Fast and Furious, ATF agents allowed suspected smugglers to buy 2,000 firearms, hoping their trail would lead them to the arrest and conviction against top drug traffickers. Many of the guns turned up in crime scenes in Mexico and the U.S., and hundreds remain unaccounted for. Two deaths are directly linked to this operation.

The letter is the first response from Holder who faces criticism from Republican lawmakers who have held hearings and tried to tie the operation to him and other senior officials.

"There is no doubt that Operation Fast and Furious was fundamentally flawed. Regrettably, its effects will be felt for years to come as weapons that should have been interdicted, but were not, continue to show up at crime scenes in this country and Mexico." Mr. Holder continued, "lawmakers should focus on fixing loopholes in our laws that facilitate the staggering flow of guns each year across our border."

Interview With Peter Suciu About Fast & Furious

We had the pleasure of talking to Peter Suciu about the ATF and Operation Fast and Furious.

Peter is the author of America's Road To Facism: From the Progressives to the Era of Hope and Change

Peter's work has appeared in more than three dozen magazines, newspapers and Web sites including Newsweek, Playboy, Readers Digest, Consumers Digest, Forbes, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, FoxNews.com, CNN.com and MSNBC.com. Peter's website firearmstruth.com

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ATF Responsible For Deaths in Mexico And U.S. Border Guard

"Fast and Furious," a U.S. sting operation to let firearms "walk" across the border into Mexico and track them to powerful drug cartels, risked innocent lives and generated more violence in the neighboring country, according to a congressional report presented here Wednesday.

The goal of the effort by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, in which that agency lost track of nearly 2,000 weapons, was to establish a link between "straw" firearm purchasers in the United States and high-ranking members of drug cartel in Mexico. Fox News Latino - Click To Read More...

Obama snubs Issa Subpoena for ATF Documents

For the first time since Republicans took control of the House and gained the power of congressional subpoena, the Obama administration has declined to comply with a subpoena issued by top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa.

In the face of a subpoena by Issa, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) provided no documents by the April 13 deadline, according to an April 20 letter from Issa to ATF’s director, Kenneth Melson.

Issa is threatening contempt proceedings if ATF does not comply.  Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller