The Justice Department's
internal watchdog on Wednesday faulted the agency for misguided
strategies, errors in judgment and management failures during a bungled
gun-trafficking probe in Arizona that disregarded public safety and
resulted in hundreds of weapons turning up at crime scenes in the U.S.
and Mexico.
A former head of the department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
and a deputy assistant attorney general in Justice's criminal division
in Washington left the department upon the report's release — the first
by retirement, the second by resignation.
In the 471-page report, Inspector General Michael Horowitz
referred more than a dozen people for possible department disciplinary
action for their roles in Operation Fast and Furious and a separate,
earlier probe known as Wide Receiver, undertaken during the George W.
Bush administration. A former acting deputy attorney general and the
head of the criminal division were criticized for actions and omissions
related to operations subsequent to and preceding Fast and Furious.
The report did not criticize Attorney General Eric Holder, but said lower-level officials should have briefed him about the investigation much earlier.
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