Eric
Holder claims that the just-released Office of Inspector General report
on Operation Fast and Furious vindicates his claims that he knew
nothing about this reckless operation. He seems oblivious to the fact
that the almost-500-page report is a damning indictment of his lack of
leadership, supervision, and judgment.
Holder supposedly knew nothing about (and his senior leadership
failed to alert him to) a major investigation that resulted in the death
of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, hundreds of deaths in Mexico, and more
than 2,000 weapons’ ending up in the hands of criminals there. It is a
chilling comment on how badly the Justice Department is run today. As
the attorney general, essentially the CEO of the Department of Justice,
Holder is directly responsible for what the inspector general calls a
“series of misguided strategies, tactics, errors in judgment, and
management failures that permeated ATF Headquarters and the Phoenix
Field Division, as well as the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District
of Arizona.”In the report, the IG says he has “identified individuals ranging from line agents and prosecutors in Phoenix and Tucson to senior ATF officials in Washington, D.C., who bore a share of responsibility for ATF’s knowing failure . . . to interdict firearms illegally destined for Mexico, and for doing so without adequately taking into account the danger to public safety that flowed from this risky strategy.” He also found “failures by [DOJ] officials related to these matters, including failing to respond accurately to a Congressional inquiry about them.” The adjectives used in the IG report to describe the conduct and supervision of Operation Fast and Furious range from “significantly flawed” to “irresponsible.”
Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/327957/ig-report-and-holder-hans-von-spakovsky
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