{"id":4287,"date":"2011-06-15T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/06\/15\/oversight-committee-report-on-projec\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:14:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:14:59","slug":"oversight-committee-report-on-projec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4287","title":{"rendered":"Oversight Committee Report On Project Gunwalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17435,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scribd.com\\\/doc\\\/57888899\\\/ATF-Report&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.scribd.com\\\/doc\\\/57888899\\\/ATF-Report&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has released their report on Operation Fast and Furious. The highlights of the report are below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Report: Four ATF Agents Working on Controversial Operation \u2018Fast and Furious\u2019 Tell their Story <\/p>\n<p>Agents say DOJ still being untruthful about efforts to let guns \u2018walk\u2019 into hands of drug cartels <\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today released a report, \u201cThe Department of Justice\u2019s Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents.\u201d The report includes testimony from four Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agents offering firsthand accounts about the controversial Operation Fast and Furious that allowed suspects to walk away with illegally purchased guns. Two of the approximately 2,000 guns that ATF let criminals walk away with were found at the murder scene of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cATF agents have shared chilling accounts of being ordered to stand down as criminals in Arizona walked away with guns headed for Mexican drug cartels,\u201d said Rep. Issa. \u201cWith the clinical precision of a lab experiment, the Justice Department kept records of weapons they let walk and the crime scenes where they next appeared. To agents\u2019 shock, preventing loss of life was not the primary concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese agents have risked their lives working for the ATF and they\u2019ve risked their careers by coming forward to speak the truth about a dangerous strategy that was doomed from the start,\u201d Sen. Grassley said. \u201cThe report shows the street agents\u2019 perspective on this risky policy to let guns walk. It should help people who are wondering what really happened during Operation Fast and Furious understand why we are continuing to investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the report include:<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The supervisor of Operation Fast and Furious was \u201cjovial, if not, not giddy but just delighted about\u201d walked guns showing up at crime scenes in Mexico according to an ATF agent. (p. 37)<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Another ATF agent told the committee about a prediction he made a year ago that \u201csomeone was going to die\u201d and that the gunwalking operation would be the subject of a Congressional investigation. (p. 24)<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords created a \u201cstate of panic\u201d within the group conducting the operation as they initially feared a \u201cwalked\u201d gun might have been used. (p. 38)<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>One Operation Fast and Furious Agent: \u201cI cannot see anyone who has one iota of concern for human life being okay with this \u2026\u201d (p. 27) <\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>An ATF agent predicted to committee investigators that more deaths will occur as a result of Operation Fast and Furious. (p.39)<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Multiple agents told the committee that continued assertions by Department of Justice Officials that guns were not knowingly \u201cwalked\u201d and that DOJ tried to stop their transport to Mexico are clearly untruthful. (p. 45-50)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe Oversight and Government Reform Committee&#8217;s staff report entitled &#8220;The Department of Justice\u2019s Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents&#8221; is embedded below:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/57888899\/ATF-Report\" style=\"-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; margin: 12px auto 6px; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View ATF Report on Scribd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATF Report<\/a><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.772727272727273\" data-auto-height=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"600\" id=\"doc_65487\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/57888899\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=list&amp;access_key=key-1btdau78jp4hgro8cjpf\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(&#8220;script&#8221;); scribd.type = &#8220;text\/javascript&#8221;; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = &#8220;http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/javascripts\/embed_code\/inject.js&#8221;; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(&#8220;script&#8221;)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has released their report on Operation Fast and Furious. 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