statement and insisting they continue to stand by that falls statement for 10 months, you do have a serious question whether or not congress can fairly evaluate these individuals staying in office, staying in their jobs if in fact they can t be counted on to tell the truth. reporter: now we expect a ruling in the next three weeks but this is going to be appealed by either side in connection, could be run out until president obama leaves office. now as to the civil suit from the brian terry family. he was murdered in december 2010 by fast & furious weapons by lone wolf, gun store enlisted by atf to sell guns to known felons. the family also sued senior atf officials and lone wolf for negligence claiming both knew or should have known the weapons would kill. the agents climbed immunity, gun store sided with terrys the owners was also misled by the government which falsely claimed it was tracking guns.
he has not gotten i mean, senator grassley has done an excellent job of investigating. the department of justice has been anything but cooperative. grassley sent a letter to the department of justice and directly to attorney general eric holder about a month ago. after we saw this revelation of mexican police chief being killed asking why his justice department was not informing congress of these new deaths that are linked to fast and furious weapons. you know, the oversight committee is still in a court battle when it comes to getting documents into deciding whether president obama s assertion of executive privilege will stand and so, you know, we have seen lots of redacted documents and we haven t seen much progress. can i tell you that brian terry family doesn t feel like they have seen much progress either. clayton: they are outraged. of course we spoke with them recently. here is what the atf had to say about. this they say atf has accepted sonsability for the mistakes made
martha: the justice department is releasing its long awaited report on fast and furious today. that is the government s botched gun run tracking sting we have talked about and it allowed thousands of weapons to cross overt mexican border and fall into the hands of some of the most dangerous drug cartels. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles. we ve been waiting for this report for quite some time. what do we expect from it? reporter: there is going to be a lot in there, martha. it s important to tell you for four reasons, number one it goes down as the official record of a u.s. operation already credited with the death of one man and could be tied to as many as 300 more. the department of justice has had the information, they refused to give it out. the inspector general s report could tell us numbers if not names. secondly the scope, the brian terry family, members of congress, the public have gone almost two years on this.
2012 we have pursued this from the time i became chairman on behalf of senator grassley. it happens there is an election coming up. but an investigation in which you are stonewalled for nearly two years is inevitablely going to have an intervening period. free legal advice, it does have political ramifications. some would say obama administration, it s good to keep them hung out to dry before the election. they have to deal with it politically. in light of that, in light of brian terry family should get answers, why don t you request expedited kgs by the judge and justice department can join in and get a filing from the justice department answering yours and judge has to decide this case. there is no reason to take more than a month. that way it won t be involved in a political aspect and terry
2012 we have pursued this from the time i became chairman on behalf of senator grassley. it happens there is an election coming up. but an investigation in which you are stonewalled for nearly two years is inevitablely going to have an intervening period. free legal advice, it does have political ramifications. some would say obama administration, it s good to keep them hung out to dry before the election. they have to deal with it politically. in light of that, in light of brian terry family should get answers, why don t you request expedited kgs by the judge and justice department can join in and get a filing from the justice department answering yours and judge has to decide this case. there is no reason to take more than a month. that way it won t be involved in a political aspect and terry