Justice department wanted this information. i have referenced a number that the department of justice, the deputy attorney general james cole who, authorized this and has the answers. have you talked to him? will you talk to him? we definitely have a lot of and an increasing number of questions for the deputy attorney general. we will be communicating with him, both in terms of asking all of these questions and in terms of the possibility of having him before the committee to answer the questions. we will follow the truth, whether it leads. i want to bring up something that a colleague of yours, across the hill on the same side of the aisle, senator jon cornyn said. the gun-walking operation, fast & furious, he said, i think it s past time for him to go. any sense that you have that there will be other calls for the resignation of the attorney general or that he will resign? well, there has been a lots
They broke into a birthday party and started firing and before it was over 14 innocent boys and girls dead and 12 more rounded. according to uni vision, three of the heavy weapons used in the bloody murders were linked to fast and furious. while the notorious gun walking operation played a role in that and other terrible crimes inside mexico it had nothing to do with the death deuce morning a border patrol agent onng of tuesday morning. investigators are look into the possibility that it was a tragic accident. the result of friendly fire. it was a fog of war incident that led to border patrol agent nicholas ivy s death. deadly confusion in the darkness. we were approximately two miles south of where agent ivy was shot and killed.
Brazier, who filed to provide heating and running water in 15 apartments. he had all 10. president obama has taken a lot of criticism from the right, later this morning we ll examine the examiner s findings that the far left became disenchanted with state senator obama for selling out in their words to the chicago political machine. martha? martha: doug, thank you very much. so for more on the washington examiner special report, the obama you don t know, all 10 parts of that can be read on the washington examiner .com. bill: there are stunning details we re learning about the attack that killed four americans in libya. we ll talk to bret baier in a moment who broke the news that a former gitmo detainee is believed to behind that assault in benghazi. martha: what a story. owe will be here in a moment. brand new info on the botched government gun-walking operation that was linked to this border patrol agent s death s brian
Atf s knowing failures in both of these operations to interaddict firearms illegally destined for mexico and for pursuing this risky strategy without adequately taking into account the significant danger to public safety that it created. shep: the report claims the attorney general, eric holder, who was the main target of the republican-led inquiry, did not know anything about the operation. james rosen live in dc. the inspector general however, did find direct fault with lannie brewer. he is the assistant attorney general in charge of d. o.j. s criminal division. he found fault for what did he or didn t do after he learnd about operation wide receiver. that s the similar gun walking operation that the atf field office in phoenix conducted in 2006 and 07. what we found is to mr. brewer was frankly of whether he read the letter, given what he knew about wide receiver, his responsibility