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And furious that the justice department provided to congress back in february of 2011. a democratic lawmaker asked this morning about the rationale originally for allowing guns to flow south of the border to the mexican drug cart sell. did the agents have bad motives? did they just fail to consider the public risk involved? having a long time investigate ever strategy that dismantled a large organization was the greater good they were undertaking, to dismantle the organization, stop the trafficking, and that is what they believed was in the best interest of the public safety. we found that was an incorrect calculation. the report found assistant attorney general who was head of the criminal division failed to inform his superiors when he became aware that similar gun walking operations had been conducted by at tf during the bush area. the criminal chief was breur ....
Professional responsibility. so i call this a fast and furious principle. you move up in the organization based on the investigation. brian: especially the attorney general taking a pounding about this. the assistant director of a field operation, he had a chance to put an end to these risky tactics. he didn t. now he s in charge of the baltimore field office. william hoover, go up the chain of command, he was the deputy director of field operations. it s said he turned a blind eye to risky gun walking operations and order an exit strategy, but never followed up. brian: he s got a great new job. so he now is the brian: special agent in charge of washington s field office. rick: mr. nelson, the acting atf director, he had a long career and storied career in criminal justice, now he s out. no longhorn the acting director. we have a new acting director. we don t have a permanent director. and so now he s advising on forensic science. brian: you re in charge of the organiza ....
The guns, and brian terry s murder, number two, that it was impossible that doj did not know that they were walking guns because they approved that wiretap application buy is very specific. and number three of other gun walking operations in texas, where the atf did not go and land on these bad guys when they witnessed gun buying and allowed them to buy weapons that later killed ice agent jaime zapata. martha: thank you so much. william la jeunesse. greg: a bi-partisan group of 100 lawmakers sending a message to the super committee. that message is go big. they say the committee should aim for $4 trillion in deficit reduction and not 1.2 trillion. two of the men who signed that letter are with me now. new york congressman michael grim, a republican and member of the house financial services committee. tim cooper, a memorandum pwefr the oversight and government reform committee. gentlemen, it s an honor to have goat both of you. ....
Ridiculous. we ve had to pull this information out thanks to congressman issa and senator grassley. they have been taking the lead on the investigation. but i have an unanswered letter that i have written to the attorney general asking him about gun walking operations that eminated from texas. there is also another federal age sent, jaime zapata, killed in mexico last year, early this year, and i ve asked whether that murder was also connected to this operation. so we don t have many answers and the attorney general when he comes and testifies before the judiciary committee next week we ll have a lot of questions for him. hope he is forthright answering them. bill: the e-mails doesn t prove anything in your view just yet, it just raises more questions for you? well, lanny breuer s statement contradicts eric holder s sworn testimony before the house. eric holder said he learned about this operation a ....
Accounting. william lajeunesse is here with details. what else do we know about this legislation? the senator is responding to reports that there were some gun walking operations in texas as well as in phoenix and tucson, as well as maybe even tampa. so he s turning off the tap, no more money. if there is any operation that even resembles gun walking or letting guns go, no money for that at all. but attorney general holder has said earlier this spring that he would stop any and all operations involving gun walking. trace: what do we know about these reports of a third gun found at the scene of brian terry s death? following that when ryan terry s family was down in tucson, they were told there was a third gun found at the scene and also we have taped conversations from the case agent from this saying there was a third gun found at the scene. today the f.b.i., which up until now has not released one field report or lab report or even a narrative of what happened there in december, ....