Obama Asserts Executive Privilege On Fast And Furious Documents

[Smilo]

20. Yes F&F was a stupid and moronic idea and sadly a border agent was killed,

but what is Issa doing about all those gun shops and independent people along the (esp. TX) border selling as many as they can to the Mexican cartels?

Has Issa any intention of investigating "Project Gunrunner"? started under GWB?

The redneck GOPT are shouting about this being a Bill of Rights issue and an attack on gun ownership here in the US - the NRA is a powerful lobbying group - and would love to see a new administration in power in Nov.

From Wikipedia....

On February 2008, William Hoover, Assistant Director for Field Operations of ATF, testified before the U.S. Congress that over 90% of the firearms that have either been recovered in, or interdicted in transport to Mexico originated from various sources within the United States.[135] The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and others have disagreed with these figures, pointing that the Mexican sample submitted for ATF tracing is the fraction of weapons seized that appear to have been made in the U.S. or imported into the U.S....................
Gun-rights groups in the U.S. use lower firearm tracing figures that advance their goals [138] while U.S. gun control advocates use higher figures to call for re-enactment of the expired Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994-2004.
Project Gunrunner
ATF Project Gunrunner has a stated official objective to stop the sale and export of guns from the United States into Mexico in order to deny Mexican drug cartels the firearms considered "tools of the trade".[140] However, in February 2008 it brought about a scandal when the project was accused of accomplishing the opposite by ATF permitting and facilitating 'straw purchase' firearm sales to traffickers, and allowing the guns to 'walk' and be transported to Mexico. Several of the guns sold under the Project Gunrunner were recovered from crime scenes in Arizona, and at crime scenes throughout Mexico, resulting in considerable controversy.

Having said all that I think Holder is a moron - he has implicated and made vulnerable the POTUS - who we all know the GOPT are just looking for any little excuse to take down especially in an election year. Holder was the wrong man for the job and he has screwed up several times. He needs to go away.