Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Dave Workman: Holiday fireworks as Grassley reveals crucial ATF memo.

Link here.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Senator Charles Grassley revealed a crucial memo from a field agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that reinforces suspicions that the Justice Department knew information in a controversial letter to the senator was false.
In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, which may be read here, Grassley asks who saw this memo, allegedly forwarded to Justice Department headquarters one day before then-Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich sent the infamous letter insisting that the ATF had never allowed guns to be walked.

3 comments:

Dedicated_Dad said...

G*d knows I don't want to support The Enemy, but...

I don't see any smoking-gun in that memo - the guy said he never saw any guns go into Mexico. Otherwise, there were some troubling facets to the things he DID say, I didn't see anything to support the "they were lying and they knew it" accusation...

Maybe I missed something - wouldn't be the first time - but...

Bueller?

Dedicated_Dad said...

OK - after more thought I'd come up with an answer, then had it validated for me by a new post above.

The "smoking gun" here was the inflated "tracing" numbers?

theaton said...

..."and provided the ATF Form 4473s"

Why would the ATF have these forms in their possession? Aren't they supposed to remain in the custody of the FFL? Isn't it a violation of the law for the ATF to photocopy the full Form?

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." -Thomas Jefferson