Issa to Hold Operation Gunrunner Hearing

By Brenda Walker

06/15/2011

My alarm is set to watch the House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday morning at 10am EDT to investigate Washington’s idiot scheme of sending serious weapons to Mexican drug traffickers in order to track them in a ”sting.” The witness list includes Senator Grassley, family members of Agent Brian Terry who was killed by a Gunrunner weapon, and at least one whistleblower from the ATF.

Chairman Darrell Issa gave an interesting preview of the hearing and the specific issues to be investigated. He emphasized that the program “was not a rogue operation of the ATF… it was wrong fundamentally from the start.”

He also noted how the administration has been careful to say ”it did not authorize” the program but the Attorney General never said he wasn’t aware of it.

At the end of the interview, Issa mentioned that he didn’t believe conspiracy theories flying around and thought the paper trail indicated plain bad thinking on the part of bureaucrats. He may have been referring to Larry Pratt’s assertion that the Gunrunner scheme was really part of the administration’s agenda to quash citizen rights of firearm possession. (You can watch Pratt explain here.)

Rep. Issa questioned Attorney General Eric Holder in early May about the Gunrunner scheme and got little in response. Holder will not appear in Wednesday’s hearing, although an Assistant AG from the Justice Department is listed as a witness. The video below is of the Issa questioning, bracketed by an NRA commenter who pointed out problems with the AG’s answers.

Also just released is a report from the Committee: ”Four ATF Agents Working on Controversial Operation “Fast and Furious’ Tell their Story” (Press release; link to full report).

Highlights include:

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