{"id":15906,"date":"2012-09-21T14:37:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T18:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15906"},"modified":"2012-09-21T14:37:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T18:37:19","slug":"doj-fast-furious-report-leads-to-resignation-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15906\/doj-fast-furious-report-leads-to-resignation-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Fast &#038; Furious Report Leads to Resignation, Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2012\/09\/21\/morning-bell-5-ways-fast-furious-tarnishes-eric-holders-justice-department-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lachlan Markay<\/a> of the Heritage Foundation excerpts the top five findings of the Justice Department non-partisan Inspector General\u2019s Fast and Furious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/oig\/reports\/2012\/s1209.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The report singles out top Department of Justice officials for wrongdoing<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The report appears to contradict sworn testimony by Attorney General Eric Holder<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The report faults top Justice Department leadership with failing to adequately respond to the murder of an American border patrol agent<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The White House refused to disclose any internal communications to the inspector general<\/p>\n<p>5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The report fails to consider evidence that a top DOJ official knew the department misled Congress<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2012-09-19\/us\/us_us-fast-furious-report_1_atf-chief-kenneth-melson-larry-alt-operation-fast\" target=\"_blank\">fallout<\/a> has been swift.\u00a0 On the day the report was released Kenneth Melson, the former acting head of ATF \u2013 the DOJ bureau in charge of Fast and Furious \u2013 retired, while the DOJ\u2019s Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, resigned.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Attorney General Eric Holder has escaped culpability for the gun-walking program that originated on his watch.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll see if congressional Republican investigators use the IG\u2019s report to close the books on Fast and Furious, or use the Obama White House\u2019s refusal to cooperate as proof that more sleuthing needs to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lachlan Markay of the Heritage Foundation excerpts the top five findings of the Justice Department non-partisan Inspector General\u2019s Fast and Furious report: 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The report singles out top Department of Justice officials for wrongdoing 2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The report appears to contradict sworn testimony by Attorney General Eric Holder 3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The report faults top Justice Department leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,84,1453,498,2847,3160,44],"class_list":["post-15906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-department-of-justice","tag-eric-holder","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-gun","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15906"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15911,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15906\/revisions\/15911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}