During the House vote last week that would hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress regarding cooperation in a congressional investigation of Operation Fast and Furious– Oversight Chairman Darryl Issa added a letter to the congressional record which gave explicit detail of the information contained in wiretap applications that would suggest senior officials at the Department of Justice were well aware of the gunwalking.
“The enclosed wiretap affidavit contains clear information that agents were willfully allowing known straw buyers to acquire firearms for drug cartels and failing to interdict them — in some cases even allowing them to walk to Mexico,” The Hill reports Rep. Issa said in a letter sent to his panel’s ranking member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), which was put into the record on Thursday.
“In particular, the affidavit explicitly describes the most controversial tactic of all: abandoning surveillance of known straw purchasers, resulting in the failure to interdict firearms.” Cont. Reading
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