The Truth about Fast & Furious

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19. So which is it?

Eric Holder's sworn testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,?

OR: 5 unnamed law enforcement agents, who tell Fortune that ATF didn't do what Eric Holder, testified that they did?

As political pressure has mounted, ATF and Justice Department officials have reversed themselves. After initially supporting Group VII agents and denying the allegations, they have since agreed that the ATF purposefully chose not to interdict guns it lawfully could have seized. Holder testified in December that "the use of this misguided tactic is inexcusable, and it must never happen again."



Quite simply, there's a fundamental misconception at the heart of the Fast and Furious scandal. Nobody disputes that suspected straw purchasers under surveillance by the ATF repeatedly bought guns that eventually fell into criminal hands. Issa and others charge that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to walk as an operational tactic. But five law-enforcement agents directly involved in Fast and Furious tell Fortune that the ATF had no such tactic.

I'm a little confused, am i supposed to believe our Attorney General when he gives sworn testimony before a house committee, or am i supposed to believe 5 anonymous law enforcement agents, giving interviews to a fortune reporter?



Our attorney general wouldn't lie under oath, to a congressional committee, now would he?