{"id":23214,"date":"2011-05-04T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T18:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23214"},"modified":"2011-05-04T14:31:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T18:31:50","slug":"gunrunner-causes-furor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23214","title":{"rendered":"Gunrunner causes furor"},"content":{"rendered":"

On that whistleblower-fueled story that we’ve discussed several times in the past few months about the “Project Gun Runner” project of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives which allowed legally purchased firearms by suspect purchasers, ghost to Mexico to the grubby paws of the drug cartels. Fox News<\/a> reports that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) grilled AG Holder pretty thoroughly over the subject. <\/p>\n

“We’re not looking at straw buyers, Mr. Attorney General, we’re looking at you,” Issa said. “We’re looking at you, we’re looking at your key people who knew or should’ve known about this.”<\/p>\n

Holder shot back.<\/p>\n

“The notion that somehow or another that this Justice Department is responsible for those deaths, that assertion is offensive,” Holder said, referring to the death of American Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.<\/p>\n

“What if it’s accurate, Mr. Attorney General?” Issa responded. “What am I going to tell Agent Terry’s mother about how he died at the hands of a gun that was videotaped as it was being sold to a straw purchaser fully expecting it to end up in the hands of drug cartels?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So everything is “offensive” when Holder is confronted with actual facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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