Project GunRunner-Friction Growing

Friction Grows Between Lawmakers and DOJ Over 'Project Gunrunner' Probe

By William Lajeunesse

Published May 04, 2011

| FoxNews.com

It started with one whistleblower, but now involves dozens of investigators, has created a standoff between the Department of Justice and lawmakers and threatens Mexico’s diplomatic relationship with the United States.

Friction is growing over the probe into the failed “Project Gunrunner” program -- run by the Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms that intended to stop the flow of guns to criminals in Mexico. Whistleblowers claim the bureau actually encouraged the illegal sale of firearms to known criminals, then allowed those guns to be smuggled to Mexico and tracked.

On Tuesday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) went after Attorney General Eric Holder for refusing to answer questions and subpoenas for documents that implicate who approved the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives project that allowed guns purchased illegally in U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico on behalf of the drug cartels with the knowledge and consent of the ATF.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/04/friction-grows-lawmakers-doj-project-gunrunner-probe/#ixzz1LP4mVTna

...but they'd like to ban our guns! go figure..

IMO this was why Hillary was pushing things against the 2nd Amendment rights, by blaming Americans for the violence in Mexico.

you gotta wonder how that plays into the whole UN treaty thing...

If this had happened under W's watch, you can bet the press would be all over it! Saying his subordinates were out of control.

Personally I think Holder should be chopping heads here. The ATF has always been a joke and deserves a good cleansing.

Holder may be part of the problem.