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Latest attack on Issa reeks of desperation to deflect 'Gunwalker' culpability :: 06/24/2011

The Washington Post is now claiming (as told by conveniently anonymous sources) that Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA, and Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee) was briefed on "Operation Fast and Furious" last year , and did not object:

A chief Republican critic of a controversial U.S. anti-gun-trafficking operation was briefed on ATF's "Fast and Furious" program last year and did not express any opposition, sources familiar with the classified briefing said Tuesday.

Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), who has repeatedly called for top Justice Department officials to be held accountable for the now-defunct operation, was given highly specific information about it at an April 2010 briefing, the sources said.

So let's think about what we're being asked to believe here, shall we? Purveyors of the "Issa knew all along" notion presumably also believe that Attorney General Eric Holder did not know these "highly specific" details (or even the very existence of the operation), until around April of this year , as he explained to the House Judiciary Committee on May 3:

Congressman Issa: When did you first know about the program, officially, I believe, called "Fast and Furious"? To the best of your knowledge, what date?

Attorney General Holder: I'm not sure about the exact date, but I probably heard about "Fast and Furious" for the first time over the last few weeks [Senator Charles Grassley had been sending letters to Holder asking about the operation since at least mid-February, by the way].

And about this "highly specific information"--how "highly specific"? Seattle Gun Rights Examiner Dave Workman yesterday quoted an Issa staffer responding this way:

Like they were going to walk into a classified meeting and tell us "Here's this great plan, we're going to let the guns go to Mexico. That's the plan."

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