PA Bill Number: HB1472
Title: In primary and election expenses, further providing for reporting by candidate and political committees and other persons and for late contributions ...
Description: In primary and election expenses, further providing for reporting by candidate and political committees and other persons and for late contrib ...
Last Action: Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT
Last Action Date: Apr 22, 2024
Committee Report -- "The Department of Justice's Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents" with promises of future reports. :: 06/16/2011
Highlights of the report include:
- The supervisor of Operation Fast and Furious was "jovial, if not, not giddy but just delighted about" walked guns showing up at crime scenes in Mexico according to an ATF agent. (p. 37)
- Another ATF agent told the committee about a prediction he made a year ago that "someone was going to die" and that the gunwalking operation would be the subject of a Congressional investigation. (p. 24)
- The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords created a "state of panic" within the group conducting the operation as they initially feared a "walked" gun might have been used. (p. 38)
- One Operation Fast and Furious Agent: "I cannot see anyone who has one iota of concern for human life being okay with this ..." (p. 27)
- An ATF agent predicted to committee investigators that more deaths will occur as a result of Operation Fast and Furious. (p.39) http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/06/committee-report-department-of-justices.htmlBREAKING: Explosive 'Fast and Furious' report quotes ATF whistleblowers
Wednesday morning's second hearing on Operation Fast and Furious before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform could be devastating for Justice Department officials because of a report released Tuesday evening quoting four ATF whistleblowers who say that "preventing loss of life was not a primary concern" of their supervisors.
Pacific Northwest gun owners who have been diligently following this story can listen to a live stream of the hearings here starting at 7 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
Operation Fast and Furious was an off-shoot of the larger Project Gunrunner, conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. This controversial operation allowed an estimated 2,000-2,500 guns "walk" into Mexico as ATF field agents were repeatedly ordered to "stand down" by their supervisors.
"ATF agents have shared chilling accounts of being ordered to stand down as criminals in Arizona walked away with guns headed for Mexican drug cartels.
