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The Obama Administration is Planning a Second-Term Attack on Gun Rights
Why would a government employee refuse to testify under oath about a government operation? Patrick Cunningham, chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona, repeatedly refused to give a deposition to investigators digging into "Operation Fast and Furious." When Rep. Darrell Issa subpoenaed Cunningham, the Justice Department employee responded through his private attorney that he'd be invoking his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.
For more than a year now, Attorney General Eric Holder has insisted that there was no wrongdoing in "Operation Fast and Furious." But one of his own attorneys is refusing to go on the record about the operation that put thousands of guns in the hands of Mexican cartel members? If Holder were honest, he would have come clean about "Fast and Furious" months ago. Instead, the Justice Department has dragged on the investigation for months, throwing roadblocks in the way of congressional investigators and engaging in desperate spin to avoid responsibility for the infamous operation.
The American people deserve answers, and it is unconscionable that employees of the Justice Department are refusing to give them. Then again, the head of the Department of Justice didn't provide any satisfactory answers in his recent testimony before Rep. Issa and the House Oversight Committee. Instead, the attorney general attacked members of Congress for daring to question previous statements that have been proven false, and actually whined that he hasn't received enough credit for the good things done under his watch.
The former head of the DEA office in Tucson, Ariz., recently told the Daily Caller website that knowledge of gun walking in "Fast and Furious" was common outside of the ATF, and that Holder either knew it was happening or was willfully ignorant of the transfer of firearms to the Mexican drug cartels. As more information leaks out, it's obvious that Holder's petulant responses and pathetic excuses simply don't hold water.