Posted by Kromey at 2:34pm Sep 20 '11This is a new spin on Fast and Furious -- just-released recordings of conversations between a gun dealer at the heart of Fast and Furious and an ATF agent mention a third weapon recovered at the shooting of US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
While we've all heard about the two AK-47 type semi-auto rifles that were traced back to the Lone Wolf gun store in Arizona, sold against the gun store owner's judgment and at the urging of the ATF under their Fast and Furious program, we're now hearing about a third weapon, an SKS semi-auto rifle. What's most interesting though is not that there was a third weapon there -- one not tied to Lone Wolf but still possibly a Fast and Furious gun -- but that the FBI-submitted court documents never mentioned the third weapon found at the crime scene! Why wouldn't the FBI include it in their report? Even if you're trying to cover-up Fast and Furious (and up 'till now there's been no suggestion that the FBI was), why release information on 2 Fast and Furious rifles and suppress any mention of a third?
And here's what else is interesting about these tapes:
While we've all heard about the two AK-47 type semi-auto rifles that were traced back to the Lone Wolf gun store in Arizona, sold against the gun store owner's judgment and at the urging of the ATF under their Fast and Furious program, we're now hearing about a third weapon, an SKS semi-auto rifle. What's most interesting though is not that there was a third weapon there -- one not tied to Lone Wolf but still possibly a Fast and Furious gun -- but that the FBI-submitted court documents never mentioned the third weapon found at the crime scene! Why wouldn't the FBI include it in their report? Even if you're trying to cover-up Fast and Furious (and up 'till now there's been no suggestion that the FBI was), why release information on 2 Fast and Furious rifles and suppress any mention of a third?
And here's what else is interesting about these tapes:
Law enforcement sources and others close to the Congressional investigation say the Justice Department's Inspector General obtained the audio tapes several months ago as part of its investigation into Fast and Furious.This just raises even more questions about what the hell the DoJ is doing investigating this, especially since they themselves have been implicated (although of course not by their own investigation!).
Then, the sources say for some reason the Inspector General passed the tapes along to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona: a subject in the investigation. It's unclear why the Inspector General, who is supposed to investigate independently, would turn over evidence to an entity that is itself under investigation.