New York Times, Sept. 20 The Justice Department’s inspector general on Wednesday
issued a scathing critique of federal officials for their handling of
the botched gun-trafficking case known as Operation Fast and Furious, but essentially exonerated Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., whom many Republicans have blamed for the scandal.
In a long-awaited report,
the inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, laid primary blame on what
he portrayed as a dysfunctional and poorly supervised group of
Arizona-based federal prosecutors and agents of the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, describing them as “permeated” by “a
series of misguided strategies, tactics, errors in judgment and
management failures” that allowed a risky strategy to continue despite
the danger to public safety...
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