WASHINGTON – The Justice Department
on Friday provided Congress with documents detailing how the department
gave inaccurate information to a U.S. senator in the controversy
surrounding Operation Fast and Furious, the flawed law enforcement
initiative aimed at dismantling major arms trafficking networks on the
Southwest border.
In a letter last February to Charles Grassley,
the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Justice
Department said that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had not
sanctioned the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser and that
the agency makes every effort to intercept weapons that have been
purchased illegally. In connection with Operation Fast and Furious, both
statements have turned out to be incorrect.
In a letter to the ATF last January,
Grassley said the Senate Judiciary Committee had received allegations
that the law enforcement agency had sanctioned the sale of hundreds of
assault weapons to suspected straw purchasers. Grassley also wrote that
two of the guns had been used in a shootout that killed customs agent
Brian Terry. More Read
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