New revelations point to a Darrell Issa conspiracy

http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/062812_issa/new-revelations-point-darrell-issa-conspiracy/

Posted Jun 28, 2012, 3:58 pm

Jimmy Zuma TucsonSentinel.com

June 28, Washington DC – Bombshell reporting in Fortune Magazine and the Washington Post sheds new light on the festering, wormy mess that is Darrell Issa’s Fast and Furious investigation. Fortune reports that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation was nothing like U.S. Rep. Issa has claimed. In fact, Fast and Furious was so different that it is virtually impossible for Issa to be so utterly misinformed. He appears to be lying. 

Let’s catch up…
ATF never bought, held or had '2,000 guns'

Fortune reported that the “2,000 guns” often named by Issa, a California Republican, as having been a part of the program were actually guns that were purchased ordinarily by suspected straw purchasers who were under investigation. They were not guns purchased by ATF, with ATF funds, or for ATF investigations.

As it turns out, only five guns appear to have been purchased with ATF funds. They were all part of an operation conducted by ATF Agent John Dodson, congressman Issa’s ostensible “whistle-blower.” So it appears that John Dodson described his own operation, but made it sound like everyone was doing it. In reality, his investigation was the only example among seven ATF gun-running units.

Given where he worked, Dodson too, could not have been honestly mistaken. Though not proven, he appears to have made inaccurate claims about the other 1,995 guns under investigation, which would be perjury if he had made them under oath instead of under federal protections for whistleblowers.

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Guns recovered from the Brian Terry shooting were not ATF guns

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