Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has requested a briefing with the Justice Department over a news report that U.S. law enforcement officials helped Mexican drug cartels launder millions of dollars into the country.
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee made the request in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, in which he questioned DOJ head’s ability to lead the agency.
Issa has been investigating the DOJ’s authorization of a botched gun-tracking operation for most of the year and has increasingly criticized Holder, who is set to appear before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
“The existence of such a program again calls your leadership into question,” said Issa in his letter. “The managerial structure you have implemented lacks appropriate operational safeguards to prevent the implementation of such dangerous schemes. The consequences have been disastrous.”
According to an article published in the New York Times on Sunday, undercover agents with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) helped transport millions of dollars in cash across the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to study and dismantle the trafficking routes of drug cartels.
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It amazes me how our government agencies can deliberately violate our own laws and try to justify their actions by saying they are fighting against criminal activity. Causing otherswise law-abiding gun dealers to violate federal firearms laws and laundering money under the guise of wanting to find out what routes were being used sound like excuses for incompetence or deliberate corruption.
No this is a plan to put more laws on the books against us having guns. Like Newt wants to do. Have our thumb prints taken for each gun we buy and put it in the federal data base. Also Newt wants the guns stamped as well. Be very wary of this man. He knows how to talk to make it sound good but in the end it goes against you. Ask the republicans when he was speaker of the house, what a two faced person he is.