Amidst Holder Contempt Vote, New Report Undermines Key GOP Claims on "Fast and the Furious"
June 28, 2012
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12:47Now PlayingAmidst Holder Contempt Vote, New Report Undermines Key GOP Claims on "Fast and the Furious"
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as posted by the channelDemocracyNow.org - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder faces a contempt vote by the House of Representatives today in a dispute involving an alleged botched gun-running probe. Republican lawmakers have accused Holder of withholding documents about a gun-running sting operation on the U.S.-Mexico border code named "Fast and Furious." For months, Republican lawmakers have alleged that U.S. agents encouraged the sale of thousands of guns to middlemen for Mexican drug cartels in an attempt to gain access to senior-level figures within Mexico's criminal organizations. Federal agents then lost track of as many as 2,500 guns. But a new six-month investigation by Katherine Eban in Fortune magazine concludes that federal agents "never intentionally allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels." Eban joins us to discuss her findings.
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