Fred Lucas
CNSNews.com
9/20/2012
The White House’s refusal to release communications related to the Fast and Furious gun-walking program and the refusal of a White House official to be interviewed about the matter “made it impossible” for the inspector general (IG) of the Justice Department to “pursue that aspect of the case,” the IG, Michael Horowitz, testified.
He added that the sought-after White House interview and communications constituted “a lead we wanted to follow.”…
…“Well, as we noted in the report, and as you know, congressman, we did not get internal communications from the White House and Mr. O’Reilly’s unwillingness to speak to us made it impossible for us to pursue that angle of the case and the question that had been raised.”
Farenthold: “So it would probably be worthwhile for us to pursue?”
Horowitz: “Well, certainly we have sought to pursue every lead we could. So, I can tell you, from our standpoint it was a lead we wanted to follow.”
The report, A Review of ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious and Related Matters, was released yesterday by the office of the inspector general…
The complete article, plus video of the exchange, is at CNSNews.com
Related: Issa on F&F report: It “showed what went wrong all the way to the very top of Justice”
Obama: You know, the IG report should really put an end to all this criticism of Eric Holder
