Political Quotes

“The Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms is a division of the Justice Department. I have been investigating Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms' Operation Fast and Furious for almost 11 months now. It is past time for accountability at the senior levels of the Justice Department. That accountability needs to start with the head of the criminal division, Lanny Breuer. I believe it is time for him to go, and I wish to explain why I have come to that conclusion. The Justice Department denied, in a letter to me on February 4, 2011, that ATF had ever walked guns. Mr. Breuer had been consulted in the drafting of that erroneous letter of February 4, this year. On May 2, 2011, rather than acknowledging the increasingly obvious facts and apologizing for its February letter, the Justice Department reiterated its denial on May 2, this year, the same denial of February 4th. Thus, when the Justice Department revealed on October 31 of this year that Breuer had known as far back as April 2010 about gunwalking at ATF, I was astounded. That was a shocking revelation. The controversy about gunwalking in Fast and Furious has been escalating steadily for 10 months now. The Justice Department had publicly denied to Congress that ATF would ever walk guns. Yet, the head of the criminal division, Mr. Breuer, knew otherwise and said nothing. He knew the same field division was responsible for walking guns in a 2006-2007 case, and that case was called Wide Receiver. But the real shock was how Mr.…”