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Investigations Into BATFE Accelerate (A Crude Chronology Since late March 2011) - Ed Jewett - 10-10-2011
Dozens of Fast and Furious Weapons Found in Mexico Cartel Enforcer's Home
October 9th, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times:High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF's Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in the Mexican drug wars.
In all, 100 assault weapons acquired under Fast and Furious were transported 350 miles from Phoenix to El Paso, making that West Texas city a central hub for gun traffickers. Forty of the weapons made it across the border and into the arsenal of Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, a feared cartel leader in Ciudad Juarez, according to federal court records and trace documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The smugglers' tactics quickly moving the weapons far from ATF agents in southern Arizona, where it had been assumed they would circulate vividly demonstrate that what had been viewed as a local problem was much larger. Six other Fast and Furious guns destined for El Paso were recovered in Columbus, N.M.
"These Fast and Furious guns were going to Sinaloans, and they are killing everyone down there," said one knowledgeable U.S. government source, who asked for anonymity because of the ongoing investigations. "But that's only how many we know came through Texas. Hundreds more had to get through."
Torres Marrufo, also known as "the Jaguar," has been identified by U.S. authorities as the enforcer for Sinaloa cartel chieftain Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman. The Fast and Furious weapons were found at one of Torres Marrufo's homes April 30 when Mexican police inspected the property. It was unoccupied but "showed signs of recent activity," they said.
The basement had been converted into a gym with a wall covered with built-in mirrors. Behind the mirrors they found a hidden room with the Fast and Furious weapons and dozens more, including an antiaircraft machine gun, a sniper rifle and a grenade launcher.
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Investigations Into BATFE Accelerate (A Crude Chronology Since late March 2011) - Ed Jewett - 10-10-2011
'Fast and Furious' Hypocrisy: Where Was Fox News When the Pentagon 'Lost' 200,000 Weapons in Iraq?
October 9, 2011 by legitgov
ShareThis'Fast and Furious' Hypocrisy: Where Was Fox News When the Pentagon 'Lost' 200,000 Weapons in Iraq? --Faux News and Darrell Issa - not so fast, not so furious when it came to investigating the Bush regime for hundreds of thousands of weapons that went missing in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and likely landed in the hands of insurgents! By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 10 Oct 2011 Where, also, was the *outcry* for investigations and subpoenas -- and 24/7 coverage by Fox -- when the Coalition Provisional Authority's billion$ went missing?Investigations Into BATFE Accelerate (A Crude Chronology Since late March 2011) - Ed Jewett - 10-10-2011
Mexicans Irate About Fast and Furious, Wide Receiver
[COLOR=#696969 !important]Posted: 10/9/11 08:45 AM ETMexican politicians, analysts and the general public are irate after learning this week that Operation Fast and Furious, the US federal program that allowed more than 2,000 military-style weapons to flow illegally into Mexico between 2009 and 2010, happens to be copycat of a previous undercover and similarly illicit sting called Wide Receiver, an operation ran between 2006 and 2007.
More than 40,000 people have been killed in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon declared war on drug cartels on December 2006, same year of the launching of Operation Wide Receiver, which officially -and conservatively speaking- allowed some 500 fire-arms to "walk" across the border and get to the hands of organized crime.
The Mexican Senate demanded President Felipe Calderon to protest before the United States government and complained about both the Fast and Furious and Wide Receiver operations, Thursday. The president of the Senate's public safety committee, Felipe Gonzalez, said that he will protest against US federal agents running secret operations in Mexican soil.
An editorial in the daily "La Jornada" regarding the two gunrunning programs, questioned whether the US is an "ally or enemy" of Mexico (link in Spanish).
"While the Bush administration negotiated and signed the Merida Initiative -agreement of bilateral assistance through which Washington made a commitment to guide, counsel and equip Mexican authorities- the artillery's capabilities of delinquent organizations south of the Rio Bravo were being fed from an office in Washington," wrote the left-leaning newspaper.
The Calderon administration has firmly protested against the cited stings and has consistently affirmed that 80 percent of the weapons seized to Mexican criminal groups have been traced back to the US. Furthermore, Mexico's attorney general Marisela Morales called Operation Fast and Furious "an attack on Mexicans' security."
Morales told the Mexican press over a week ago -at that time, unaware of the additional US gunrunning probe- she had demanded a full explanation from the United States government, and also confirmed that at least 200 murders have occurred in Mexico as a result of Operation Fast and Furious.
Back in the US, while House Republicans are calling for a special counsel to find out if Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on the controversial program, President Barack Obama voiced "complete confidence" in him.
"He [Holder] has been very aggressive in going after gunrunning and cash transactions that have been going to these transnational drug cartels," Obama said during a White House press conference, Thursday.
Still, the House legislators insist in finding out what Holder knew and when he learned about it. In the month of May, Holder testified under oath: "I'm not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."
Rep. Raul Labrador, an Idaho Republican, called on Holder to resign after "Fast and Furious" documentswere released showing he had been timely informed, through at least five memos beginning July 2010.
"I was careful to not jump to any conclusions about the extent of Mr. Holder's involvement. However, the recently published documents that directly link Mr. Holder to Fast and Furious have convinced me that he is either lying or grossly incompetent," Labrador said in a release.
Fast and Furious, run by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF,) between 2009 and 2010, allowed the illegal purchase of more than 2,000 weapons -including .50-caliber sniper rifles- many of which were smuggled to Mexico with the alleged intention to track them down and locate Mexican drug lords. The intended strategy on tracing the devices was never executed. Some later were traced to murders of police and civilians in Mexico and in the US, in two separate crime scenes in March, and December 2010. In this last incident, two Operation Fast and Furious weapons were found at the site where US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot and killed, south of Tucson. No more details about Wide Receiver -also ran by ATF- have been released as yet.
Last week, Texas Governor Rick Perry, currently running for the Republican presidential nomination, said at a town hall in New Hampshire that he would consider deploying American troops to Mexico to help fight the cartels. "It is very important for us to work with them to keep that country from failing," he explained.
Perry's suggestion came under fire immediately. "US boots on the ground in Mexico is not in the books," said Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico's ambassador to the United States.
Generally speaking, the Mexican population perceives the US high demand for illicit drugs, and the illegal traffic of weapons, as the main reasons for the bloodshed and increasing brutality south of the border.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aurelia-fierros/mexicans-irate-about-fast_b_1001109.html
Investigations Into BATFE Accelerate (A Crude Chronology Since late March 2011) - Ed Jewett - 10-10-2011
Impeach Eric Holder
The attorney general has lied to Congress
Sunday, October 09, 2011
By Jack Kelly , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
It's time for Congress to...
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11282/1180457-373.stm#ixzz1aLqNypXc
Investigations Into BATFE Accelerate (A Crude Chronology Since late March 2011) - Ed Jewett - 10-10-2011
Local early morning radio host Chris Stigall landed a huge interview with CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson this Thursday on 1210 WPHT.
The Washington bureau reporter has been at the center of a political firestorm since disclosing that White House Associate Communications Director Eric Schultz "literally screamed at me and cussed at me," after she pursued a CBS investigation into the Justice Department's (DOJ) botched "Fast and Furious" operation.
Investigations into the fallout of the debacle seem to implicate one cabinet level official of misleading a congressional hearing and may encompass the Departments of Justice, State, and Homeland Security.
Fast and Furious itself involved DOJ's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF) funneling hundreds of guns into Mexico for intelligence gathering purposes. US officials lost track of the weapons, which have since been linked to a series of deaths involving drug cartels as well as the murder of border patrol agent Brian Perry last December.
This Thursday, Philadelphia CBS radio host Chris Stigall interviewed his colleague regarding her investigation, asking her to put the story's significance into perspective.
"Since the very beginning, those who knew a lot more about this case than I did, including officials who work for the Obama Administration this is nothing particularly against him or anyone else who happened to be in charge they have said this is bigger than Iran Contra. They have said this is bigger than Watergate." Attkisson replied.
The CBS investigative reporter also noted, "The idea that this started as one whistleblower that pretty much all the officials were painting out to be a liar an ATF agent in Phoenix. And to see where this has moved over the months to officials admitting, okay this program was going on but it was isolated to Phoenix, Arizona. Then saying, okay people did know about it at ATF headquarters, but that's where it stopped. To saying, ok the White House and DOJ did know about Fast & Furious but they didn't know about the details."
Stigall asked Attkisson whether Justice Department head Eric Holder was aware of the operation when he testified before Congress in May.
Attkisson answered that, "Fast and Furious was mentioned at least as far back in memos to the Attorney General as July, 2010. There are briefings from two different organizations, the National Drug Intelligence Center that went directly to the Attorney General as well as from Lanny Breuer, the head of his criminal division in DOJ that mentioned Fast and Furious."
She then elaborated, "And not just in passing, not just one sentence these are paragraphs that discuss they don't say anything about gun walking. They don't say we're letting guns walk into Mexico. But they say things like we have a program going on that's getting ready for prosecution this is called Fast and Furious. And it's resulting in over 1,000 guns that are…being found in Mexico with the drug cartels. It mentions specific cartels in some cases. I mean, it's there. And we don't have all the briefings. We don't know what verbal briefings took place. And we don't have all the documents yet. These are partial documents that have been turned over by the Department of Justice to congress."
The Philadelphia radio host then queried, "Do you believe Sharyl that this goes beyond the Department of Justice because of the international nature and the homeland security nature? I have read people surmising that this has to involve almost by definition it must involve the Secretary of State's office and the Department of Homeland Security."
"Congress is trying to find that out, they've been asking for documents from the State Department and other departments and haven't always gotten well, they haven't gotten a lot of what they asked for, so they don't know yet." Attkisson replied.
Chris Stigall's interview with Sharyl Attkisson not only illustrated Eric Holder's prior knowledge of Fast and Furious; it revealed the unfolding story's scope to be far greater than what first appeared an embarrassment for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
That questions about who knew what when' span multiple federal departments indicate this may be only the tip of a sizable political iceberg.
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Investigations Into BATFE Accelerate (A Crude Chronology Since late March 2011) - Ed Jewett - 12-10-2011
Gunwalker: Issa Reveals Drug Enforcement Administration Involvement
"It was a joint operation in which DEA knew more than ATF."
October 11, 2011 - 12:01 am - by Bob Owens
It was a brutal weekend for the Obama administration: Gunwalker continued unraveling at a faster pace, with new developments suggesting that Attorney General Eric Holder may not be the only Obama appointee destined for a political fall and possible criminal charges.
In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa revealed for the first time that the Drug Enforcement Administration was far more involved in running the operation than the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives:
It wasn't an ATF operation. They were part of that. It was a joint operation in which DEA knew more than ATF.
This directly conflicts with prior statements by DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart she claimed that the DEA only played a supporting role and that her DEA agents in El Paso and Phoenix were only "indirectly involved in the ATF operation through DEA-associated investigative activity." She further absolved her agency by claiming that "DEA personnel had no decision-making role in ATF operations" associated with Fast and Furious.The DEA's higher-profile role will not absolve ATF personnel for their roles in carrying out the plot politically, but it could potentially make a difference in future criminal proceedings if ATF agents on the front lines of the operation thought they were participating in a legitimate law enforcement operation.
Unfortunately for the Department of Justice, the higher level of collusion between different federal law enforcement agencies that report to the attorney general make it even more unlikely that Eric Holder and other senior DOJ personnel were unaware of the real goal of the operation.
Issa's committee is in the process of preparing subpoenas for members of the Obama administration to try to find out who authorized the operation, and to ask why they have not been forthcoming if they believed the operations to be legal:
Why are they denying knowing about something that they were briefed on? … Exactly when, the American people want to know, how did it happen?
Issa also revealed for the first time the magnitude of the largest individual gunwalking incidents, noting that one effort involved the shipment of 700 guns to the Sinaloa cartel.Issa continued:
This is about Justice Department knowing, and this is where the American people have a right to know more, knowing that these guns were deliberately intended to end up in the hands of the drug cartels without any kind of traceability, except if you find a gun in the scene of the crime. That is the reason that it is felony and stupid and I use the word "felony" deliberately program.
A massive stockpile containing dozens of Operation Fast and Furious weapons was recovered in Mexico at an arsenal hidden in the Ciudad Juarez home of Sinaloa cartel enforcer Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo. The raid occurred on April 30; the revelation that 40 of the guns were from the gunwalking plot constitutes breaking news and confirmation that the plot worked as designed.Mexican politicians and media are far more enraged than their complacent U.S. counterparts. One op-ed asked if the U.S. should be considered an "ally or enemy." Mexico's Attorney General Marisela Morales, who stated that more than 200 Mexican citizens have been killed with Fast and Furious weapons, referred to the Obama administration plot as "an attack on Mexicans' security."
The mainstream media, perhaps fearing even more damage to their credibility and bottom line, finally started covering the scandal late last week. A sad example of this me-too, late-to-the-game journalism is David Jackson's article at USA Today four paragraphs of current information grafted onto a nine-paragraph blockquote from an existing CBS News article.
House Republicans showed no sign of backing down. One of the most outspoken on this scandal, Rep. Paul Gosar, continued to blast the administration:
Gosar told The Daily Caller that "In Main Street America, you'd never get away with" dissembling about the gun-walking program, and that in different circumstances, "the people who've been responsible would've already been in jail."
A bipartisan group of ten Arizona sheriffs (5 Republican, 5 Democrat) has called for a special counsel to investigate the gunwalking operations, joining House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith and a number of others.Mike Vanderboegh, one of the bloggers who broke open the scandal, is continuing a detailed series of articles that increasingly point to a State Department role in setting up these gunwalking operations. Vanderboegh's sources within the Department are the first to name names, including: Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, and Andrew J. Shapiro, Clinton's assistant secretary for political-military affairs.
State insiders apparently referred to the gunwalking plot as "the Mexican Hat Dance," and claim the goal of the plot was, as we've indicated before, to support the 90-percent lie.
With State and DOJ coming under fire, it seems only a matter of time before evidence comes forth to implicate Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the person that would have been most integral in supporting this plot. Operation Fast and Furious took place in Arizona, where Napolitano had been governor and her former chief of staff, Dennis Burke, was the U.S. attorney theoretically in charge of the multi-agency task force.
In the interim, Holder's letter attacking the messenger last week was returned with even greater force by Issa in a letter which pulled no punches:
Mr. Attorney General, you have made numerous statements about Fast and Furious that have eventually been proven to be untrue. Your lack of trustworthiness while speaking about Fast and Furious has called into question your overall credibility as Attorney General. The time for deflecting blame and obstructing our investigation is over. The time has come for you to come clean to the American public about what you knew about Fast and Furious, when you knew it, and who is going to be held accountable for failing to shut down a program that has already had deadly consequences, and will likely cause more casualties for years to come.
Operation Fast and Furious was the Department's most significant gun trafficking case. It related to two of your major initiatives destroying the Mexican cartels and reducing gun violence on both sides of the border. On your watch, it went spectacularly wrong. Whether you realize yet or not, you own Fast and Furious. It is your responsibility.
With three cabinet-level secretaries and their staffs involved in a plot to create a murderous reality to match White House rhetoric, it seems only a matter of time before subpoenas are directed to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Operation Fast and Furious was the Department's most significant gun trafficking case. It related to two of your major initiatives destroying the Mexican cartels and reducing gun violence on both sides of the border. On your watch, it went spectacularly wrong. Whether you realize yet or not, you own Fast and Furious. It is your responsibility.
Investigations Into BATFE Accelerate (A Crude Chronology Since late March 2011) - Ed Jewett - 12-10-2011
Congressional Investigators to Subpoena Holder in Fast and Furious Probe
By William Lajeunesse
Published October 11, 2011
| FoxNews.com
EXCLUSIVE: Congressional investigators probing the failed anti-gunrunning operation Fast and Furious are sending a new subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder -- seeking communications from about a dozen top Justice Department officials, including Holder; his chief of staff, Gary Grindler; and the head of the department's criminal division, Lanny Breuer, Fox News has learned.
The subpoena, which could be filed as early as Tuesday, will focus on the Justice Department. The first and only subpoena issued so far dealt with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. That subpoena was issued back in March.
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After scathing letter from Attorney General Eric Holder to the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, he responds in kind with a volley back to the Justice Department calling the response a new low.
In the new subpoena, congressional investigators will apparently demand information regarding the investigation into the death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. Two guns found at Terry's crime scene were linked to the failed operation that allowed more than 2,000 weapons to "walk."
The subpoena is expected to ask for correspondence that Justice Department officials had with the White House about the gun trafficking operation, as well as what information was shared by Justice officials in Mexico.
Asked about the development Tuesday, Holder said his department "will undoubtedly comply with them," noting that Justice officials have already sent "thousands of pages of documents up to the Hill."
Holder addressed the matter at the end of a press conference about an alleged Iran-tied terror plot foiled by U.S. investigators. "What I want the American people to understand is that in complying with those subpoenas and dealing with that inquiry, that will not detract us from the important business that we have here to do at the Justice Department, including matters like the one that we have announced today," Holder said.
The new subpoena follows a week of back and forth between congressional investigators and Justice Department officials of "who knew what, when." Under scrutiny was Holder's testimony from May 3 when he told Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., that he "probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."
Fox News obtained documents addressed to Holder as early as nine months before that, which described the concept of Operation Fast and Furious.
On Friday, Holder sent a letter to congressional investigators stating that he does not read every document addressed to him and that they are reviewed by members of his staff. Holder went on to say that none of the reports mentioned the controversial tactics used in Fast and Furious.
On Monday, Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is investigating the scandal, replied to Holder in a letter saying, "Operation Fast and Furious was the department's most significant gun trafficking case. Whether you realize yet or not, you own Fast and Furious. It is your responsibility."
Issa told "Fox News Sunday" that he was going to issue the subpoena to find out why the top Justice officials are "denying knowing about something that they were briefed on?"
"We want to know what and when they knew it," he said. "But more importantly, we have to understand -- at what level of the authorization really come? It wasn't an ATF operation. They were part of that. It was a joint operation in which DEA knew more than ATF."
In addition to the congressional investigation being led by Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is calling for a special counsel to look into the matter.
: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/11/congressional-investigators-to-subpoena-holder-in-fast-and-furious-probe/#ixzz1aWQEBddX
Investigations Into BATFE Accelerate (A Crude Chronology Since late March 2011) - Ed Jewett - 12-10-2011
Bill Conroy, investigative reporter for NarcoNews, joins us to discuss the strange developments in the case of accused Mexican drug trafficker Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla and the broader issue of American intelligence involvement in Latin American drug running. (podcast 56:45)
http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-388-bill-conroy/
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WASHINGTON, D.C. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) today announced the issuance of a subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. for Justice Department documents related to the "Operation Fast and Furious" gun walking scandal.
"Top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Holder, know more about Operation Fast and Furious than they have publicly acknowledged," said Chairman Issa. "The documents this subpoena demands will provide answers to questions that Justice officials have tried to avoid since this investigation began eight months ago. It's time we know the whole truth."
The subpoena seeks the following:
In accordance with the attached schedule instructions, you, Eric H. Holder Jr., are required to produce all records in unredacted form described below:
- All communications referring or relating to Operation Fast and Furious, the Jacob Chambers case, or any Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) firearms trafficking case based in Phoenix, Arizona, to or from the following individuals:
b. David Ogden, Former Deputy Attorney General;
c. Gary Grindler, Office of the Attorney General and former Acting Deputy Attorney General;
d. James Cole, Deputy Attorney General;
e. Lanny Breuer, Assistant Attorney General;
f. Ronald Weich, Assistant Attorney General;
g. Kenneth Blanco, Deputy Assistant Attorney General;
h. Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General;
i. John Keeney, Deputy Assistant Attorney General;
j. Bruce Swartz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General;
k. Matt Axelrod, Associate Deputy Attorney General;
l. Ed Siskel, former Associate Deputy Attorney General;
m. Brad Smith, Office of the Deputy Attorney General;
n. Kevin Carwile, Section Chief, Capital Case Unit, Criminal Division;
o. Joseph Cooley, Criminal Fraud Section, Criminal Division; and,
p. James Trusty, Acting Chief, Organized Crime and Gang Section.
2. All communications between and among Department of Justice (DOJ) employees and Executive Office of the President employees, including but not limited to Associate Communications Director Eric Schultz, referring or relating to Operation Fast and Furious or any other firearms trafficking cases.
3. All communications between DOJ employees and Executive Office of the President employees referring or relating to the President's March 22, 2011 interview with Jorge Ramos of Univision.
4. All documents and communications referring or relating to any instances prior to February 4, 2011 where the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) failed to interdict weapons that had been illegally purchased or transferred.
5. All documents and communications referring or relating to any instances prior to February 4, 2011 where ATF broke off surveillance of weapons and subsequently became aware that those weapons entered Mexico.
6. All documents and communications referring or relating to the murder of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata, including but not limited to documents and communications regarding Zapata's mission when he was murdered, Form for Reporting Information That May Become Testimony (FD-302), photographs of the crime scene, and investigative reports prepared by the FBI.
7. All communications to or from William Newell, former Special Agent-in-Charge for ATF's Phoenix Field Division, between:
a. December 14, 2010 to January 25, 2011; and,
b. March 16, 2009 to March 19, 2009.
8. All Reports of Investigation (ROIs) related to Operation Fast and Furious or ATF Case Number 785115-10-0004.
9. All communications between and among Matt Axelrod, Kenneth Melson, and William Hoover referring or relating to ROIs identified pursuant to Paragraph 7.
10. All documents and communications between and among former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., former Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein referring or relating to Operation Fast and Furious or any OCDETF case originating in Arizona.
11. All communications sent or received between:
a. December 16, 2009 and December 18, 2009, and;
b. March 9, 2011 and March 14, 2011, to or from the following individuals:
- Emory Hurley, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona;
- Michael Morrissey, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona;
- Patrick Cunningham, Chief, Criminal Division, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona;
- David Voth, Group Supervisor, ATF; and,
- Hope MacAllister, Special Agent, ATF.
- Emory Hurley, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona;
a. Dennis Burke, former United States Attorney;
b. Emory Hurley, Assistant United States Attorney;
c. Michael Morrissey, Assistant United States Attorney; and,
d. Patrick Cunningham, Chief of the Criminal Division.
13. All communications sent or received between August 7, 2009 and March 19, 2011 between and among former Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual; Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer; and, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bruce Swartz.
14. All communications sent or received between August 7, 2009 and March 19, 2011 between and among former Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual and any Department of Justice employee based in Mexico City referring or relating to firearms trafficking initiatives, Operation Fast and Furious or any firearms trafficking case based in Arizona, or any visits by Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer to Mexico.
15. Any FD-302 relating to targets, suspects, defendants, or their associates, bosses, or financiers in the Fast and Furious investigation, including but not limited to any FD-302s ATF Special Agent Hope MacAllister provided to ATF leadership during the calendar year 2011.
16. Any investigative reports prepared by the FBI or Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) referring or relating to targets, suspects, or defendants in the Fast and Furious case.
17. Any investigative reports prepared by the FBI or DEA relating to the individuals described to Committee staff at the October 5, 2011 briefing at Justice Department headquarters as Target Number 1 and Target Number 2.
18. All documents and communications in the possession, custody or control of the DEA referring or relating to Manuel Fabian Celis-Acosta.
19. All documents and communications between and among FBI employees in Arizona and the FBI Laboratory, including but not limited to employees in the Firearms/Toolmark Unit, referring or relating to the firearms recovered during the course of the investigation of Brian Terry's death.
20. All agendas, meeting notes, meeting minutes, and follow-up reports for the Attorney General's Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys between March 1, 2009 and July 31, 2011, referring or relating to Operation Fast and Furious.
21. All weekly reports and memoranda for the Attorney General, either directly or through the Deputy Attorney General, from any employee in the Criminal Division, ATF, DEA, FBI, or the National Drug Intelligence Center created between November 1, 2009 and September 30, 2011.
22. All surveillance tapes recorded by pole cameras inside the Lone Wolf Trading Co. store between 12:00 a.m. on October 3, 2010 and 12:00 a.m. on October 7, 2010.
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