.
June 22nd, 2011
12:30 AM ET
AC360 Follow: Congress wants answers on ATF operation
Editor's note: CNN's Drew Griffin reports on how scrutiny of a controversial ATF operation may not end with an expected resignation.
|
|
Filed under: 360° Radar • 360º Follow |
About this Show:
Anderson Cooper goes beyond the headlines to tell stories from many points of view, so you can make up your own mind about the news. Tune in weeknights at 8 and 10 ET on CNN.
Questions or comments? Send an email
Want to know more? Go behind the scenes with AC361°
Subscribe to the podcast
Subscribe to the AC360 podcast on iTunes!
On Twitter
RT @CNN: "26-year-old Cassidy Hutchinson was brave enough, patriotic enough to come forward. 62-year-old Mark Meadows is not."
Watch CNN's…
9:16 pm ET June 29, 2022
RETWEET
RT @CNN: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) avoided CNN and other reporters in Milwaukee Tuesday, refusing to answer questions about the dramatic deve…
10:23 pm ET June 28, 2022
RETWEET
RT @CNN: .@randikayeCNN visits Alabama Women's Center, one of only three abortion clinics that were operating in the state prior to the Sup…
9:35 pm ET June 27, 2022
RETWEET
RT @CNN: Dr. Yashica Robinson, a physician at an Alabama abortion clinic, describes the scene at her clinic as the Supreme Court overturned…
10:17 pm ET June 24, 2022
RETWEET
RT @CNN: The New Yorker writer Dexter Filkins speaks with CNN's @andersoncooper about his recent profile on Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeS…
10:14 pm ET June 20, 2022
RETWEET
RT @CNN: Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has emerged as a pivotal figure in the House select committee's inves…
10:08 pm ET June 16, 2022
RETWEET
RT @CNN: Two Americans who were fighting alongside Ukrainian forces north of Kharkiv have been missing since June 9th. CNN’s @andersoncoope…
9:32 pm ET June 15, 2022
RETWEET
RT @CNN: Police in Duncanville, Texas, killed a gunman who fired his weapon inside of a sports gym where a summer camp was being held. CNN'…
10:59 pm ET June 14, 2022
RETWEET
RT @CNN: According to Russia's state media, Kremlin opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been transferred from a penal colony to a higher s…
10:19 pm ET June 14, 2022
RETWEET
RT @CNN: .@randikayeCNN reports on what’s left of an anti-abortion clinic in Upstate New York that was allegedly firebombed. https://t.co/p…
10:05 pm ET June 10, 2022
RETWEET
RT @CNN: According to US Marshals Service, the woman suspected of killing elite cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in Texas was seen at Newark Libe…
10:38 pm ET June 8, 2022
RETWEET
RT @CNN: Pediatrician Dr. Roy Guerrero tells CNN's @JohnBerman about dealing with the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting. Watch here:…
10:31 pm ET June 8, 2022
RETWEET
Search the AC360 blog
Anderson, firstly, I think you’re an extremely smart man. With that being said, I’d assume even you would believe that just one man (Melson) could NEVER have had the authority or power to do something this HUGE in this operation/scandal just by himself. That’s NOT how our Government works. Eric Holder is the head of the DOJ and Fast and Furious has been going on since 2008, yet he doesn’t know any about it??
The President knows Nothing about it?? That’s outlandish! It's a lose-lose for Holder here. Either he KNEW about it and gave the go ahead (which he should be charged for) or which that he “claims” he didn’t know about after more than 2 1/2 years after the operation started, then he is incompetent to run the DOJ. My feeling is the former…but with the latter swiftly completing the circle.
Something this BIG doesn’t just happen at the lower levels by a couple of people without top DOJ officials knowing and being involved in approving it’s go ahead. It's so obvious to me and MANY that Melson is being used as a scapegoat.
Keep digging! Ken Melson is just a fall guy for higher ups in the Dept of Justice and Whitehouse. Many more heads must roll to clean up this mess. Uncover the ongoing coverup!
Keep digging on this. There are reports that BATFE agents were told to stand down and NOT track these weapons. The end goal was to prop up the lie that 90% of recovered guns from the Mexican Drug Cartels originated in U.S. gun stores. This was nothing but a false flag attack on firearms ownership in America. I would not be surprised if this went all the way to the top.
Seems like shoddy journalism to imply that the US border agent would be alive had the ATF not allowed the weapons to cross the border. The criminals would of gotten the weapons from someone else.
the NRA is fanning the flames on this story because they do not want data tracked on cross border weapons.
Why can't our own government tell the truth and stand up for their mistakes. How is it that members of the ATF are allowed to "resign"? They should be tried for murder. Putting guns in the hands of known criminals so they can be traced to acts of violence and deemed a secret operation? Why don't we just put poison in the American water supply and see if everyone dies? What kind of logic is this? This is gross abuse of power and the blood of their own countrymen are on their hands. Sounds like another cover up that will have thousands of pages of documents with blacked out names and no justice will come of it. The border mess is sickening.