Senator Grassley Presses BATFE On Project Gunrunner
Friday, February 11, 2011
Pointing to documentation that guns used by Mexican nationals in a shootout with Border Patrol agents were allowed to be sold under suspicious circumstances with the knowledge of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is calling on the agency to fully respond to his inquiries into the case. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in that encounter on Dec. 14 of last year.
Grassley has called the response of BATFE to his original letter on inquiry "little more than delay and denial."
Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich responded to Grassley on Feb. 4 denying the allegations.
Senator Grassley on Feb. 9 wrote Attorney General Eric Holder to again request that BATFE cooperate with his investigation, writing "the Terry family deserves answers."
Grassley stated in the letter that he has documentation for his allegations. "The whistleblowers have expressed a desire to honor agent Terry's memory by disclosing this information. The Justice Department should work to do the same. The best way to honor his memory is to come clean."
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=6243 I'd be willing to bet that some folks had a bad week over this, and would really like to see this all just go away.
The nra getting involved, is the icing on the cake, its bound to make some folks very unhappy.