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Operation Fast and Furious

Judge Casts Doubt On Obama Administration's 'Fast And Furious' Move

AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — A federal judge seemed skeptical Wednesday of the Justice Department's bid to dismiss a congressional lawsuit seeking records relat...

Judge Takes Action In Fast And Furious Case

AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has ordered mediation in a lawsuit over congressional efforts to get records related to Operation Fast and Furious, a bu...

Fast And Furious Negotiations Making Progress

AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 03.31.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department reports progress in settlement talks over a lawsuit by a House committee to get records involving the b...

Family Of Slain Border Patrol Agent Sues Feds

AP | JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 02.13.2013 | Politics

PHOENIX — The family of a slain Border Patrol agent has sued federal officials over the botched "Fast and Furious" gun operation, claiming they ...

Jaime Avila Jr. Sentenced

AP | JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 02.11.2013 | Politics

PHOENIX — A man who purchased two rifles found at the scene of the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent north of the U.S.-Mexico border was s...

Fast & Furious Figure To Be Sentenced

Posted 12.12.2012 | Politics

By JACQUES BILLEAUD, ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX -- A man who bought two rifles found at the scene of the fatal shooting a federal agent north the Ari...

'Fast And Furious' Lawsuit Could Be Settled

Reuters | Posted 01.27.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department and for congressional Republicans told a federal judge on Tuesday that they a...

Fast And Furious Watchdog Testifying

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 11.20.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — House Republicans eagerly joined the Justice Department's inspector general in taking the agency to task Thursday for its bungled g...

Investigators Release Massive Fast And Furious Report

Reuters | Posted 11.19.2012 | Politics

The U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog on Wednesday referred 14 employees, including senior official Lanny Breuer, for possible internal disc...

Family Of Slain Border Patrol Agent Demands 'Accountability' For Fast & Furious

Reuters | Posted 11.18.2012 | Politics

By Paul M. Ingram TUCSON, Ariz. Sept 17 (Reuters) - Relatives of a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose murder in the line of duty was linke...

Suspect In Fast And Furious Scandal Arrested

AP | MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN | Posted 09.08.2012 | World

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican federal police announced Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, the s...

GOP House Takes Big Action Against Holder

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 10.13.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Republican-run House on Monday asked a federal court to enforce a subpoena against Attorney General Eric Holder, demanding that...

Issa Announces Action Against Holder

Reuters | Posted 10.13.2012 | Politics

* Issa says lawsuit against Attorney General expected Monday * Move follows June 28 contempt of Congress vote WASHINGTON...

Figure In Fast And Furious Leaves

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 08.02.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The former deputy director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has left the agency following the uproar over a fl...

GOP Fast And Furious Report Lays Blame

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 09.30.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Tuesday that Republican lawmakers are engaging in distortions by asserting that Operation Fast and Furi...

Ignoring the Real Issues Behind Fast and Furious

Joy Strickland | Posted 09.17.2012 | Impact
Joy Strickland

Fast and Furious is another painful example of the giant chasm between the correct statement of the problem and the strategies employed to solve the problem.

Feds Make Big Fast And Furious Disclosure

AP | WHITNEY PHILLIPS | Posted 09.08.2012 | Politics

TUCSON, Ariz. — Authorities made a rare disclosure Monday linked to the botched gun-smuggling investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious,...

Holding Attorneys General in Contempt

Anthony Gregory | Posted 09.02.2012 | Politics
Anthony Gregory

Liberals are right to criticize Republicans for politicizing Fast and Furious. Conservatives are right that Democrats would have called for Gonzales' head if he'd been implicated. Instead we should recognize that the executive branch, regardless of party, sees itself as above the law.

Playing Fast and Furious With a Man's Reputation

Norm Stamper | Posted 08.30.2012 | Politics
Norm Stamper

The country's interest is best served when both the executive and the legislative branches resist partisan showboating and rigorously defend against the politicization of the Department of Justice.

Mother Claims Son's Death Has Ties To Fast And Furious Controversy

Reuters | Posted 08.30.2012 | Politics

By Jared Taylor BROWNSVILLE, Texas, June 29 (Reuters) - The mother of a U.S. federal agent shot to death in Mexico last year said Frid...

DOJ Won't Take Action On Holder

AP | LARRY MARGASAK and PETE YOST | Posted 08.29.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department declared Friday that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to withhold information about a bungled gun-tra...

What's Next After The Holder Vote

Posted 08.29.2012 | Politics

By LARRY MARGASAK AND PETE YOST, AP WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has declared that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to withhold info...

The NRA's 'Fast and Furious' Gun Walking

Robert J. Spitzer | Posted 08.29.2012 | Politics
Robert J. Spitzer

Just as the NRA continues to blame the ATF for the 2000 guns allegedly "walked" into Mexico, the NRA should take the real credit for the "walking" of hundreds of thousands of guns into Mexico, as American agents can do little more than watch.

John Rudolf

Eric Holder Contempt Vote -- Now What?

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 06.29.2012 | Politics

In a nearly party-line vote, Republicans in Congress easily passed a measure on Thursday citing Attorney General Eric Holder with contempt for refusin...

Jennifer Bendery

House Takes Serious Action On Holder

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 06.29.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans voted Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, an issue that has become so politicized t...