Statement by Governor Jan Brewer (Arizona - Regarding Operation Fast and Furious)

[shadowrider]

“I am outraged by findings in a new Congressional report that alleges federal agents were instructed to stand aside and do nothing as up to 2,000 weapons were illegally purchased in Arizona and resold. In many cases, the end result appears to have been the arming of violent drug cartels south of the border.

“During Operation Fast and Furious in 2010, according to this report, agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms were ordered to simply track these „straw buyer‟ weapons sales but not intervene. Longtime federal agents have now testified before Congress that allowing these weapons to leave the premises, a practice generally known as „gun walking,‟ was a marked departure from accepted law enforcement practices.

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http://www.azgovernor.gov/dms/upload/PR_061511_FastAndFurious.pdf

[gejohnston]

1. She actually said something that makes sense n/t

[rl6214]

2. She's a nutjob, but right on, on this one.

[mvccd1000]

3. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day...

... I wonder when her other chance will be? :)

[krispos42]

4. I think she's more like a stopped calender

right once every 14 years...

[Upton]

5. Stopped clock, blind squirrel..

however Brewer got to this point doesn't really matter... she's correct..

This whole gunwalking thing is outrageous...as is the media's hesitancy to cover it. The DOJ and ATF need to be held accountable.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. +1 Bravo!

The very essence of the Constitution is the principle of checks and balances making the branches of government accountable to each other.
When this accountability fails, the people are there to hold the government accountable.

Make no mistake, the buck does not stop at the oval office door. The buck stops at everyone's door.

Government without accountability is just tyranny. Anyone working for that accountability is a patriot and ally of freedom. Putting the good of the party ahead of freedom is an idea that I thought died on Christmas 1991.

Anyone who can't put aside partisan issues and work for freedom is decidedly unAmerican.