Fast and Furious is getting faster and more furious

White House Scandal Update:  Fast and Furious



Late Friday, the White House turned over new documents in the Congressional investigation into the ATF "Fast and Furious" gunwalking scandal.

The DOCUMENTS SHOW EXTENSIVE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THEN-ATF SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE OF THE PHOENIX OFFICE BILL NEWELL - WHO LED FAST AND FURIOUS - AND THEN-WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY STAFFER KEVIN O'REILLY. Emails indicate the two also spoke on the phone. Such detailed, direct communications between a local ATF manager in Phoenix and a White House national security staffer has raised interest among Congressional investigators looking into Fast and Furious. Newell has said he and O'Reilly are long time friends.

ATF agents say that in Fast and Furious, their agency allowed thousands of assault rifles and other weapons to be sold to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels. At least two of the guns turned up at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last December.

The email exchanges span a little over a month last summer. They discuss ATF's gun trafficking efforts along the border including the controversial Fast and Furious case, though not by name. The emails to and from O'Reilly indicate more than just a passing interest in the Phoenix office's gun trafficking cases. They do not mention specific tactics such as "letting guns walk."

A lawyer for the White House wrote Congressional investigators: "none of the communications between ATF and the White House revealed the investigative law enforcement tactics at issue in your inquiry, let alone any decision to allow guns to 'walk.'"

AMONG THE DOCUMENTS PRODUCED: AN EMAIL IN WHICH ATF'S NEWELL SENT THE WHITE HOUSE'S O'REILLY AN "ARROW CHART REFLECTING THE ULTIMATE DESTINATION OF FIREARMS WE INTERCEPTED AND/OR WHERE THE GUNS ENDED UP." The chart shows arrows leading from Arizona to destinations all over Mexico

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This scandal is becoming more and more serious.  People died as a result of the actions of people in the government.  It appears we probably need a special prosecutor.