Michael Grimm calls for Eric Holder’s resignation
4:07 pm • 31 October 2011
From a press release sent out today:
Rep. Michael G. Grimm (R,C-NY) issued the following statement in response to Operation Fast & Furious – an ATF-led gun-trafficking surveillance operation that brought roughly 1,500 guns into Mexico and led to the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent:
“As a former federal law enforcement agent, I take the rule of law very seriously, especially when it concerns the death of a federal agent. The mishandling of Operation Fast and Furious has not only put weapons - trafficked in from the U.S. - into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, but has cost a Border Patrol Agent his life. I find it unbelievable that Attorney General Eric Holder was unaware of the details of the operation, and even more incomprehensible that the straw purchases continued on his watch without notifying our counterparts in U.S. embassy in Mexico of the details.
“Attorney General Holder has a repeated pattern of misleading members of Congress under oath, and Fast and Furious appears to be no exception. In this case, his claims don’t add up. As a consequence, I believe he has lost all credibility with Congress and the American people, which is why I am calling for his resignation.”
