At least one thing is constant in Washington and at DOJ these days: When you hope that people are not watching, you release subpoenaed documents on Friday evening. This week is no exception, and the dump occurs just before Attorney General Eric Holder is to appear on February 2 before the House Oversight Committee to answer (or more likely evade) more questions about F&F.
Included in the 486 pages of documents are emails from Dennis Burke, the US Attorney for Arizona in charge of F&F, to Manni Wilkerson, Eric Holder's Deputy Chief of Staff, sent the day after the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Burke says that some of the guns found at the Brian Terry murder scene were F&F guns. Wilkerson answers that he would like to get followup details. Both Wilkerson and Burke now state that they have no recollection of this email exchange. Curiously, no other emails are included that indicate there was a followup in the inquiry. So, once again, either the DOJ is rife with absolute incompetence, or they realized they better not talk about it in emails.
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