The following is a comment from Beth Levine, spokesperson for Ranking Member Grassley, on the Justice Department’s latest release of documents related to Senator Grassley and Congressman Issa’s investigation into Operation Fast and Furious.
“After a first glance at today’s document dump from the Justice Department, there appears to be even more questions for Assistant Attorney General Breuer, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Weinstein and former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke. The congressional investigators will continue to scour the documents over the upcoming days and will have further questions for department officials.
“In addition, the disparaging emails from Mr. Burke about Senator Grassley and his staff are disappointing from somebody who should have known much more about the gunwalking. Fortunately, it appears that Mr. Burke now realizes that the Senator and his staff have the best of intentions and work very hard to understand the facts of any investigation, including this one that involved a disastrous program where our own government illegally allowed guns to be walked and led to the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. After learning yesterday from the Justice Department that the emails would be released, Mr. Burke personally apologized to Senator Grassley’s staff for the tone and the content of the emails.”
Here's a link to the cover letter from Deputy Attorney General James Cole.