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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1001775" data-attributes="member: 12952">Exclusive: Five ATF officials found responsible for Fast and FuriousWASHINGTON – Republican congressional investigators&nbsp; have concluded that five senior ATF officials — from the special&nbsp; agent-in-charge of the Phoenix field office to the top man in the&nbsp; bureau’s Washington headquarters — are collectively responsible for the&nbsp; failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation that was “marred by&nbsp; missteps, poor judgments and inherently reckless strategy.”The investigators, in a final report likely to be released later this&nbsp; week, also unearthed new evidence that agents from the Bureau of&nbsp; Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix initially sought to&nbsp; hide from the Mexican government the crucial information that two Fast&nbsp; and Furious firearms were recovered after the brother of a Mexican state&nbsp; attorney general was killed there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1001775, member: 12952"] [B]Exclusive: Five ATF officials found responsible for Fast and Furious WASHINGTON –[/B] Republican congressional investigators have concluded that five senior ATF officials — from the special agent-in-charge of the Phoenix field office to the top man in the bureau’s Washington headquarters — are collectively responsible for the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation that was “marred by missteps, poor judgments and inherently reckless strategy.” The investigators, in a final report likely to be released later this week, also unearthed new evidence that agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix initially sought to hide from the Mexican government the crucial information that two Fast and Furious firearms were recovered after the brother of a Mexican state attorney general was killed there. [/QUOTE]

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