CHAFFETZ: Jason Weinstein sent an e-mail to James Trusty: "Do you think we should try to have Lanny participate in a press when Fast and Furious and Laura's Tucson case are unsealed? It's a tricky case, given the number of guns that have walked, but it is a significant set of prosecutions." James Trusty sends back to Jason Weinstein, "It's not going to be any big surprise that a bunch of U.S. guns are being used in Mexico. Now, you claim with passion that nobody at the senior levels of the Department of Justice prior to the death of Brian Terry knew that guns were walking, and I've got an e-mail from Jason Weinstein using the term "guns walking."
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All experienced agents who looked at this thought that it was insane because, A, there wouldn't be crime scenes unless we walk the guns across the border, and used in crimes. So we created the crimes by making the guns available, therefore we're contributing to violent criminality. And even if you trace the guns to the crime scenes that you create, you wouldn't cinch the case against these particular cartels because you wouldn't know for sure enough information to nail 'em. This was a disaster, and now that people are trying to get to the bottom of it the stonewall is taking place. And this was just part of it that you heard, the sound bites from yesterday between Holder and Chaffetz and Darrell Issa.