sheriff dever was a western lawman and hero. megyn: the inspector general appears to blame the atf and the don t of justice for this operation. eric holder declares victory. that s next.
that there was total disregard for public safety and contrary to the denials of the attorney general and his defenders in congress that it was approved by senior justice officials that there were no red flags. megyn: thank you, william. this again we are going through the report. literally i m look on my blackberry at this moment. that is significant. it s the head of the department of justice is being referred for possible disciplinary action. that s significant because the department of justice is thought to downplay lanny breuer s connection to operation fast & furious. yet his name comes up repeatedly in this report. i haven t read the report. i m going by what i hear in my ear. eric holder is said to not have
that arizona law. an was outspoken against the government for failing to secure the border and for losing track of weapons in the operation fast & furious scandal. here is cool eeg sheriff paul babeau. he s not just a long-time sheriff of cochise county with he s a friend and a leader among sheriffs. it s a loss not just for cochise county, arizona and our whole country, because he was a patriot and national leader on border security issues. reporter: it was sheriff dever s office that investigated the shooting of a rancher shot on his own property by allegedly an illegal immigrant. we have just gone the a response from arizona governor jan brewer who says in the truest sense
attorney general eric holder that he was not informed of operation fast & furious. that he knew about the tactics involved. that he did not know about gun walking prior to the public finding it out and the chief of staff who is now his chief of staff as well as the acting deputy attorney general, despite receiving a detailed briefing on operation fast & furious. despite the number of guns going down to mexico. the term gun walking was never used and therefore he could not be blamed for know being this stuff beforehand. now, so we have seen jason weinstein being disciplined. we are led to believe in the next 48 hours there may be actions taken against those atf officials in phoenix who had primary responsibility about this. number two. we believe there are several points that i think are
vanished. two of them were found where border patrol agent brian terry was shot and killed. the inspector general of the doj who has been investigating this for over a year has come out with a report and a top justice department official has resigned. william lajeunesse live from our los angeles bureau. he has been at the forefront from the beginning on this. what do we know? reporter: the attorney general said he would only fire or discipline people after the report has been released. jason weinstein is out. let s go to this full screen of what we believe the report is saying. it does place primary blame on the field safety and the i.s. attorney s office in arizona for bad strategy. but it appears to exonerate