Subpoena Ashcroft and Gonzales For First Guns-To-Mexican-Cartels Fiasco If Call Holder, Ex-Staff Bob Weiner Tells Govt Reform Chair Issa; Ex-AG’s Had First Failed Mexican Gun-Walking 2006-2007

WEINER ON "FOX AND FRIENDS" CALLS FOR "RISE OVER POLITICS" INSTEAD OF ISSA'S SUBPOENA OF HOLDER FOR "FAST AND FURIOUS"

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The former spokesman for the House Government Reform Committee, Bob Weiner, has called on current Committee Chairman Darryl Issa (R-CA) to subpoena ex-Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales for the first guns-to-Mexican cartels fiasco if he is calling current Attorney General Eric Holder.  Robert Weiner, who was the committee’s spokesman under Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) for five years before becoming spokesman for the White House Drug Policy Office, called for a “rise over politics” since it was right after Ashcroft and directly under Gonzales’ tenure that the first failed Mexican gun-walking operation occurred in 2006-2007, “Operation Wide Receiver,” out of the same Phoenix division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms that the later operation, “Fast and Furious,” took place.

Weiner appeared on Fox News Television’s “Fox and Friends” this morning. He also said, “If you are the Attorney General of the United States, you have to do something about the violence, drugs, and human smuggling coming up from Mexico from at least 4 Mexican cartels now in 300 U.S. cities. Mexico is the #1 U.S. drug supplier.”

“Would those who criticize Holder support the independent report and statements by respected retired generals in a recent military assessment of border crime coming North that says that denial is not a policy, the violence on our side is real, with ranchers and farmers blackmailed, families murdered, and the drugs flowing throughout America?  Will Congress support on a bipartisan basis the report’s authors in their call for at least doubling U.S. border personnel from 18,000 to 45,000, increasing the actual fencing which stops drugs and crime by 95% where it’s installed, as San Diego numbers show, and also increasing support to Mexican law enforcement?  Those are concrete steps that will accomplish something positive.”

Weiner conceded, “Giving guns to Mexican criminals was a stupid plan by ATF -- the batteries didn’t even work so what are you tracking?  Holder said he didn’t know they did it until May, asked DOJ Inspector General to investigate, and fired the ATF people involved.”

Weiner added in a statement after the show, “Cong. Mike McCaul (R-TX) will next week be holding a Homeland Security Operations Subcommittee hearing on the report and the Mexican crime coming to us over the border. And Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) will be conducting a Sen. Judiciary oversight hearing with Holder.  We expect those hearings to both be responsible, not political, and to develop solutions to the real border-crime movement Northward that we need to solve.”

Source: Robert Weiner Associates www.weinerpublic.com

CONTACT: Bob Weiner, Richard Mann 301-283-0821/202-306-1200

SOURCE Robert Weiner Associates

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