attorney for arizona, dennis burke. and he worked for janet napolitano when she was the attorney general of arizona as her staffer, was her chief of staff when she was the governor of arizona, served as her senior homeland security adviser when she went into the obama administration, and president obama strategically placed him back in arizona. why do i say strategically? it's a pro-second amendment state, it's a border state, it's easy to plame the state -- to blame violence in mexico on the state. well, dennis burke just so happens to have drafted up the clinton era assault weapons ban with rahm emanuel, of course, served as president obama's chief of staff. eric holder, who's changed his testimony multiple times, says he knew nothing about this program, right? the very same time dennis burke has this longstanding professional relationship with janet napolitano, and while he is serving as attorney in arizona, he's sitting on eric holder's attorney general's advisory board giving him direct advice on border policy on t

attorney at the time for the district of arizona, dennis burke, knew that the weapons found at the murderr was who bought those weapons, and now they saw that they were found at the murder scene and carried by the men that killed brian terry. it's very distressing that top officials in the department of justice did not provide that information to the attorney general. something was broken, something remains broken, and we have to wait to see if this thing gets fixed. >> robert heyer, cousin to brian terry, it seems not completely satisfied with this inspector general report, but thanks for joining us this morning. >> those wounds are hard to heal. thank you, john. >>> it was a case of terrorism. brand-new details this morning on the attack in benghazi that killed four americans, including chris stevens. the nation's counterterrorism chiefs tells congress that extremists saw an opportunity to talk during the protest over an anti-muslim film and they took it. the u.s. now searching for links to al qaeda. >> i would say, yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embass

these items concerning and regarding atf gunrunner are between dennis burke and the number of people, including lanny brewer. also, the doj and house oversight and reform, 04009, dated 2011. in which lanny brewer placed into his personal e-mail the address being redacted for forward, revised grassley letter, grassley atf documents. in which there are a number of comments we alluded to. >> without objection, so ordered. with that, we recognize the gentle lady from florida, ms. adams we met thank you, mr. chairman. i want to think you for letting me join the committee. mr. horwitz, i have sat here. as you know, come from a law-enforcement background and i sit here and i listen and i am very concerned that we had an operation that appeared to have no true oversight from anyone at an upper level. when an exit strategy is requested in march of 2010, and nothing happens, i have a few questions as to what happened to this agency? >> i think i need to go back to maybe even before. because as i've worked with this agency, years ago, in law enforcement, they had these oversight protections. you

these items regard atf gunrunning between dennis burke and a number of people, including lanny brewer. 004449, dated 2, 2, 2011, in which he placed into his personal e-mail the address being redacted, the revised grassley letter. in which there are a number of comments we have already alluded to. with that, we recognize the gentle lady from florida, ms. adams. >> thank you for allowing me to join the committee. mr. horowitz, i have sat here, and as you know, i come from a law enforcement background. i am very concerned about that we had an operation that appeared to have had no true oversight from anybody on an upper level. when an exit strategy was suggested in march 2010, nothing happened, i have a few questions as to what happened to this agency. i think any to go back to maybe even before, because, as i worked with this agency years ago in law enforcement, they had these oversight protections. you could not get a wiretap without going and getting someone from above to review it and approve it and have it taken to a judge to be signed. do you happen to know when they decided to do