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mr. breuer. mix what mrs. daniel glaser, assistant secretary for terrorist financing at the department of treasury office of financial intelligence. he also served as treasury deputy assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crime. in addition to his prior role of the treasury department he served as an attorney for the united states secret service and as the head of the u.s. delegation to the financial action task force and intergovernmental agency charged with formulating policies to combat international money laundering and terrorism financing. he's a coach would of the university of michigan and a columbia university school of law and we welcome him here. mr. glaser to read >> chairman and the distinguished members of the committee come think you for the opportunity to appear before you today. to discuss the treasury department's contribution to the obama@strachan strategy to combat the transnational organized crime. in my testimony today i will focus on the treasury department efforts to i
mr. breuer. mix what mrs. daniel glaser, assistant secretary for terrorist financing at the department of treasury office of financial intelligence. he also served as treasury deputy assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crime. in addition to his prior role of the treasury department he served as an attorney for the united states secret service and as the head of the u.s. delegation to the financial action task force and intergovernmental agency charged with formulating...
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mr. breuer's deputy, jason, was also aware that atf brought guns -- bought guns. he briefed judiciary committee staff on february the 10th in response to my letters. did mr. weinstein review a draft of the february 4th letter before it was sent to me? >> i don't know. >> who will be held accountable for allowing a letter to congress with a statement that many people in the justice department knew was false? >> well, again, i have to dispute with due respect the assertion that people in the justice department knew the false. people in the justice department who were responsible for the creation of that letter, again, relied on information provided to them that they thought was accurate. we only know that the information was ip accurate in hindsight. at the time the letter was prepared, the -- our best thought was that information supplied was, in fact, correct. >> someone in the justice department leaked a document to the press along with talking points in an attempt to smear one of the atm whistleblower who testified before the house. this document was supposed to
mr. breuer's deputy, jason, was also aware that atf brought guns -- bought guns. he briefed judiciary committee staff on february the 10th in response to my letters. did mr. weinstein review a draft of the february 4th letter before it was sent to me? >> i don't know. >> who will be held accountable for allowing a letter to congress with a statement that many people in the justice department knew was false? >> well, again, i have to dispute with due respect the assertion that...
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mr. breuer's leadership, headquarters revived it despite the gun walking issues. it was mr. breuer's responsibility to clearly communicate that gun walking was unacceptable, and to institute oversight safeguards to ensure it did not happen again. he did not do that. mr. breuer admitted before this committee last week that one of his deputies informed him of gun walking in wide receiver, april 2010. he also admitted that the same deputy approved at least one of the wiretap applications in operation fast and furious. in order to justify tapping the phone of a private citizen, the law requires agencies to show they have tried everything else first, but the very same facts that would show the need to obtain the wiretap would also showed that the department knew these individuals were trafficking in weapons. the government should have stopped the flow of guns to these criminals. anyone reviewing the wiretap affidavits would probably know that was not happening. i would also add that this tragedy should not be used to call for new gun control. the straw buyers in passengers were al
mr. breuer's leadership, headquarters revived it despite the gun walking issues. it was mr. breuer's responsibility to clearly communicate that gun walking was unacceptable, and to institute oversight safeguards to ensure it did not happen again. he did not do that. mr. breuer admitted before this committee last week that one of his deputies informed him of gun walking in wide receiver, april 2010. he also admitted that the same deputy approved at least one of the wiretap applications in...
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mr. breuer coming yesterday he made a statement saying dcf and u.s. attorney's office officials quote, unquote repeatedly assured officials in the criminal division and the leadership of the department of justice the allegations about walking guns and fast and furious or not true. please be more specific. who exactly dts had begun walking allegations were through? not exactly at the u.s. attorneys office said the allegations were untrue? >> senator grassley, as i said yesterday, of course it was my office that ultimately prosecuted the wide receiver case i want to be very clear to you, senator, that when i burned a mess of april 2010 and i learned about it and we decided to prosecute this case from 2006
mr. breuer coming yesterday he made a statement saying dcf and u.s. attorney's office officials quote, unquote repeatedly assured officials in the criminal division and the leadership of the department of justice the allegations about walking guns and fast and furious or not true. please be more specific. who exactly dts had begun walking allegations were through? not exactly at the u.s. attorneys office said the allegations were untrue? >> senator grassley, as i said yesterday, of course...
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mr. lanny breuer came in november 1, 2011, and said the letter sent to senator grassley and response to his inquiry, that that letter was false. how do you account for the fact that the department for the period of time from february 2011 until november of 2011 had misled congress about the correct -- the accuracy of that allegation? >> i think there is some validity in the concern you raised. as indicated before. >> i do, too. and i hope so. >> it is your question. so i assume that you do. february 4, the information contained in that letter was thought to be accurate. it was not until sometime after that that we had a sense that the information was not in fact accurate. it was not as if the date upon which we knew the information was inaccurate was on february 4. it comes up sometime after that. i received things as late as march of 2011 from people at atf who assured me that gun walking did not occur. >> but your department -- you said you learned about fast and furious, made third -- he said -- on may 3, you said probably over the last few weeks. today you say over the last couple of mo
mr. lanny breuer came in november 1, 2011, and said the letter sent to senator grassley and response to his inquiry, that that letter was false. how do you account for the fact that the department for the period of time from february 2011 until november of 2011 had misled congress about the correct -- the accuracy of that allegation? >> i think there is some validity in the concern you raised. as indicated before. >> i do, too. and i hope so. >> it is your question. so i...
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mr. lanny breuer came in november 1, 2011, and said the letter sent to senator grassley and response to his inquiry, that that letter was false. how do you account for the fact that the department for the period of time from february 2011 until november of 2011 had misled congress about the correct -- the accuracy of that allegation? >> i think there is some validity in the concern you raised. as indicated before. >> i do, too. and i hope so. it is your question. february 4, the information contained in that letter was thought to be accurate. it was not until sometime after that that we had a sense that the information was not in fact accurate. it was not as if the date upon which we knew the information was inaccurate was on february 4. it comes up sometime after that. i received things as late as march of 2011 from people at atf who assured me that gun walking did not occur. >> but your department -- you said you learned about fast and furious, made third -- he said probably over the last few weeks. today you say over the last couple of months. >> i think it could be expressed over last c
mr. lanny breuer came in november 1, 2011, and said the letter sent to senator grassley and response to his inquiry, that that letter was false. how do you account for the fact that the department for the period of time from february 2011 until november of 2011 had misled congress about the correct -- the accuracy of that allegation? >> i think there is some validity in the concern you raised. as indicated before. >> i do, too. and i hope so. it is your question. february 4, the...