mr. horowitz, thank you. as my previous colleague says, i grew to when he came to talk to me, and thank you very much for instilling some trust. inner discovery with witnesses, paperwork, did anyone within the doj system raise questions about the truthfulness and possible misleading testimony that is being presented by at their interviews. >> did you directly ask the question? >> i would have to go back and look at the transcripts. cracks in detailing with lanny brewer, it is my understanding -- mr. brewer said members of the criminal division to review the auspices and directives of information wide receiver. >> correct. >> i am a dentist, but this is even worse than what operation wide receiver would have been do you know the outcome here, and you are still permitting it to go. >> i believe it is april of 2010 that the meeting occurs where mr. brewer is informed that there is going to be meeting and his deputy goes to that meeting to discuss the unlocking and wide receiver. that is with mr. hoover, the depu

mr. horowitz. on behalf of the canadian oversight and government reform i want to congratulate him on in fact delivering an extremely comprehensive, strong and independent report. mr. horowitz is not new to the department that he is new to this job and inspector general, the senate confirms nomination on march 29 and when you were sworn in on august 16, we all asked the question, can you pick up and do this kind of the job on such a monumental task that is our ready language language for period of time? yesterday you prove to both sides of the aisle that you could and i want to personally thank you. i note that in fact igs serve a purpose that in fact we do not get and have not gotten from any administration, if not for the 74 igs and the 12,000 men and women that work for them. the level of transparency, and accountability over waste, fraud and abuse of power and abuse of discretion and the like would not be possible. this committee, more than any other in the congress, relies on their work and ye

mr. horowitz, what did mr. brewer do when he learned that god walking occurred in operation wide receiver? >> well, we were told by mr. brewer and mr. weinstein and perhaps others that we interviewed was that they would be meeting with the atf and at that meeting that atf would be told that god walking tactics are unacceptable. we found that there was no admonishing at the meeting, but we found there was no fact of that conduct. >> what additional steps, if there were any, do you think mr. brewer should have taken when he learned that god walking occurred in operation wide receiver? >> as indicated, one of the things we sought out to do here with address the facts that we found and not go beyond those. in this case we found in 2010 he did not have direct authority over ats. it was the attorney general who had authority. those tactics are unacceptable in a should have told that to people, all one or the other or both the people that could have taken action to stop or to correct what was happening. >> mr. brewer

mr. horowitz, thank you. as my previous colleague says, i grew to when he came to talk to me, and thank you very much for instilling some trust. inner discovery with witnesses, paperwork, did anyone within the doj system raise questions about the truthfulness and possible misleading testimony that is being presented by at their interviews. >> did you directly ask the question? >> i would have to go back and look at the transcripts. cracks in detailing with lanny brewer, it is my understanding -- mr. brewer said members of the criminal division to review the auspices and directives of information wide receiver. >> correct. >> i am a dentist, but this is even worse than what operation wide receiver would have been do you know the outcome here, and you are still permitting it to go. >> i believe it is april of 2010 that the meeting occurs where mr. brewer is informed that there is going to be meeting and his deputy goes to that meeting to discuss the unlocking and wide receiver. that is with mr. hoover, the depu

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mr. horowitz came to my office and assured me he would be that independent person. will find out if he kept his word when i read the report. we will find out who at the highest level approved fast and furious gun walking that led to the murder of brian terry, the border patrol agent and didn't do anything to rest drug kingpins in mexico and get the person fired. a stupid program where the government down and arizona says that we want you to violate the laws and we will fall these guns across the border -- and we will follow these guns across the border. two of these guns were found at the murder of brian terry. this has been going on for three years. we are being stonewalled. we don't only passed laws. we're supposed to be a check on the executive branch to make sure that the laws are faithfully executed. our gun laws are not being faithfully promoted. we have been stonewalled on getting this information from the justice department. i hope the inspector general gets this out in his report. host: he testified back in june. some of your colleagues called for him to re