Under fire for losing track of weapons that turned up at crime scenes along the Southwest border, the Justice Department has taken the extraordinary step of formally withdrawing an inaccurate letter about the episode that it sent to Congress earlier this year.
Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole sent nearly 1,400 pages of emails and other documents to Capitol Hill late Friday afternoon that lay bare the raw and sometimes cringe-worthy process by which the letter was drafted. The materials contain clues into how misleading information about the botched gun trafficking operation made it into a Feb. 4, 2011 letter to Congress that department leaders have since acknowledged was false.
Misleading Congress can be a prosecutable offense if a person who makes the statements knows they are false.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Caught with their hands in the cookie jar: Justice Withdraws Inaccurate Gunwalker Letter It Sent To Congress
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"Misleading Congress can be a prosecutable offense if a person who makes the statements knows they are false"
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Of course the probability of actual prosecution is pretty slim... No one with the balls to do it.