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WASHINGTON — The head of the Justice Department’s criminal division said Monday he regrets not alerting the agency’s leadership to problems in a gun-smuggling probe under the Bush administration.
Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer said he knew in April 2010 that investigators in the 2006 Bush- era probe had allowed hundreds of guns to be transferred to suspected arms traffickers — the same tactic that Republicans are criticizing the Obama administration for using in Operation Fast and Furious. Breuer said he made a mistake in not telling Attorney General Eric Holder and Deputy Attorney General James Cole about the earlier probe.
