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December 22, 2011

Ariz. DOJ Attack on Arpaio an Attempt to Distract from 'Fast and Furious'

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AZ sheriff: DOJ attack on Arpaio an attempt to distract from Fast and Furious
By Matthew Boyle - The Daily Caller   8:03 AM 12/22/2011


Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Ariz., said that Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent attacks on his colleague, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., were an attempt to take public attention off of Operation Fast and Furious.

“The fact [that the Department of Justice] chose today to release their findings was only done to take the attention away from themselves,” Babeu said in a press release, according to Sonoran News. “Today marks the one year anniversary since the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.”

Holder’s DOJ announced on December 15 that it “had reasonable cause to believe” Arpaio’s office was discriminating against Latinos.
 

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