FOXNews.com: New GOP platform condemns Fast & Furious, blame agent's death on operation

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New GOP platform condemns Fast & Furious, blame agent's death on operation Aug 30th 2012, 20:00 The Republican platform ratified this week by party members at their national conventions "condemns" the Justice Department's Operation Fast and Furious, saying "reckless actions" associated with the failed gun-tracking program resulted in the murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and others. The 62-page document does not mention Terry by name. However, Terry was the only border agent killed in connection with the operation. Guns sent across the U.S-Mexico border by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and into the black market were found close the where Terry was killed Dec. 14, 2010  in a shootout near the Arizona border. "We condemn the reckless actions associated with the operation known as Fast and Furious," states the document, which also commends House Republicans for holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his refusal to cooperate with their investigation. Federal official hoped the thousands of weapons could eventually lead them to Mexican drug cartel leaders. The platform was approved Tuesday at the party convention in Tampa, Fla., and takes a clear conservative stance on major issues like Medicare and illegal immigration and on such emerging ones like drone surveillance. Beyond calling for smaller government, lower taxes and the right to gun ownership, the 2010 We Believe in American document supports pending legislation to "prevent unwarranted or unreasonable governmental intrusion through the use of aerial surveillance" and calls upon the United States to honor its relationship with American Indians.

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