Human Events notes a heated exchange in yesterday’s House Oversight Committee hearings into Operation Fast & Furious, between Special Agent in Charge William Newell and Rep. Patrick Meehan (R., Penn.). After initial evasions from Newell, Congressman Meehan gets him onto the ropes, eventually forcing him to admit that the ATF and FBI were not the only federal bodies involved, but that the IRS, DEA, and ICE played roles also. “Who’s left to implicate?” asks John Hayward:

Ah, yes: the White House. Newell also testified that he discussed Operation Fast & Furious with his old friend, White House National Security Director for North America Kevin O’Reilly. According to CBS News, Issa’s committee got its hands on an email that began with the ominous words, “you didn’t get this from me.”
Newell says O’Reilly was “asking about the impact of Project Gunrunner to brief people in preparation for a trip to Mexico … what we were doing to combat firearms trafficking and other issues.” A White House spokesman denied this exchange had anything to do with Operation Fast and Furious.

The claim that the information was shared with the White House was substantiated by ATF Special Agent Carlos Canino in his testimony.

Videos of both men’s testimony and the rest of the article are here.