Congressman Darrell Issa's response to Eric Holder's unbelievable letter of last week shines more light on why Holder's story doesn't hold water.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/10/issa-responds-to-holder-letter-with-matching-gusto/
"In his letter Friday, Holder said his remarks on "Fast and Furious" have been "truthful and accurate," adding, "I have no recollection of knowing about 'Fast and Furious' or of hearing its name prior to the public controversy about it. ... Prior to early 2011, I certainly never knew about the tactics employed in the operation."
Fascinating given the fact that Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed on December 14, 2010 by guns purchased under Fast and Furious. Also keep in mind that ICE agents Jaime Zapata and Victor Avila were shot in Mexico on February 15, 2011 by similar F and F-linked weapons. Zapata died of his wounds. Do you think somebody might have said something to Holder somewhere along the way?
A "few weeks previous"? (referring to Holder's May 3 testimony that he learned of F and F " a few weeks previous".) Perhaps one can quibble over February 15, but December 14?
Below is Issa's letter:
http://www.foxnews.com/interactive/politics/2011/10/10/issa-responds-to-holder-letter-to-house-oversight-panel/
Even more incredible is the fact that at least two high-ranking assistants of Holder, Lanny Breuer and Gary Grindler, had been briefed about F and F back in March 2010. And they never told Holder?
If the statements about Fast and Furious as given by Holder are true, then the Justice Department was being run as some sort of Alice in Wonderland. That is the best possible scenario. I am not buying it. That's because I live in the real world. I also worked for the Justice Department for over two decades. This is not how things are supposed to work in federal law enforcement.
Eric Holder is lying through his teeth.
February 15, 2011 is early in the year, last time I looked at a calendar. Maybe you are looking at a different system for keeping track of dates. December 2010 is close enough to the end of the previous year that a report on what was going on might well not have made it to the attorney general's desk until early 2011.
ReplyDeleteThis appears, among other things, to be a clear case of bureaucracy grown so large that at all kinds of levels, what all kinds of different civil servants thought, or didn't think, mattered more than any clear designation of policy at the top.
Probably bits and pieces of information about the campaign, with or without a formal name, did appear in various reports skimmed by the attorney general. But it is dubious that anything went across his desk which clearly said:
FAST AND FURIOUS
We are letting two thousand guns cross the border to the drug cartels and then dropping surveillance. Is that OK with you Mr. Holder?
What's being lost in this kicking up of dust by people more interested in scoring points than in protecting the USA is that tens of thousands of guns have crossed the border in the past several years, giving the cartels fire power to rival the Mexican government. Does Mr. Issa care about that?