Fast and Furious Is No Longer "a Third-Rate Burglary"

Daily Caller is reporting further on the conflicting statements of Eric Holder and David Axelrod regarding White House consultations over Fast and Furious.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/21/either-holder-or-axelrod-lying-about-political-meetings-forbes-says-mr-axelrod-is-not-under-oath-on-news-shows/

Do you think this had anything to do with that reported near-brawl that Axelrod and Holder got into only to be separated by Valerie Jarrett?

On another front, here is why Holder and president Obama have made a strategic error by going the contempt and executive privilege route. Up until now, the mainstream media has largely ignored Fast and Furious. In the past 48 hours, they have been forced to report on it. Even MSNBC and their Butter and Egg man, Ed "Boom-Boom" Schultz have been forced to talk about it. Indeed, Fat Eddie seems to be in crisis mode, with his permanent label, "Witch Hunt" pasted on the screen. Today, an LA Times flak named David Horsey has written an op-ed defending Holder and Obama by floating the canard that it was all because the ATF office in Phoenix sent false information back to Washington. To Horsey, this is all about pleasing the "gun nuts".

Spin it as they will, it appears that the media cannot ignore this any longer. That means the public is going to become increasingly aware of Fast and Furious and the name Brian Terry, which White House spokeshole Jay Carney seemed to have forgotten.







"...the family that you referred to."


"that is why we have provided Congress every document..."

(We?)

Carney also misspeaks  when he says that the Holder Justice Department ended the (Wide Receiver) operation which was carried out in the Bush administration. It was the DOJ under Bush that ended Wide Receiver when they discovered that despite their best efforts to maintain surveillance, about 300 weapons eluded surveillance and made it across the border. At least now Carney is going to have to answer questions about Fast and Furious from the White House press corps.

It may be too soon to say this, but it appears that the contempt vote and Obama's disingenuous effort to claim executive privilege may have just opened the floodgates. If so, we may hear more caustic references to Fast and Furious and that previous "third-rate burglary" known as Watergate. In reality, such comparisons end when you consider that nobody died in Watergate.