"I don't know."
Attorney General Eric Holder, while testifying today before Darrell Issa's (R-CA) House Oversight Committee, admitted that he has consulted from the White House concerning how to respond to criticism over the Fast and Furious scandal. Daily Caller has this bit of information below:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/07/holder-admits-axelrod-white-house-helped-justice-dept-craft-fast-and-furious-public-relations-strategy/
Hardly surprising. At least here Holder tells the truth. Either he knows that Issa knows that fact or he (Holder) is smart enough not to lie about something can be refuted-probably by many people.
Here's more from Hot Air on how Holder tried to put the blame on you-know-who (GW Bush).
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/07/issa-to-holder-on-ff-you-are-not-a-good-witness/
“Fast and Furious was a mid-level, regional investigation,” Holder said. “Mr. Weinstein and Mr. Breuer did not know about the tactics being used in Fast and Furious until the beginning of last year.”
When asked about whether his senior officials in the Justice Department had simply read the wiretap applications, Holder responded by saying his top officials did not read the affidavits and the details of what was in the Fast and Furious wiretaps while trying to talk his way around the questions asked."
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Holder's statement in the first paragraph above is a lie given all the information that has come out in the past year. As for the second paragraph, if the wiretap applications were, in fact, signed off on by Lanny Breuer, Holder's second-in-command, then what Holder is saying is that Breuer et al signed off on documents they never read. It is highly dubious given the unusual nature of the operation, which, as I have stated many times, could not have been concocted by street agents or even field supervisors. So what is Holder saying? Did low level subordinates sign FOR Breuer? Maybe they used one of those facsimile pens with his name on it. They do exist in government. That requires delving into.
PJ Media also has more:
http://pjmedia.com/blog/getting-furious-with-holder-republicans-unload-get-few-answers-at-hearing/
It still comes down to this: Fast and Furious was an invention of the DOJ and probably the White House, which expanded on a previous Bush-era operation called Wide Receiver, which was vastly different. Unlike Wide Receiver, in Fast and Furious, there was no effort to interdict the guns or arrest anybody. No tracking devices were put on the guns and the Mexican police were not involved. The object was to develop information that would corroborate the administration's claim that 90% of the guns used by cartels in Mexico came from the US-thus, tighter gun laws were needed.
Eric Holder continues to lie about his role in Fast and Furious. The attorney general continues to perjure himself before Congress.
Finally, I would bet the mortgage that those tens of thousands of documents which are hidden somewhere in the DOJ and are not being released will prove beyond any doubt that what I say above is true.
PJ Media also has more:
http://pjmedia.com/blog/getting-furious-with-holder-republicans-unload-get-few-answers-at-hearing/
It still comes down to this: Fast and Furious was an invention of the DOJ and probably the White House, which expanded on a previous Bush-era operation called Wide Receiver, which was vastly different. Unlike Wide Receiver, in Fast and Furious, there was no effort to interdict the guns or arrest anybody. No tracking devices were put on the guns and the Mexican police were not involved. The object was to develop information that would corroborate the administration's claim that 90% of the guns used by cartels in Mexico came from the US-thus, tighter gun laws were needed.
Eric Holder continues to lie about his role in Fast and Furious. The attorney general continues to perjure himself before Congress.
Finally, I would bet the mortgage that those tens of thousands of documents which are hidden somewhere in the DOJ and are not being released will prove beyond any doubt that what I say above is true.
4 comments:
There is no innocent explanation for withholding documents that harm your case.
It should be more than a negative assumption as they are hidden, it should be the reason for a Judge to assume the worst and convict him.
The Squid senses blood in the DOJ waters. The sharks will soon be arriving. Obama, as his past behavior patterns reveal, will watch the feeding frenzy safely from the deck of the boat, along with the other White House administrators. RIP Eric.
Squid
Interesting, at least as I caught it, how the number of documents being withheld by Holder has recently apparently essentially doubled. Further, and I guess this is old stuff, some which have been furnished are quite heavily redacted, some/many so much so that they are, for all purposes, blank and therefore useless.
P.S.--After all, I guess this is merely the kind of stuff we can expect from someone (or someones) who appoints two Presidential political appointees to "investigate" the alleged improper leaks of very sensitive national security info by what is, or at most likely is, other Presidential political appointees. May be something like foxes and henhouses involved here??
And yes, I know this happens frequently in politics of all sorts. However, not to sound too much like Pollyanna, inappropriate conduct by some does not, in any way or at any time, justify similar conduct on the other side of the fence.
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