Not So Fast, Furious Holder
Eric Holder was scheduled to testify today on the now famous operation known as Fast and Furious. Briefly, this operation, aka Project Gunrunner, was Arizona-based and designed to be a sting operation whereby the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which is an arm of the Department of Justice, allowed "straw buyers" to purchase weapons from Arizona gun shops and move them across the border into Mexico to be used by the drug cartels. The ATF then was supposed to trace them and stop the gun-trafficking . And while that's what the DoJ is telling us, I'm not so sure they are being totally honest (yeah, like that isn't worth a ROFLMAO moment).
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| Kenneth Melson |
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The Acting Director of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, has been spilling his guts to avoid the administration from pushing him under the bus by taking the fall for what has to involve, at the very least, the US Attorney's Office, FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and possibly the Homeland Security Department. This probably has Eric Holder's skivvies all twisted up if Melson knew about any involvement at the top.
The House committees investigating the DoJ, headed by Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley, have accused the Justice Department of blocking their investigation. You probably are aware that the operation led to the death of Border Agent Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexican nationals. Most disturbing beyond this was that taxpayer financing from other federal agencies may have funded this crazy scheme.
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| Darrell Issa |
Issa said of Holder's umm, withholding: "It is one thing to argue that the ends justifies the means in an attempt to defend a policy that puts building a big case ahead of stopping known criminals from getting guns. Yet it is a much more serious matter to conceal from Congress the possible involvement of other agencies in identifying and maybe even working with the same criminals that Operation Fast and Furious was trying to identify."
Holder, while answering questions, pulled a Gingrich--he attacked the questioners with statements claiming it is beneath the auspices of a Congressman to ask probing questions. He would obviously not like to be questioned or implicated in any involvement with this illegal operation.
There are 93 thousand documents that Holder refuses to give to the committee. Democrats are saying that this entire debacle is political, having nothing to do with the fact that Holder may be involved. We now know that he lied when he originally said that he only knew of the operation for a few weeks, having to "walk back" that statement to say he knew of it for a couple of months, then saying that both statements don't contradict each other. (He also is hard-pressed to say what the definition of the word "is" is.) For Holder, a couple of weeks, a couple of months, well, it's his version of legal accuracy--you can't nail him on it.
What we can be certain of, is that these hearings are just heating up and the heat is on Holder.
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