Posted on 10/07/2011 3:21:22 PM PDT by sunmars
In a letter to Congress, Attorney General Eric Holder has gone on the record with the most details yet about what he and other Justice Department officials knew about ATF's Fast and Furious operation, even though memos surfaced earlier this week showing multiple briefing memos mentioning Fast and Furious were sent to him as early as July of last year.
Holder says that his testimony to Congress, stating he first heard of Fast and Furious earlier this year, "was truthful and accurate... I have no recollection of knowing about Fast and Furious prior to the public controversy about it."
In his letter, Holder also criticized the House Committee investigating Fast and Furious, saying he cannot sit idly by "as law enforcement and government employees who devote their lives to protecting our citizens be considered 'accessories to murder'."
Holder maintains he didn't know about the controversial gunwalking tactics used in the case.
The Attorney General says that while he was sent received memos on Fast and Furious, they are "actually provided to and reviewed by members of my staff and the staff of the Office of the Deputy Attorney General."
As CBS News has reported, the Deputy Attorney General during Fast and Furious, Gary Grindler is now Holder's Chief of Staff. Documents provided to Congress indicate Grindler received a detailed briefing on Fast and Furious in March of 2010 and made handwritten notes on briefing materials.
However, in the letter, Holder says Grindler "was not told of the unacceptable tactics employed in the operation in his regular monthly meetings with ATF"
"I now understand some senior officials within the Department were aware at the time there was an operation called Fast and Furious although they were not advised of the unacceptable operational tactics being used in it,"
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
he finally came out of hiding to and its more like forced out of his hole.
10/7/2011 4:44:54 PM · 66 of 89
rockinqsranch to sam_paine
Just a matter of process. He’s established his defense in writing, and will now until the end of time say “as I said.....”, or “you have misconstrued my statement”, whatever. It’s a point of focus to redirect future inquiries, and allegations. It’s an obstacle for use in his defense.
“The buck stops here.” You’re in charge, you incompetent boob! Or are you? Resign now or get the ax!!
I notice he used the obligatory “i have no recollection”
He’s become that doll with the string on the back, pull it and out pops a dem soundbite.
Well it sounds like someone at the DOJ knew.
What’s he doing to get to the bottom of it?
Here in Arkansas, we just canned the director of the state lottery system because he didn’t know his accounting departement wasn’t paying taxes on time. It was his responsibility to know.
Same needs to happen here.
does not read his own mail? um, not believable. Perjury.
Yup-but he still LIES like a Crooked politician aka Democrat.He still LIES like a homosexual gay rights advocate.
“I have no recollection.......
This is legalese for “I’m lying to you right now but I won’t admit it, so my attorney advised me to say “I can’t remember”.
He’s a f’n LIAR.
Notice the date.
That's a real leader for you.
So he’ll be using the incompetence defense then?
According to FOX news (the FIVE) the adminstration just made another Friday night document dump of FOIA eMails.
Sounded as if they were mostly Solyndra. It wasn’t clear because they were talking about Fast & Furious and Solyndra pretty much in the same time frame.
Seemingly not with these people, the buck stops "over there, no, over there, yeah, yeah, it's Bush's buck."
I'm wondering if Holder will pull out Al Gore's "wee wee" defense (drank too much iced tea and had to go).
I have no recollection...check.
HOLDER IS LYING HIS PANTS OFF.
(note: elections have consequences. Yes, we all know that McCain is not a conservative? But would he have made Holder attorney general of the United States? I don’t think so......)
Does the ASS ATTORNEY, Eric Holder think that the rest of us are as stupid as the average Demorat Voter?? GOD BLESS HIS IGNORANCE, ARROGACE, and STUPITITY!! He really is an a corrupt and decayed MORON!
The old “Plausible deniability” ploy, eh?
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