Posted on 10/04/2011 6:27:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
Scandal: A major-league pitcher was indicted for lying to Congress about steroid use. Administration memos show Eric Holder lied about what he knew about Fast and Furious and when he knew it. What's the difference?
Somewhere, Scooter Libby must be scratching his head. He was indicted and convicted simply because his recall of when a meeting occurred differed from others. He didn't lie about a gun-running operation that led to the deaths of two American agents and at least 200 Mexicans.
But Attorney General Eric Holder did, according to memos obtained by CBS News and Fox News.
They show Holder lied to Congress on May 2, 2011, when he was asked about when he knew about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Fast and Furious gun-running operation. He told House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa he was "not sure of the exact date, but I probably learned about Fast and Furious over the last few weeks."
Holder learned of the operation as early as July 2010 in a memo from the director of the National Drug Intelligence Center informing him of an operation run by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force out of the Phoenix ATF office, under which "straw purchasers are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug cartels."
On Oct. 18, 2010, one of Holder's chief deputies, Lanny Breuer, chief of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, told Holder in a memo that prosecutors were ready to issue indictments of a few gun traffickers involved in Fast and Furious.
A memo the day before from Deputy Attorney General Jason Weinstein to another lawyer in the Criminal Division, James Trusty, asked if Breuer should do a press conference when Fast and Furious became known.
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Do you all think Holder will take the fall for obummer? If Holder is indicted will he sing like a canary?
In these articles they still give Holder the benefit of doubt whenever they can. Instead of saying Holder knew as early as a certain date the more accurate statement should be he knew at least as early as date given. There is strong circumstancial evidence that he knew about it right from the start as he and Obama cooked the whole thing up, maybe with Hillary’s input.
You have a point my FRiend, zer0 posted a fraud birth certificate right on the White House web site, Adobie specialist took it apart, nothing has ever been said.
1/2 black race card, played again
But - Keep the foot on the AGs neck and do not let up. Stay with this and ride the socialist, marxist, democrat, leftest out of office.
Its all we can hope for, it seems.
Dear Mr. Holder, please turn over all your communications to Obama’s private Blackberry #.
Right, and take the cost of the missile out of his pay.
What I want to know is how long regular Joe Americans are going to shake their tiny fists in outrage, yet do nothing?
Yeah, I'm seriously fed up with this. The media could cause an outrage of epic proportion over this, but they won't because it's their hero Obama behind it.
Just imagine if it were a Republican administration to blame. It would be the biggest scandal ever and they would be rightfully calling for heads to roll.
You’ve just been reported to attack.com. I called the FBI. They know all about me. I mean, ummm, you.
There is absolutely no doubt that he’d be indicted if he were a Republican. Indicted and convicted.
I don’t think he’ll be indicted by the liberal establishment, though, and he certainly won’t be convicted by a DC jury.
True. 50/50 is worth rolling for.
I wonder what the statute of limitation is for perjury in DC?
It will have to wait for a new attorney general.
We all have Miss Lindsey Graham to thank for Holder being the AG.
Graham should be removed from the Judiciary Committee.
Would holder be the fall guy for zero or will he give up his boss to save himself?
Try him. Sentence him. Put him against the wall with a blindfold and a cigarette.
“Waco was worse. Nothing happened to any feds.”
I have to disagree with you about this one in particular. If I recall correctly Vincent Foster experienced an “assisted suicide” as a result of Waco...or so the story goes!
Thanks.
Were there any fast and furious gun runners in Maricopa Co. Arizona?
Sheriff Joe Arpaio might just want to investigate Attny. Gen. Hold-no-crimminals.
A lot is being made of al-unlucky being whacked in Yemen. We should follow the process, all 2 minutes of it, and give Holder his due.
Don't tell me you would have been okay with that
INHALE, stupid!
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