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Holder Challenges 'Fast and Furious' Allegations in Scathing Letter to Congress
FoxNews.com ^ | 10/7/11 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 10/07/2011 1:55:06 PM PDT by ColdOne

Attorney General Eric Holder, in his most forceful comments to date about the gunrunning probe known as "Fast and Furious," defended himself Friday in a letter to Congress and accused his Republican critics of making "irresponsible and inflammatory" claims.

The Justice Department released the letter late Friday. It was addressed to top Republican and Democratic lawmakers, and comes in the wake of GOP calls for a special counsel to be appointed to investigate Holder's involvement.

Republicans have released routine memos that appear to show Holder was notified about details of the program as early as summer 2010, though he testified to Congress that he only found out in early 2011.

Holder stood by his claims in the letter.

"I have not spoken at length on this subject out of deference to the review being conducted, at my request, by our Department's Inspector General. However, in the past few days, the public discourse concerning these issues has become so base and so harmful to interests that I hope we all share that I must now address these issues notwithstanding the Inspector General's ongoing review," he wrote.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; castaway; cia; dea; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; holderliedpeopledied; ice; obama
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To: ColdOne

This is so disgusting....I can’t think of a punishment bad enough to fit Holder’s crimes and lies.


101 posted on 10/07/2011 4:57:10 PM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: ColdOne

This isn’t 1811 or 1911.

Today there are too many ways to track communications.

holder will be fried for his lies, IMO.


102 posted on 10/07/2011 5:08:49 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

“The mills of the Gods grind slow but they grind exceedingly fine”, at least I hope they do in this case.


103 posted on 10/07/2011 5:11:28 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: ColdOne

This isn’t 1811 or 1911.

Today there are too many ways to track communications.

Holder will be fried for his lies, IMO.


104 posted on 10/07/2011 5:11:45 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: OKSooner

Hey, if was good enough for Stalin...


105 posted on 10/07/2011 5:51:09 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Montanabound
...and was deeply involved in Waco, Ruby Ridge, and the Elian Gonzalez disaster.

Waco and Elian Gonzalez, yes. Along with the Marc Rich pardon.

But Holder had nothing to do with Ruby Ridge, which was a George H.W. Bush administration miscarriage.

Lets get it right...

106 posted on 10/07/2011 6:23:46 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: BilLies

The adults are talking —mind your place:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171286/posts

So...as Reno’s Number 2 at Justice at the time, do you really THINK Holder had no place in the events at Waco?

You believe that? That’s ridiculous.

No one thinks Reno held the match, but does this vitiate Reno’s role at Waco...? Why NO ONE thinks that..!

Holder was Janet Reno’s right-hand man...!

Note:

1. Holder was also behind Clinton pardon of Marc Rich, who gave the space technology to China that radically upgraded her ballistic missile tech (they later threatened to nuke Los Angeles)

2. Holder was also behind the pardon of the Puerto Rican terrorist group, the Boricua Popular Front, which had a long history of violence & stole millions (in NYC or Connecticut or somewhere back east)

3. In private practice Holder defended some Colombian terrorist groups, but that was at least 10 years ago, IIRC

The ONLY good legal action Holder ever took was to represent the NFL’s actions against Vick after he fought and killed those dogs.

That’s it.

Eric Holder DESPISES the USA, and he has made that the focus of his ******ENTIRE LEGAL CAREER****.

He has made his clear entrance into the mind of Joe Q. Public only recently, but he has been at this a VERY LONG TIME.


107 posted on 10/07/2011 6:44:17 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: drypowder

see my post immediately above.


108 posted on 10/07/2011 6:45:53 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin
Eric Holder DESPISES the USA, and he has made that the focus of his ******ENTIRE LEGAL CAREER****.

He also shut down an investigation into Acorn, and New Black Panther voter intimidation case. He came from a law firm that represented terrorist in Gitmo

109 posted on 10/07/2011 7:17:40 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: basil

...This is so disgusting....I can’t think of a punishment bad enough to fit Holder’s crimes and lies....

Oh I can, turn him over to the Zetas, they know how to take care of their enemies

on another note will Obama or Holder be visiting Mexico roon to give tell tehir lies and excuses there? Methinks not.

caution very grossly graphic blog del narco-shows the violence in Mexico -an everyday event.

http://www.blogdelnarco.com/


110 posted on 10/07/2011 7:20:26 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: ColdOne

Holder is a racist, a bastard and one of the arch-henchmen in the Chief Criminal - Barrack Obama’s - political crime machine.

He and Obama should be impeached and sent to Leavenworth for their crimes.


111 posted on 10/07/2011 7:50:25 PM PDT by ZULU (DUMP Obama in 2012)
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To: kcvl

Speaking of Hillary, make her produce a piece of paper that gives ATF the permission to “export” those weapons to Mexico. There has to be a paper trail of that. Make the State Dept cough it up. If it’s all above board, there should be no problem.


112 posted on 10/07/2011 8:21:35 PM PDT by bergmeid
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To: bergmeid
lol up next what did hillary know and when did she know it? is the authorization going to be found on her nightstand? What a dilemma for Hillary to cough up the authorization and go down with the ship or not?
113 posted on 10/07/2011 8:35:08 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: rolling_stone
Waterboard Holder. He'll spill his guts in a heartbeat. Then do the same on the people he implicates. Then ship them all to Gitmo until the war against Islam is over or the Islamists kill them — whichever comes first.
114 posted on 10/07/2011 8:43:52 PM PDT by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: rolling_stone

There’s a slew of questions for Big Sis too..... and the FBI..... we’re just getting started!


115 posted on 10/07/2011 8:48:01 PM PDT by bergmeid
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To: Starboard

He is committed to his 4 page letter. It will be dissected and vivisected....and any incongruities will be there for all to see. Holder, by his nature, is hubretic and a liar and an intriguer. This will make it interesting.


116 posted on 10/07/2011 8:52:57 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (I ou)
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To: Texas Songwriter

(attorney) Holder sure is stupid and reckless....maybe he has a fool for a lawyer...


117 posted on 10/07/2011 8:57:06 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: sam_paine
To be sure, during 2010 I knew generally that ATF was conducting gun trafficking operations along the Southwest Border and elsewhere in the country

That's what I want details on.

Thanks for posting it. Early on page four I couldn't help but imagine a sweating Holder rolling a couple of steel balls, staring hard at the picture in his mind of his dismal future as he dictated this letter.

118 posted on 10/07/2011 8:59:27 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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To: bergmeid

Obama - Hillary
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/world/americas/17prexy.html


119 posted on 10/07/2011 9:40:37 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: rolling_stone

50 ways to leave your lover step out the back Jack, here’s the plan stan..(hillay, eric, etc)

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin507.htm


120 posted on 10/07/2011 9:50:57 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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