Holder Claims Emails Using Words ‘Fast and Furious’ Don’t Refer to Operation Fast and Furious

cnsnews.com ^ | June 07, 2012 | Matt Cover

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

(CNSNews.com) – Attorney General Eric Holder claimed during congressional testimony today that internal Justice Department emails that use the phrase “Fast and Furious” do not refer to the controversial gun-walking operation Fast and Furious.

Under questioning from Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who read excerpts of the emails at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department oversight, Holder claimed that the phrase “Fast and Furious” did not refer to Fast and Furious but instead referred to another gun-walking operation known as “Wide Receiver.”

However, the emails refer to both programs -- "Fast and Furious" and the "Tucson case," from where Wide Receiver was launched -- and reveal Justice Department officials discussing how to handle media scrutiny when both operations become public.

Among three of the emails (see Jason Weinstein Email Fast, Furious.pdf), the second, dated “October 17, 2010 11:07 PM,” was sent by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein to James Trusty and it states: “Do you think we should have Lanny participate in press when Fast and Furious and Laura’s Tucson case [Wide Receiver] are unsealed? It’s a tricky case, given the number of guns that have walked, but it is a significant set of prosecutions.”

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

It's an outrage that the man who holds the highest law office in the land can tell a bold faced lie before members of Congress. What's worse, Congress refuses to hold this man accountable for supplying Mexican drug cartels with assault weapons resulting in the death of American border agents and countless Mexican citizens.

Why hasn't Obama forced Holder to resign? Is this constant climate of distrust in our own government part of Obama's strategy at undermining our Republic?

[newnhdad]

Depends on what the meaning of “is”, is...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Eric Holder is a cowardly, racist, murdering SOB who deserves to die in a prison cell.

[In Maryland]

Maybe the Republican members need to take a page from “Animal House” and start coughing “Bulls***” every time Holder tells a whopper. Might be hard on their voices though.

[Batman11]

“Holder Claims Emails Using Words ‘Fast and Furious’ Don’t Refer to Operation Fast and Furious”

I literally laughed out loud at this one. What a lying POS this Holder is!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for posting this....saw the last part of the hearing....missed seeing this.

[Drill Thrawl]

Simple solution to this:

Indict
Try
Convict
Execute

For capital murder. And the whole ATF too while they're at it.

[dblshot]

His lips are moving fast because he is furious.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Moderator, this is a duplicate thread. I noticed ‘Nachum’ already posted this. My apologies.

[ClearCase_guy]

It's almost like finding a man standing over a corpse with a smoking gun in his right hand.
The corpse has been shot once in each arm, once in each leg, and twice in the head.
The standing man holds a hand-wriiten note in his left hand.
The note says, "I will track you down. I will shoot you once in each arm, once in each leg, and twice in the head".

And the standing man says to the cops, "It's not what you think ..."

[pasr]

If he can't answer who was in charge of Fast and Furious and who ordered the scheme than a contempt citation is in order.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

He sounds like a traffic stop on the TV show Cops!

[spawn44]

Withholder will continue to lie and play what he considers his noble games because he is protecting Obama and according to his LIBERAL IDEALOGY he doesn’t believe he did anything wrong. Issa should keep up the pressure because this thing is bound to expode sooner or later, implementing not only WITHHOLDER, but OBAMA and his CABINET.

[cripplecreek]

He’s just a really big Vin Diesel fan.

[Disambiguator]

Just like the term “Global Governance” doesn’t mean “World Government.”

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

And ‘Democrat’ doesn’t mean ‘Socialist’. /s

[Paladin2]

What you goin’ to believe, me or your lying eyes?

[theDentist]

I agree Holder should be impeached, dragged from office, his suit torn off him, and he thrown into the street for Police to arrest him as a vagrant.

However, does it help to leave him constantly be called before Congress to lie again and again? Pressing charges/indictments helps

[BipolarBob]

“Our words mean what we say they mean”.

[muir_redwoods]

“E’s not dead, E’s just pining for the fjords”