All that speech proves is that Holder knew about Gunrunner just as many did. The key to Holder’s (and Zer0’s) knowledge about F&F is in how it was funded......and THAT was part of the stimulus bill. Lemme search out that link.
Holder stated:
“Last week, our administration launched a major new effort to break the backs of the cartels. My department is committing 100 new ATF personnel to the Southwest border in the next 100 days to supplement our ongoing Project Gunrunner, DEA is adding 16 new positions on the border, as well as mobile enforcement teams, and the FBI is creating a new intelligence group focusing on kidnapping and extortion. DHS is making similar commitments, as Secretary Napolitano will detail....But as today’s conference has emphasized, the problem of arms trafficking will not be stopped at the border alone. Rather, as our experts emphasized, this is a problem that must be met as part of a comprehensive attack against the cartels – an attack in depth, on both sides of the border, that focuses on the leadership and assets of the cartel. This is the type of full-bore, prosecution-driven approach that the U.S. Department of Justice took to dismantle La Cosa Nostra”
To me his words suggest far more than that Holder just “knew about Gunrunner”....he knew it was going to be broadly expanded, into Mexico, 5 months before it happened.