Posted on 06/07/2012 12:48:01 PM PDT by 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.”
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WHI: Borrowed time. Tough-tough-tough. Smart. You know…now don’t take this the wrong way here now…I come to respect him on some level. Not saying I like the man – not in the least. But he has managed to intimidate enough people…use the machine to his advantage…the guy is good. Real good. And that is horrible for the country. That’s why I have been saying for – since we started this. The guy has got to go. Got to be forced out – removed…whatever. I called him Obama’s firewall…long time ago. Right? Day one that’s what I called him. Obama’s firewall. Jarrett’s firewall. Jarrett has kept him in place. Confirmed that. There was a moment…last year. Late last year. Talks within the administration – they were getting heat from some of the boys on the Hill. Wanted the bad P.R. that was surrounding the DOJ to be put to bed long before the election year stuff ramped up. Take their licks and then move on. So they wanted Eric Holder to step down. Put a fresh face in there.
(Pause)
You mind if I go on about this for a bit?
UM: Go ahead – please proceed.
WHI: So…where was it? Where was I?
UM: Members of Congress wanted Holder gone. Before the election year started.
WHI: Right – that’s it. They – not a big group of them…but some big names. Handful of them telling the White House…they were worried the hearings might catch on with the public…Fast and Furious – they didn’t want to contend with that situation during an election year. So they wanted Holder out. They made that clear – made it very clear to the White House.
…then Jarrett got word of it. Real quick of course because almost everything that is to get to the president she approves of first. I told you that – two years ago. Before almost anyone even knew who the hell Valerie Jarrett was, right? She is management in the White House. She has the veto power over who gets in and who stays the f-ck out. So she got word of these particular Democrats – a Senator in particular who the rest of them were hiding behind. And she brought the wrath of God down on that poor bastard. There was a meeting. The two of them. Face to face. He was at the White House on something totally unrelated – but she had someone send him up to the second floor – her office upstairs. The real West Wing in the Obama White House…and she absolutely destroyed a United States Senator and she didn’t give a sh-t who overheard it. The man left her office…he was pale. Shaking like-like one of them poor palsy bastards.
There had to have been a threat made. On him. On his family. Money. Something. And she must have made it absolutely clear to the guy she was not playing around. And there has not been a word about Holder stepping down from those people since. This Senator you see – the others were hiding behind him. They figured he had enough…hell I woulda thought the same damn thing. The guy is a f-cking institution. She left him pale and shaking and once he backed off – the others went running for cover.
You ask me about Valerie F-cking Jarrett? That’s Valerie Jarrett and her relationship to the Obama White House. She IS the Obama White House. Even Michelle defers to her – and that woman…she’s a hard unlikeable…I won’t use that word…but even she defers to Jarrett.
Obama hasn't forced Holder to resign -- and he's not going to -- because Holder is his firewall.
This is what we get for posting jokes about it. Holder must have seen that cartoon and now that’s his story.
Dickie Durbin? Tom "Dungheap" Harkin?
“Depends on what the meaning of “is”, is...”
Indeed...
“Depends on what the meaning of “is”, is...”
Or what the meaning of “was” was!
If there was justice, Holder would hang.
If there was justice, Holder would hang.
Oh! They were talking about the movies....
Holder: “These are not the droids you’re looking for.”
Press: “Ok. Move along.”
“...Simple solution to this:
Indict
Try
Convict
Execute
For capital murder. And the whole ATF too while they’re at it....”
We recently stopped and visited Goliad, TX which is down in south Texas. It’s an old town with a lot of history. In the old section where the courthouse square is, there is this great BIG old tree called the “Hanging Tree”. They used to actually hold court right on on the grounds and then hang em 10-15 at a time in the old days....now that was a DOJ!!! Maybe it’s getting close to that having to reinstate the old days.....naaa, cruel and unusual punishment and all that liberal stuff. But one can wish.
The great generation that put the Nazis on the noose at Nuremburg is long gone.
This new negro Nazi party will skate just like the Clinton cartel did in the 90s.
President Romney will not purge our government of the corrupt racist trash anymore than Bush did after he was elected.
Where have the soap box and the ballot box gotten us now?
This.
Any side bets on how long Obummer’s pardon list is going to be?
Can’t wait to see it, come December.
Thank you Carrie Nation.
When the next admiistration comes in, will there be any records of Holders decisions found at DOJ? I expect a lot of empty file drawers.
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