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Holder: ‘I Stuck by My Guns’
CNSNews.com ^ | June 12, 2012 | Fred Lucas

Posted on 06/12/2012 8:25:32 AM PDT by CNSNews.com

(CNSNews.com) – Embattled Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that he has “stuck by my guns” during his time in office.

“I’ve enjoyed my time as attorney general,” he told the panel. “It’s been a tough job. It is one that takes a lot out of you. Some raised concerns as to whether I was tough enough for this job. I think that people will hopefully see that I’ve done this job in a way that is consistent with our values.”

He was responding to Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) who asked Holder if he would consider serving a second term as attorney general if Obama is reelected.

“I stuck by my guns,” Holder continued. “I’ve been criticized a lot for the positions that I’ve taken. I’ve lost some. I’ve won more than I’ve lost. I’m proud of the work that I’ve done. More important, I’m proud of the 116,000 people in this United States Department of Justice. This has been the highlight of my career to have been the attorney general of the United States, to work with you all and to serve this president. What my future holds, frankly, I’m just not sure.”

The House Oversight and Government Reform committee, which has been investigating the Justice Department’s involvement in a gunrunning operation dubbed “Fast and Furious,” plans to vote June 20 on whether to hold Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to provide more than 100,000 subpoenaed documents pertaining to the botched gun sting.

As part of Fast and Furious, a Justice Department program that began in September 2009, law enforcement knowingly allowed about 2,000 U.S. guns to flow to Mexican drug cartels, with the intent of tracking the weapons and making arrests. However, law enforcement lost track of most of the weapons.

The program was halted in December 2010 after two weapons from the program were found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2deadfeds; 300deadmexicans; atf; banglist; dea; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; ice; murdergate; obama
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1 posted on 06/12/2012 8:25:35 AM PDT by CNSNews.com
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poor choice of wording


2 posted on 06/12/2012 8:27:36 AM PDT by chopperman
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incriminating.


3 posted on 06/12/2012 8:27:46 AM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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No, no, you didn’t stick by your guns. You gave them to criminals.


4 posted on 06/12/2012 8:29:53 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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“I stuck by my guns” heh heh


5 posted on 06/12/2012 8:30:07 AM PDT by BipolarBob
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Holder, you can stick something and put it somewhere.


6 posted on 06/12/2012 8:30:19 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Romney - not Obama - not a Conservative - not a real Christian)
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sounds like a resignation speech.


7 posted on 06/12/2012 8:30:37 AM PDT by SueRae (The Tower of Sauron falls on 11.06.2012)
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Eric - resign in disgrace because that is what you are.


8 posted on 06/12/2012 8:32:20 AM PDT by dainbramaged (I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery - Thomas Jefferson.)
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I’ve won more than I’ve lost.

Not by my count....you lose every time.

9 posted on 06/12/2012 8:32:31 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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“I stuck by my guns — very fast and very furious.”


10 posted on 06/12/2012 8:32:34 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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Sounds like a bitter clinger.


11 posted on 06/12/2012 8:33:09 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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:: I’ve done this job in a way that is consistent with our values.” ::

By "our" he means the New Black Panther Party (a melanin enhanced subsidiary of the Communist Party USA).

12 posted on 06/12/2012 8:33:22 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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Remember BO’s definition of “sin”?

“Sin is... being out of alignment with my values.”

That is VERY VERY telling.


13 posted on 06/12/2012 8:34:42 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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“I’ve enjoyed my time as attorney general,” he told the panel. “It’s been a tough job. It is one that takes a lot out of you.

Killing all those people in Waco was really draining......................

14 posted on 06/12/2012 8:34:46 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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“stuck by my guns” during his time in office.

If he had he would be down there in Mexico where his guns went.

15 posted on 06/12/2012 8:36:59 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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Stick a fork in him, he’s done.


16 posted on 06/12/2012 8:38:13 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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Send ole Sticky Fingers down to Mexico to personally retrieve the guns he had walked.


17 posted on 06/12/2012 8:40:10 AM PDT by Paladin2
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I’m proud of the 116,000 people in this United States Department of Justice. . .

failing to provide more than 100,000 subpoenaed documents . . .

I'm seeing a pattern here. He made each one of those poor employees eat a subpoenaed doc. That's why he's so proud of them. I'll bet some were 50 pages long!

18 posted on 06/12/2012 8:43:35 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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Don’t forget the OKC connection.


19 posted on 06/12/2012 8:48:04 AM PDT by Paladin2
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I don’t know. I think Holder wins every time he faces Congress, lies his heart out, and walks away instead of being cuffed and Frog-marched to the nearest Federal Prison.


20 posted on 06/12/2012 8:48:35 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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