Permit me to summarize this CBS video on Operation Fast & Furious*:
Eric Holder: I only heard about Operation Fast & Furious after it blew up in 2011!
CBS: Here’s a list of memos that shows that you were briefed on Operation Fast & Furious, starting in July.
Eric Holder: Oh. That Operation Fast & Furious. Yeah. Um. I, err, misspoke . Didn’t know the details.
Seriously, Holder’s argument – if one can dignify his response with such an august label – is what Hot Air calls the “I didn’t do my homework” defense. Apparently the Attorney General is a busy man who doesn’t have time to read all of the memos sent to him by the assistant AGs:
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
If the video doesn’t load: the link is here. It pretty much repeats the information in the CBS clip: I put up these two videos mostly to demonstrate that, yea indeed, this story is now at the point where the national media – including the broadcast networks – is taking it seriously. I also want to note three things about the CBS video in particular that is very, very entertaining:
- Putting the DoJ’s denial at the end pretty much demonstrates that CBS doesn’t take Holder’s explanation any more seriously than you or I would.
- Dan Rather probably hates life right now. Entertainingly, that observation works whether or not you think that he’d a be reliable Democratic partisan hack under these circumstances.
- The best part of that CBS clip is the fact that it’s being distributed by the House Oversight Committee. Translation? Chum in the water.
I think that we are seriously going to need a special prosecutor for this one.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
*Operation Fast & Furious, for those people who don’t know, was a government program where federal law enforcement agencies deliberately allowed guns to be illegally resold to Mexican narco-terrorist gangs, in order to see where said guns ended up. As said agencies also promptly lost track of said guns, mostly by actively and deliberately ignoring long-standing safeguards, they usually found the firearms only at various Mexican crime scenes – including one where federal Border Agent Brian Terry was killed by Mexican narco-terrorists. Oh, and the Mexican government was not told that we were giving Mexican narco-terrorists the guns that they then used to kill Mexican civilians.
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Indict Holder now
harryvarden Tuesday, October 4th at 10:00AM EDT (link)Time to take the gloves off and demand a special prosecutor
Ahh... so we're going with the "I'm not a liar, I'm just incompetent" defense.
Jewels Tuesday, October 4th at 10:15AM EDT (link)Duly noted.
Which should come 1st
paulnashtn Tuesday, October 4th at 10:44AM EDT (link)Impeachment or special prosecutor
Special Prosecutor needed
jag57 Tuesday, October 4th at 11:05PM EDT (link)What is needed is hearings like the Watergate hearings that brought down President Nixon. Watergate was all about paranoia and stupidity, but I can’t recall a single death caused by Watergate, so this operation, whatever they choose to call it, is at least 200% more serious than Watergate, If this doesn’t bring down this entire corrupt regime, we will know there is no justice for those that were murdered with these weapons, just so they could try to impose more illegal and unconstitutional gun control on law abiding citizens. Exactly what part of “infringed” don’t these dirt bags understand?
Starting with Obama, Holder, and ATF head, the ones responsible for this should be held criminally and financially accountable for the murders of 200+ these guns killed, and should never spend a day on the outside of a Federal prison,
I didn't lie, I mispoke. That usually works,
johnt Tuesday, October 4th at 11:02AM EDT (link)not for Normal People but for media freaks and other retards who vote Democrat it serves as the voice from the burning bush.
Holder always gave dishonesty a bad name, from his pimping for Hilary, getting her off the hook on a obstruction charge, to today when his reptillian ways seem to have slipped in both the remnants of morality and the smoothness of his slime.
If you stay perfectly quiet you can hear the grinding of teeth over at the august NY Times, they may even have to at some point put this story in print, bottom of page 25.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
Maybe Issa Can
flannery Tuesday, October 4th at 11:57AM EDT (link)convince the Department of Justice to charge Holder with perjury. (And elephants will be flying at the same time).
If the theory making the rounds can be proven. . .
msctex (Diary) Tuesday, October 4th at 2:29PM EDT (link). . .that this cluster— was actually an attempt to justify any sort of attack or ultimate suspension of the 2nd Amendment, the word which will need be used to justify the act is Treason. It is nothing less.
We will find ourselves in uncharted waters, with Watergate suddenly in context as the second-rate botched burglary it was, and a sitting President quite possibly implicated in a direct conspiracy against the Constitution is he sworn to uphold and protect.
Even the most cynical among us wouldn’t have believed this was a possibility. But here we are. They are eventually going to have to choose a justification for this act. The only thing we can be sure of is that it will be a lie.
Lets not sound like the idiot "truthers"
kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, October 4th at 2:33PM EDT (link)I would rather not get into all sorts of speculation about ulterior motives. It is plenty bad enough that they were just incompetent and criminal.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
Hence the "if"
msctex (Diary) Tuesday, October 4th at 2:45PM EDT (link)The most chilling aspect of all this is the inability of anyone to come up with even a half-hearted explanation regarding ultimate intent. This was an organized attempt at accomplishing Something. The incompetence and criminality is a given. But it is true intent which is at the heart of the matter, and their silence speaks a library of volumes.
And if you would rather not speculate, then don’t. But there is no harm in acknowledging possibilities. The truly scary part is I hope I’m wrong.
I see no reason to doubt their given reasons for their actions. They were just stupid.
kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, October 4th at 3:14PM EDT (link)And let’s not pretend that we haven’t had similar stupidity in government before.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
Such as?
msctex (Diary) Tuesday, October 4th at 3:45PM EDT (link)The fact this raises the bar in Government stupidity is rather the point. To what can you compare it?
wage and price controls,
kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, October 4th at 4:48PM EDT (link)wars on poverty, drugs, terror, etc. Agricultural subsidies, ethanol, cash for clunkers, solyndra, the list is endless. All of those things are stupid in the extreme, maybe not as sinister, but every bit as stupid.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
Death raises the bar.
msctex (Diary) Tuesday, October 4th at 4:52PM EDT (link)The neologism “Felony stupid” is floating around for a reason. I’ll be the first to agree their capacity for Stupid is endless, and predicated upon the contradictions in their most fundamental processes of thought. But this gun running thing is truly beyond belief. It is the nadir, but with over a year left to go.
Whether guilty or incompetent Holder is now dead weight to this Administration...
Justin Spagnolo (Diary) Tuesday, October 4th at 3:21PM EDT (link)Please, oh Please… let’s not just let this one go by without a Special Prosecutor… we need to know how far this goes…
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. “ -James Madison
Such as?
msctex (Diary) Tuesday, October 4th at 3:21PM EDT (link)The fact this raises the bar in Government stupidity is rather the point. To what can you compare it?
Ignore.
msctex (Diary) Tuesday, October 4th at 3:44PM EDT (link)Meant for above.
It's all about Hillary
jag57 Tuesday, October 4th at 11:27PM EDT (link)I see this as a way to try to prove our Communist Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, cover for saying 90% of guns recovered in crimes in Mexico came from the United States. It’s all about disarming all but criminals, in and out of government. Evil will not succeed, with or without the UN terrorists that Hillary is trying to get the UN Small Arms Treaty with.
Isn’t October 24 UN flag burning day? Just 20 days from now.