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Eric Holder admits differences between F&F, OWR.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 10th, 2011 at 10:30 AM  | 

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(Via Instapundit) For those needing background: “F&F” is Operation Fast & Furious, which is an Obama-era operation in which guns were actively allowed to cross over the border (without any attempt to track them) and illegally resold to Mexican narco-terrorists, without the permission (or even the awareness) of the Mexican government. “OWR” is Operation Wide Receiver, which was a Bush-era operation where rather less guns were allowed to cross over the border to be resold to Mexican narco-terrorists; in stark contrast, the government did atttempt to track the guns and did keep the Mexican government in the loop. Despite this, Democratic partisans have attempted to paint these two operations as identical.

This gambit has now been neatly scuppered, thanks to Senator John Cornyn’s (R, TX) getting Attorney General Holder on the record about this, once and for all.

See more here: the relevant portion of that video is where Cornyn makes Holder admit the differences mentioned above – and, more importantly, deny that he (and, by implication, the government) wanted to equate the two operations. I know that Sen. Cornyn may not be on every conservative activist’s Christmas Card list, but getting Holder on the record like this makes a lot of our lives easier: from this moment on, trying to play Bush-did-it on F&F/OWR puts the person trying that particular spin in direct opposition to sworn government testimony under oath. That’s very useful, and Cornyn should be commended for getting that right for us.

Moe Lane

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  • sargeantshooter

    As my Grandpa always told me “Even a blind hog will find an acorn now and then.”. But it will take a lot of acorns to erase Charlie Crist, Mike Castle et al.

  • http://www.ArchitecturalShots.com mdyou

    …with an ‘affirmative action’ hire. If Obama was determined to install an African American as Attorney General, even a liberal one, he certainly could have done better than this guy.

  • ss396

    Maybe some day I’ll forgive him for that, and this kind of thing helps. But for now, I still get angry every time I think of it.

  • Castor

    CRASS AND SPURIOUS !!!!

  • juumanistra

    Because going to bat for the only Republican to win a competitive election for statewide office in the past ten years was such a bad thing! How dare the NRSC meddle in the primary politics of a state with a long history of political outsiders imploding and an elected bench of entirely two plausible candidates, one being Castle and the other being the eternal and eternally unambitious Auditor of Accounts Tom Wagner! Truly, the man has violated our most basic precepts and must be shunned for his crimes!

    If you want to hold a grudge against Cornyn for the NRSC’s meddling in Kentucky and Florida, that’s fine: Those grievances are plenty legitimate, because of the existence of relatively large stables of viable GOP candidates. In Delaware, for better or worse, our only option was Mike Castle: If he was not on the ballot for the Senate, all that was left to do was go through the motions and get ready for Senator Coons. Of course, Castle had to run an atrocious primary campaign, and got himself beaten by angry voters from south of the C&D Canal who’d've voted for a ham sandwich over Castle. (Of course, the candidate we actually got was far worse than a ham sandwich.)