BREAKING NEWS: Attorney General Holder Scrambles to Escape Accountability over ‘Fast and Furious’
by AWR HawkinsI just received an email with a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder attached to it.
The hard copy of the letter was sent to the House Oversight Committee in what appears to be a rather strained attempt to quell the storm surrounding Fast and Furious.
Addressed to Congressmen Darrell Issa (R-CA), Lamar Smith (R-TX), and Elijah Cummings (D-MD), as well as Senators Patrick Leahy (D- VT), Charles Grassley (R-IA), and John Conyers Jr. (D-MI), the letter is basically an overview of everything that’s wrong with Fast and Furious as well a collection of criticisms regarding the way the investigation is being run. Not surprisingly, it’s missing the one component we’d all like most to see – Holder’s admission of guilt.
Although the letter is benign at points, those benign sections are eclipsed via the obvious goal of using the letter to turn public sentiment against the Congressional investigators and thereby undercut the investigation.
Consider one excerpt from the letter:
I simply cannot sit idly by as a Majority Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform suggests, as happened this week, that law enforcement and government employees who devote their lives to protecting our citizens be considered “accessories to murder.” Such irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric must be repudiated in the strongest possible terms. Those who serve in the ranks of law enforcement are our Nation’s heroes and deserve our Nation’s thanks, not the disrespect that is being heaped on them by those who seek political advantage.
This paragraph merits a few comments.
First of all, the original voice behind the idea of charging those involved in the planning and oversight of Fast and Furious as accessories or “accomplices” to the murders committed with Fast and Furious weapons wasn’t a Congressman, but Sheriff Paul Babeu (Pinal County, AZ).
It was Babeu who said:
It is insanity that they [ATF/DOJ] could try and rationalize this and still withhold and try to cover up information that implicates them. What I learned just as a regular police officer is that anybody who is involved in assisting other people in crimes, that drive the getaway car or give guns to people who know they’re going to commit crimes, and even if they didn’t know they would end up killing somebody, guess what we call those people? Accomplices, and they’re charged as well with the same crimes as the people who pulled the trigger.
(I can understand why Holder didn’t credit Sheriff Babeu with saying these things. After all, it’s hard to pit Congressional investigators against law enforcement agents when the law enforcement agents are the one’s making the tough allegations.)
Speaking of law enforcement agents, notice how Holder is now praising them as “our Nation’s heroes,” deserving of “our Nation’s thanks.”
Hmmm…. I wonder if Mr. Holder would like to make good on these praises by picking up the phone, calling the family of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, and granting them the “victim of crime” status they so clearly deserve? (God bless the family of Brian Terry.)
Anyway, the whole letter is shame. Angry words written by an angry man whose falsehoods are daily being uncovered.
It’s little wonder that Frederick Hill, spokesman for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, had this to say about the letter:
If Attorney General Holder had said these things five months ago when Congress asked him about Operation Fast and Furious, it might have been more believable. At this point, however, it’s hard to take at face value a defense that is factually questionable, entirely self-serving, and a still incomplete account of what senior Justice Department officials knew about gun walking.
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Spin…lie…spin…twist…lie…spin…twist….the same ol' dance of the Democratzi 'loons' and their false messiah!
GET RID OF HIM…GET RID OF HIM AND THE PUPPET OF THE BILDERBERG…OBAMA THE BUSH…GET RID OF HIM AND THE PUPPET OF THE BILDERBERG…OBAMA THE BUSH AND ALL OF HIS HENCHMEN!
IMPEACH THEM ALL!
Hmmm. So is the DOJ trying to fly under the radar of another Friday Document Dump?
"Obama Fundraiser Pushed Solyndra Deal From Inside"
Check it out:
"An elite Obama fundraiser hired to help oversee the administration's energy loan program pushed and prodded career Department of Energy officials to move faster in approving a loan guarantee for Solyndra, even as his wife's law firm was representing the California solar company, according to internal emails made public late Friday.
"How hard is this? What is he waiting for?" wrote Steven J. Spinner, a high-tech consultant and energy investor who raised at least $500,000 for the candidate before being appointed to a key job helping oversee the energy loan guarantee program. "I have OVP [the Office of the Vice President] and WH [the White House] breathing down my neck on this."
Many of the emails were written just days after Spinner accepted a three-page ethics agreement in which he pledged he would "not participate in any discussion regarding any application involving [his wife's law firm] Wilson [Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati]." http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/obama-fundraiser-pu....
ACCESSORY TO MURDER… HOLDER and 0BAMA
Special Prosecutor now!
Time to take out the trash. Eric Holder first…The Marxist is next. We then prosecute the czars. This is no time for "malice towards none". Progressives need to be taught a lesson. Their acolytes in academia that are stoking this hatred must pay the price as well.
Anyone who is doing nothing about this White House is somewhat complicit. Join your local Tea Party and get involved. 2012 may be our last chance to save our country for our children and grand-children.
What this fool is pissed about is he cannot believe any mortal human being would even consider investigating any of his, or his offices behavior.. It is just a matter of time before he plays the race card.. Why is it so easy for a democrat to get away with perjury???
"Cambridge police acted stupidly". Oh, wait. There is no bad news that cannot be spun as good news in this administration. Liars will lie.
I think Holder's arrogance and my "sh#t don't stink" persona has come to an end. The realization that he is probably going to be drawn up on contempt charges has just hit him up side the head. Being an election year, Obama will throw him under the bus head first.
Maybe this self-serving letter is his last gasp attempt to defend himself.
Nice to see condescending LIBS get their come upuns.
That Friday document dump has become a big job over at the Whitehouse. A lot of folks are missing happy hour.
Hire a nasty, viscous, rabid, junkyard pitbull of an independent council and sic them on Holder.
I'd gladly raise the National Debt if need be to finance Holder's way into jail.
Holder is a twit and needs to go down the highway. He talks the talk, but he can't walk the walk. What a whiny, sniveling, worthless wus.
By now EVERYBODY should realize that OBOZO's imbecile AG (and Black Panther Party supporter and defender) holder, like all lunatic-left d-cRAT socialists, is a habitual, chronic, pathological LIAR. It's part of their make-up which EXCLUDES ethics, morals, honesty, social values, etc. This is best illustrated by the people they revere – like ted kennedy, who began his illustrious career by being expelled from Harvard for cheating, went on to drown Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick while drunk, and then turned to a life of more drinking and debauchery punctuated by brief periods in CONgress to shaft hard-working, taxpaying American citizens to give freebies to slugs, slackers, deadbeats, liars, freeloaders, losers, taxpayer-leeches, cheats, ILLEGALS and potheads. And then, of course, there is bill "monical-stain" clinton, whose immense short-comings need no elaboration. And "YOU LIE!" OBOZO-the-Clown is appropriately named.
d-cRAT socialists totally lack a rational, humanist foundation. The latter, in a lunatic-leftist, is replaced by an all-consuming devotion to their warped ideology, which is manifested, to them, in an all-controlling, all-powerful, omnipresent, nanny BIG GOVERNMENT which, for them, is equivalent to a deity.
I vote for Mark Levin.
Drip….wiggle, squirm,
Drip……huff, puff
Drip……stomp, point fingers
Drip…..gone….
Holder Lied, People Died.
Holder Lied, People Died!!
HOLDER LIED, PEOPLE DIED.
HOLDER LIED, PEOPLE DIED!!
Impeach Holder NOW!
Fine, get off your @ss and hand your letter of resignation to the Criminal in Chief. Still need something to do? Go turn yourself in to the FBI and confess to professional misconduct, perjury and accessory to multiple homicides. There are probably other charges too, but you are more "expert" in these matters than I. Maybe if you spill your guts on the others involved (Obama) We the People will ask for leniency in your sentencing.
Hypocrite. Jerk. Killer…
yes, whoever aids a crime, is guilty of the crime. the law enforcement people inside the atf are not accomplices, since they are doing the job assigned them, it is the people who told them to commit the crime that are the guilty ones. so who authorized this stupid operation?? holder, obama, or both, they are the ones who need to go to jail for this role in the killing of people on both sides of the border. these agents did what they were told, and were not happy about what they were doing, but did it.
Attorney General Eric Holder!
How about Brian Terry, the Border Patrol agent that was Murdered by your Guns you sold to Drug Cartels using Obama stash Money!
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot and killed near Rio Rico, Arizona, while attempting to apprehend a group of armed subjects. The suspects had been preying on illegal immigrants with the intent to rob them.
Agent Terry and several other agents were attempting to arrest the group when shots were exchanged between the suspects and agents. Agent Terry was struck in the pelvis by a round fired by a suspect armed with an AK-47.
The wounded agent was flown to a hospital where he succumbed early the following morning.
Four members of the group were taken into custody and at least one suspect remains at large.
Agent Terry was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and had served with the United States Border Patrol for 3.5 years. He had previously served as a police officer with the Lincoln Park, Michigan, Police Department. He is survived by his parents, brother, two sisters, five nieces, and one nephew.!
MR. HOLDER you are a lying SCUMBAG!
SHOW RESPECT TO HIS FAMILY!
RESIGN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The memos show that Holder was FULLY briefed and approved. There is another memo showing the the Nat Security Council (as per Fed statute) was informed. That means both Holder & Obamao are guilty of treason and need to be tried and then shot.
I love to watch them sweat!
Can't we just end this whole hiring of fundraisers thing? This is so stinky, and I'd advocate that all politicians be barred from doing this.
Also, isn't this a different guy from the other Solyndra investor and Obama bundler/fundraiser that has already been discussed?
Holder feels that, like the toddler, he is above the law. Law is reserved for us mere mortals(ormigas); it's not applicable to the ruling class.
Not me. I'm combining the two. I watch for the Friday Document Dumps at home, but combine that with my own "Happy Hour."
Looks like the same guy who wrote Obama's latest speech,using some out of work teacher as an example,who is not out of work at all wrote Holders letter.
I will enjoy watching disgusting people like Holder twisting in the wind. I looks like it is only a matter of time…….
But there was a beer summit, and at its conclusion everyone was all warm and fuzzy. Maybe Holder needs one with the ATF, ICE, FBI, DEA, stateless dept, and the family of the slain agent to put the entire issue to rest.(sarc)
Holder thumps his chest and says,you can't touch me,I'm backed by the Great Obama and his New Black Panther Party.
The ends justify the means with these people. If a little blood must spill, we'll so be it. As long as it's not theirs.
Holder's letter is nothing more than a desperate re-direct of the subject. It is a sign of cowardly weakness. I think Holder is as nervous as a whore in church… maybe more so since the whore didn't facilitate murders. Perhaps the seriousness of the consequences is starting to take root.
No problem. The anointed one already has a presidential pardon in his hip pocket for the posterior kisser just in case he starts to disintegrate in place. It does seem from his reply to Issa that he has begun to come apart at the seams already.
we the people can not sit by while you break the law and refuse to be held accountable
Holder is THAT GUY sitting in the pool, surrounded by dye, speaking about the poor bladder control of others. He's not familiar enough with the truth to actually speak it aloud.
Stop focusing on the bilderbrgers and focus on Soros
Presumably, none of Holder's people were killed.
You focus on Soros…and I'll focus on the Bilderberg. This way we will cover all the enemies of the United States of America!
Get it?
Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed by one of these guns, with at least two more at the scene.
It's not the rank and file that have committed treason Mr. Holder. It is you.
With no racist intention whatsoever I am reminded of a television commercial for a brand of Salsa, if memory serves me it was Pace, made in El Paso, Texas…………the gist of the commericial was some "dude" from back east trying to pass off some other Salsa………….the offended cowboys had a response when they read the label of the "fake" salsa…………."made in New York City?………get a rope!" In the case of Holder and all who have knowledge of this, get the cells ready in Fort Levenworth.
I want her to keep saying "OBAMA THE BUSH," though. I laugh every time I read it because I interpret it as vulgarity.
Obama and his entire administration that I can tell is incompetent. It appears that a large number of the incompetents are also corrupt.
It is really time to sweep house, or a Ms. brain dead Pelosi would say—drain the swamp.
Yup. Price is no object on this issue.
……and it's free entertainment too. The document dumpers are probably low level GOOGLE employees doing some volunteer work for the Socialist Party of America(aka Moveon.org). Mostly likely not of legal age to consume alcohol.
Um isn't this the same Eric Holder's Justice Department that was considering if not reinvestigating the CIA for how they handle our prisoners of war. That was an attack which easily meets the words, "government employees who devote their lives to protecting our citizens be considered 'accessories to murder'" That didn't seem to stop the justice department then. What created this new standard?
Oh that's right we know that Holder and the Justice Department haven't cared about our protection.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
Holder says: "Those who serve in the ranks of law enforcement are our Nation’s heroes and deserve our Nation’s thanks, not the disrespect that is being heaped on them by those who seek political advantage."
But Holder thanks them by getting them killed by illegal arms trafficking. That's some respect there Holder.
If they were ordinary citizens, we would arrest first then prosecute. I say treat them like everyone else!
Why doesn't Sheriff Paul Babeu (Pinal County, AZ) charge Holder with the facts available? It is obvious he is guilty. What is stopping him from dragging these scumbags into court? Holder and his puppeteer obama had no qualms dragging Arizona into court.
FILE THE CHARGES, SHERIFF!
Ron Reale
realetybytes.com
It's disgusting that Holder is trying to hide behind "law enforcement officers and gov't employees who protect the citizens".
technically you can only demand Holder resign. If you had an Attorney General who cared about the public like he did we woudn't have this mess to begin with or at least we would be talking about the person who Obama nominated to replace an Eric Holder who had already resigned!
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
The greatest accomplishment of democrats is that they made themselves immune to purgery. Or is it that Republicans talk the talk and don't walk the walk.
ATV is technically part of the Justice Department. That's why he was briefed on the program. His people were killed. HE JUST DOESN'T CARE!!!!!
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
The hypocrite is too self-centered to realize his lies are heaping his own disrespect to our heroes by seeking his own political advantage….amazing how he can sleep at night. This man has no conscience and no soul…..
Don't you know we learned because Ken Starr was so obessed with sex that the public doesn't care about perjury unless it was Ken Starr.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
Holder knew and Obama knew about the entire program. Even after The House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform released this video from March 24, 2009: http://youtu.be/-PNhYk9NuNc
Rep. Darrell Issa stated that "silence, stonewalling and spin." is how the Obama Administration is responding.
Legally, under United States Federal Law, which is all I care about, because it is United States Law, the Attorney General can indeed be Impeached.
Where's Judge Roy Bean when you need him?
Unfortunately Holder is subject to sovereign immunity while in office. He needs to be impeached, convicted, removed from office and then charges can be filed.
Holder is going with the "I am incompetent" defense.
Funny thing is, I was aware of Fast & Furious long before Holder says he knew about it … just by reading the news. What does that say about our Chief Legal Officer in the nation?
Lying, better known as "perjury" in the Barack Obama regime seems to be running rampant these days. Solyndra, Fast & Furious, Healthcare fiasco lies, Black Panthers, jobs bill joke and then we have this:
http://floydreports.com/obamas-point-man-on-the-s...
Indict , Arrest and WATERBOARD . He will squeeel like the PIG he is !
And why do you think Obama was telling the "brady bunch" he had to do gun control "under the radar: … And why hasn't the lamestream put 2 and 2 together.
I admit I didn't realize that, but does it cover murder? Could he walk out onto the sidewalk, hand a bum a gun, and let him kill someone with it? I think murder is beyond any immunity he might have, but, unfortunately, I'm probably wrong, (but I don't see how! Immune from a murder charge? Really? That's just wrong!)Ron Realerealetybytes@yahoo.comhttp://realetybytes.comhttp://coachisright.comhttp://bnnreports.com
Article I, Section 3, last paragraph covers it. He'd need to be removed from office, indicted, given a fair trial, and then hung. The reason for that is so that someone in a high office wouldn't be harassed by scurrilous charges. The Paula Jones vs. Clinton thing was slightly different because I believe the complaint was entered before he took office.
They could be mean about it and charge him directly with High Treason against the United States of America. Do you think it would be OK with him then?
Holder and Obama did a count! They see that despite the success of the tea party there remains a huge body of GOP RINOs at large and they calculated.
Yes. The RINOs will run from impeachment and punishment for these two–and others!
Yes. The RINOs will go gooey and soft! All Holder and Obama need to to is be "tough," talk "tough," act all picked on by a "few" radical members of the Congress. And GOP RINOs will all walk away like the guns waked off to Mexico.
RINOs better ignore the "tough" because it's bull crap…and get some tough themselves! No deal cutting…not compromising! Because RINOs doing THAT is how we got in this mess!
RINOs need to start impeaching obviouse criminals OR BE IMPEACHED, themselves!
Holder in prison or civil war. Take your pick! Those are your only two choices!
Obama, Holder et al don't care. Their populist movement has captured the hearts and minds of morons everywhere and revolution is in the air. This could very easily go out of control(meaning at the behest of the One)and irrevocable, deleterious and lasting changes could harm our republic. They're on the road to perdition and they'll drag us down with them.
I accept what you say, but I wish he'd charge him anyway, get this into the mind of everyone and make Holder fall back on that for a murder charge. Having the charge over his head might make him roll on the puppeteer.Ron Realerealetybytes@yahoo.comhttp://realetybytes.comhttp://coachisright.com
I'd only suggest that the greater good would be served by taking out Obama first, next Biden then all the rest. it should only take a couple of days, provided we have enough orange jump suits.
Add waterboarding for an hour a day during prison term.
If this issue goes away quietly, then Nixon's bust needs to be carved on Mt. Rushmore.
And I would bet Big Money Mexican Cartels are Large Donors to o'DUMBASS and the DNC.
Obama, Holder, Biden and all the rest of this administration are the surest example of an American criminal class. Al Capone would be proud of all of them, but hey they all provide the best reason I've ever heard to reopen Alcatraz. Think was a great tourist attraction, Obama's cell, The exercise yard where Holder corn holed Biden, just think of the possibilities, we could pay off the national debt with admission fees alone.
Seems I remember Obama wanted to crack down on gun laws giving the violence on the border as the reason , say ing that american guns were flowing across our border. Seems like an insidious ploy to attempt to pass laws to disarm the American people. Its Interesting that he was responsible for those guns going across the border and some of the thousands of people killed these past few years.
i'm noticing the trolls aren't touching this issue with the proverbial ten foot pole…
Walpin or J C Adams.
The Bilderberg, the Bilderberg, the Bilderberg,the Bilderberg,the Bilderberg,the Bilderberg,the Bilderberg,the Bilderberg,the Bilderberg,the Bilderberg,the Bilderberg,the Bilderberg,the Bilderberg,the Bilderberg, and, finally the Bilderberg,. Oh, and did I mention the Bilderberg?
Thank you, Eileen, for protecting this country from the Bilderberg. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot… What exactly is this "the Bilderberg"?
Eileen, when your family finally places you in the padded room, we here at the Bigs will miss you. Sorta like the way you miss a toothache, after the dentist fixes the problem.
If Chairman Zero is re-elected, we are well and truly toast. Your comment rings with truth.
LOL!
More than luck we need some honest politicians. Wait, I guess that does mean we need a whole lot of luck.
Our government is spiraling out of control…..They are as criminal as the drug cartels they arm!!!!
LMBO
Libs aren't good with math.
They are reporting that around 44,000 mexicans have been murdered from the F&F guns so far. I think mexico would really like to put Holder and "O" in their prisons for a while on accessory to murder charges. And on the day they get released the U'S. extradicts them back here on the same charges. They'll both have soo much to look forward to. Meanwhile Mudshell can go back to working on the same corner down in south chicago she used to.
The guns that went into Mexico came from the US through the government. The drug gangs used these guns in both Mexico and in the US. Besides many Mexicans, US Border Agents paid the price of these gun sales. The US government would then claim that illegal guns were being sold to Mexio's drug cartel by gun owners in the US and now they were killing Americans. THEREFORE, we must have gun control and limits on gun ownership. Was this the ultimate purpose of the web Attorney General Holder tried to weave??? He would not embark upon such a risky policy without approval from above. And who is the one to whom Holder reports to???? One guess.
No DOUBT!
Thanks for the words — plenty o' truth in 'em.
My sentiments exactly. It seems we have finally found something they can't defend factually. They don't have a problem with this morally. It was for the greater good, after all.
I'm going to have to strongly disagree with your assertion that those law enforcement personal who knowingly went along with this are completely free of guilt just because they were only following orders. I seem to recall that some Nazi war criminals tried to use the very same excuse to escape justice, which didn't quite work out for them in the end. Neither should it in this case. If you're issued an order that you know to be clearly unlawful and immoral, it's your civic duty to refuse to carry it out. You should never blindly obey authority; you should always question it's true intentions and act accordingly. Working for government doesn't exempt you from this either.
well, as it turns out, the agents were the whistle blowers in some of the cases. they knew what they were doing was not right, but had to follow orders. no, it was not like they were pulling the trigger, but partially they were responsible. but, if thier testimony can root out the real guilty parties, i do not blame anybody for letting the pawns go, if we can get the higher ups. we cannot compare these agents to nazi's, because they weren't knowingly putting people in gas chambers, or killing people. i do know lots of people on the south of the border did die as a result, but the mexican government is partially responsible for not stopping the drug lords in the first place. and i see no point is making agents forced to do this being scapegoats for the higher ups, and those responsible in mexico.
Greenpeace should be protesting outside the DoJ, over the trees killed to make all the paper they're burning at night
Ideally, he should be impeached…. then deported to Mexico to stand trial for all *their* citizens he helped kill.
Holder will like Mexican prison
that is an excellent point, i did forget that quote, and indeed this looks like the under the radar plan. and this could be what is needed to throw the bum out!!
You forgot narcissist.lol Speaking of bill "monical-stain" clinton, getting some in the oval office is nothing compared to the rest of his presidency.Read Col Buzz Patterson's book 'Dereliction of Duty" carrier of the nuclear football for Slick. Just what he did concerning the Chinese was criminal.
This whole "Fast & Furious" thing is 1,000,000 times WORSE than anything Richard Nixon and his 'plubmers' did that ended up costing Nixon his presidency.
How come the Liberal Media isn't going after Obama with the same zeal they had for "Tricky Dicky"?
The fish stinks from the head……..
Seems I remember Obama wanted to crack down on gun laws giving the violence on the border as the reason , say ing that american guns were flowing across our border.
BINGO, The real reason this program was started in the first place and Holder/Comrade know all the details, the real reason for Holder stonewalling congress. Mark my words, Holder will take one for the team here sooner or later.As far as I'm concerned this issue and Solyndra can drag out all the way to election day.
Didn't the Leftist Clown-in-Chief say a day or so ago that he has complete confidence in Holder? Hope Holder has already cleaned out his desk 'cause that is a clear sign he will be tossed under the bus in 3……….2……..1…… LOL
Isn't he also the New Black Panther Party's legal counsel? LOL. Damn double dipping government worker
obama is going to need a specially built "Monster Bus" to be able to make it over the big pile of former friends he has tossed under it.
Sorry Eric
Ever hear that saying that if you're sitting at the card table and can't figure out who the mark is, it's you?
After the 2010 election disaster your head was sold to keep Issa from going after Obama. This letter of yours is no way to man up and fall on your sword for your messiah. After all, what do you think minions are for?
I usually am critical of the use of all caps in any comment………But in this case it is certainly appropriate. Heads really need to roll on this. I wonder if obama already has grants of immunity and pardons filled out and in his desk somewhere.
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