Fox news reports AG Eric Holder knew about “Fast and Furious” a year before he testified in Congress

It’s an explosive report, that even CBS news picked up on. The e-mails are damning. It’s also pretty clear the motivation behind the program called  “fast and furious”.

This scandal gets closer and closer to the White House and new documents show Holder was briefed more than once on the Mexican gun running program known as Fast and Furious, guns that were later used by drug cartels to not only kill hundreds of Mexican citizens but also a US border patrol agent.

New documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial Fast and Furious operation as far back as July 2010. That directly contradicts his statement to Congress.

On May 3, 2011, Holder told a Judiciary Committee hearing, “I’m not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.”

Yet internal Justice Department documents show that at least ten months before that hearing, Holder began receiving frequent memos discussing Fast and Furious.

Even worse the memos seem to indicate the sole purpose of Fast and Furious was not to track straw purchasers but rather to provide false evidence that American guns illegally sold, were responsible for the growing violence, presumably to allow for Obama to crack down on gun sales in border states. Listen to this report from Foc.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJEzeS4yhi8

Set aside possibly purgery on the part of the AG, the real scandle is the set up.

Two Justice Department officials mulled it over in an email exchange Oct. 18, 2010. “It’s a tricky case given the number of guns that have walked but is a significant set of prosecutions,” says Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division. Deputy Chief of the National Gang Unit James Trusty replies “I’m not sure how much grief we get for ‘guns walking.’ It may be more like, “Finally they’re going after people who sent guns down there.”

Writes AP at Hot Air:

Well, obviously it does reach into the upper levels of the Department. Even if you’re willing to buy Holder’s absurd excuse that he had no reason to know the details of the operation despite knowing that guns were being walked to Mexican drug lords, we’ve got the memos from Breuer and the Drug Intelligence Center and the e-mail discovered by CBS between Weinstein and Trusty. (I’m dying to know which “other case” the DOJ thinks they were discussing, per the Department’s excuse to CBS.)

Make no mistake my little barbarians a key part of this program was to make sure that US guns showed up in Mexico to give the young president the “ammo” he needed to not just prove his point that American gun sellers were supplying the Mexican cartels, but also allow him to call for greater gun control in the border states. The president himself, and we pointed out last March, talked about this with the Mexican president.

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19 Comments

  1. Dimsdale on October 4, 2011 at 9:48 am

    I guess “fast and furious” better describes the coverup rather than the crime.



    • Lazybum on October 5, 2011 at 12:06 pm

      Dims-I will list that as one of the top ten things this year that I wish I had said first!



    • Dimsdale on October 6, 2011 at 12:02 pm

      😉



  2. RoBrDona on October 4, 2011 at 2:05 pm

    1. Liberals viscerally hate guns and everything they stand for.
    2. They would do anything to discredit the purchase and ownership of guns.
    3. The saintly presence of the O emboldens some of the Kool Aid drinkers to act.
    4. Holder gets confirmation of the activities?as early as?July, 2010.
    5.?May, 2011 Holder?perjures himself to protect the O from?this?cynically vapid?program.?
    6. Hear pins drop from most of the MSM and?every elected Democrat in America.
    7. No surprises here – none at all. ???
    ?



  3. Anybody but Obama on October 4, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    The House Judiciary Chair wants zero to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate if Holder lied. It’s going to be an interesting next few months of stonewalling.



  4. Anybody but Obama on October 4, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    Things are getting a little uncomfortable with DOJ and the White House. Somebody must be right on point with her investigative reporting.

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/04/cbs-journalist-white-house-doj-officials-yelled-at-me-over-fast-furious-reporting/



    • Lynn on October 5, 2011 at 8:39 am

      This is a great interview. Why am I not surprised that one of the few true investigative journalists in the msm and (CBS, if you please) is a woman! Also, that she was interviewed by one of our own CT grown women, Laura Ingraham. Ok thanks to Matt Wolking her new producer, some men get it right and work for a strong, independent minded woman.



  5. winnie on October 4, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    Hahahahahaaaa…Holder receives dozens of emails like this every week and “doesn’t always read them”.? This reminds me a bit of what happened with the AZ immigration law that Holder & his peeps bit**ed about for various reasons (racial profiling, due process, equal protection).? And I quote:?
    ?I?ve just expressed concerns on the basis of what I?ve heard about the law. But I?m not in a position to say at this point, not having read the law, not having had the chance to interact with people are doing the review, exactly what my position is,? Mr. Holder told the House Judiciary Committee.
    Does this guy even know how to read?



  6. johnboy111 on October 4, 2011 at 7:32 pm

    watergunrunner????



  7. ricbee on October 4, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    Obama may have enough cover but I’m sure this blatant lie will be exposed & hopefully Holder will be forced to resign.



  8. Lynn on October 5, 2011 at 8:52 am

    As Dims keeps saying our educational system is deteriorating fast and furious(ly).
    According to Attorney General Holder from July 2010(when memos show he knew about F&F) until-( just a few weeks before) May 3, 2011 is just a few weeks. That’s great Math for you, maybe that is why this administration can not figure out trillions of dollars of debt.?
    And being duplicitous so that they can make a case about where the drug cartels get their guns, not even MAD magazine could have predicted our DOJ could sink so low. Can you say Newspeak?



  9. SeeingRed on October 5, 2011 at 9:10 am

    The truth comes out, a little at a time….



  10. Lazybum on October 5, 2011 at 12:08 pm

    Can’t wait for Obama to use his “I’m guilty” phrase describing the investigation as “just a distraction”…I am guessing that will come out NEXT October, right before the election….



  11. Plainvillian on October 5, 2011 at 3:35 pm

    Culture of Corruption…



  12. Anybody but Obama on October 6, 2011 at 7:49 am

    The CBS?investigative journalist?that has been uncovering facts for Fast and Furious is now being made unavailable. Is CBS being pressured by Generalisimo Zero to bury the facts?

    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/10/is-cbs-news-covering-up-fast-and-furious-for-white-house.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29



    • Dimsdale on October 6, 2011 at 8:28 am

      Interesting.? But of course, there is no liberal media.? The liberal media tells me so.
      ?
      I hope Atkinsson doesn’t end up reporting from the Afghanistan bureau…



  13. JBS on October 6, 2011 at 9:55 am

    Ignorance of the law is NO excuse, Mr. Holder. So, who in the White House suggested channeling guns to the Mexican drug lords? Hmmmm . . . ?



  14. phil on October 7, 2011 at 8:02 am

    Children, can you say, “Accessory to Murder”?



  15. Dimsdale on October 7, 2011 at 12:28 pm

    ?bama just gave Holder the political kiss of death: he said he has “complete confidence” in Holder, which usually results in a perp walk or resignation “to spend more time with his family”.
    ?
    Of course, the Chicago way is to give him the one way memorial Vince Foster tour of Fort Marcy park.



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