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Politics : Fast and Furious-----Obama/Holder Gun Running Scandal -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (239)	1/23/2012 1:23:06 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 749

Eric Holder thinks that he best way to stop arms from this country from getting into the hands of the drug cartels in Mexico is to provide arms to the drug cartels in Mexico.

To: Wayners who wrote (239)	1/23/2012 4:03:23 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 749

Boehner, Cantor press secretaries balk at calls for Holder’s resignation By Matthew Boyle - The Daily Caller dailycaller.com BALTIMORE, Md. — During a House GOP retreat in Baltimore on Friday, press secretaries for Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor balked when asked if their bosses believe Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over Operation Fast and Furious. Sixty-three congressmen, two senators, two sitting governors and every major Republican presidential candidate have demanded Holder’s ouster over the resulting scandal. And 89 congressmen have signed a House resolution of “no confidence” in Holder as the nation’s top law enforcement officer. Between the two lists, which don’t perfectly overlap, 101 members of the House have “no confidence” in Holder, believe he should resign or both. Though that number — 101 Congressmen — is nearly half of the 242-member Republican caucus in the House, and the surge continues to grow, the press secretaries for Boehner and Cantor refused to answer the question. Boehner spokesman Michael Steel has ignored emails on the subject for months, but when TheDC caught up with him at the retreat and again asked if his boss thinks Holder should resign for the gunrunning operation that killed U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and at least 300 Mexican civilians, Steel replied, “I don’t think he has said anything on that.” TheDC followed up with Steel in the lobby of the Waterfront Marriott and asked him if he’d just ask Boehner the question. “Yeah, maybe,” Steel replied. As of 5 p.m. on Sunday, Steel still hasn’t answered whether Boehner agrees with the 101 members in the House GOP caucus about Holder. Instead, Steel said, “The speaker appreciates the hard work that Chairman Issa and many others have done to expose this scandal. President Obama’s Department of Justice needs to be accountable.” Cantor’s press secretary, Laena Fallon, deflected questions in a similar way, telling TheDC that Cantor “doesn’t sign onto legislation, as a rule, as majority leader” Fallon was referencing House Resolution 490, the bill that expresses “no confidence” in Holder because of Fast and Furious. When asked if Cantor agreed “with the concept,” Fallon replied, “I don’t know.” TheDC: Can you ask him for me? FALLON: I’ll see, he’s in meetings. TheDC: I can take an answer whenever. It’s just a “yes” or “no.” FALLON: I’ll ask and see if I can get you something, but I don’t know what he’ll say.” By Sunday at 5 p.m., Fallon has still not responded. Fast and Furious was a program of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, overseen by Holder’s DOJ. It sent thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels via straw purchasers — people who legally purchased guns in the United States with the known intention of illegally trafficking them somewhere else. At least 300 people in Mexico were killed with Fast and Furious weapons, as was Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. The identities of the Mexican victims are unknown. Allegations have surfaced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata was also killed with Fast and Furious weapons. Read more: dailycaller.com

To: Wayners who wrote (239)	1/30/2012 12:10:20 AM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 749

Eric Holder knew of Fast & Furious killing months before congressional testimony communities.washingtontimes.com PHOENIX, January 29, 2012 President Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, had the Department of Justice dump more documents relating to botched Operation Fast and Furious on congressional officials late Friday night. The documents reveal that Holder learned of the death of Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, on the day it happened. The released emails show a conversation between one official, whose name was redacted, and now-former Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke. “On December 14, 2010, a BORTAC agent working in the Nogales, AZ AOR was shot. The agent was conducting Border Patrol operations 18 miles north of the international boundary when he encountered [redacted word] unidentified subjects. Shots were exchanged resulting in the agent being shot. At this time, the agent is being transported to an area where he can be air lifted to an emergency medical center,” the email read. Another email sent an hour later, read: “Our agent has passed away.” Burke then forwarded those two email to Eric Holder’s then-deputy chief of staff, Monty Wilkinson, adding that the shooting was “not good,” due to the fact that it had happened “18 miles w/in” the United States border. Wilkinson responded with, ““I’ve alerted the AG [Holder], the Acting DAG, Lisa, etc.” Later that day, Burke sent an email to Wilkinson alerting him that the guns used to kill Brian Terry were weapons from the gunrunning operation, Fast and Furious. “The guns found in the desert near the murdered BP officer connect back to the investigation we were going to talk about – they were AK-47s purchased at a Phoenix gun store,” Burke wrote to Wilkinson in an email. These document dumps always occur late on Friday nights, when the media isn’t around to report on them. Then when the congressional hearings occur, Holder cries wolf and tries to portray himself as innocent. Holder told Congress on May 3, 2011, “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.” He later amended that claim, saying that it would have been more accurate to call the time period “a couple of months.” These emails clearly show that Holder lied to Congress and that he knew of Operation Fast and Furious by December, 2010. This scandal continues to unfold and has become the biggest Washington scandal since Watergate. It should be a key election issue and should be pursued by the Republican presidential candidates. Holder could potentially be looking at perjury charges due to these emails. However, it is unclear if his vague answer draw such action. Eric Holder will appear on Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee and its chair, Rep. Darrell Issa, to testify.