Attorney General Eric Holder has finally agreed to appear before Congress and testify about what he knows and when he knew it about Obama’s secret operation to arm Mexican narco-terorists with guns from American gun stores, paid for by tax dollars.
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has been trying to get the Department of Justice to hand over records for weeks but has met with a lot of obduracy from the Attorney General.
Over the last few months it appears that the Democrats have finally arrived at their defense of Holder and Obama. They are claiming that Operation Fast and Furious was some sort of rogue operation that neither Obama, nor Holder, nor even the then head of the BATF, Ken Melson.
The committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings (Maryland), said that he’d rather hear from Ken Melson and not Holder because he believes the public records will show that F&F was carried out by the Phoenix office of the BATF without “proper supervision” by agency authorities in Washington.
“With respect to our own Committee’s investigation,” Cummings wrote in a recent letter to Chairman Issa. “I do not believe it will be viewed as legitimate or credible — and I do not believe the public record will be complete – without public testimony from Kenneth Melson.”
Through his attorney, now former BATF head Ken Melson said he would cooperate fully.
Still, the facts known thus far would seem to argue against Cummings’ reduction of culpability. We already know that the DOJ had gotten quite a few emails about F&F during its destructive run. And Holder has already changed his story about when or if he saw those emails half a dozen tines.
More as the story progresses but if you’d like to catch up on what we’ve reported thus far, feel free to use the links below.
Previous Coverage
- Holder To Testify About Fast And Furious
- Congressman Walsh Calls For Eric Holder’s Resignation
- FBI Pressed to Say Which F&F Gun Used to Kill Border Agent
- Another Empty Obama Promise: Fast And Furious Screw Ups Will Pay
- Issa Now Probing FBIs Part in Fast & Furious
- How Did Obama Know About Fast & Furious Before Attny Gen Holder Did?
- Attny Gen Holder Faces Subpoena in Fast & Furious Investigation
- Obama’s Illegal Guns End Up In Arsenal of Killer in Mexican Drug Cartel
- Holder vs White House: Who Is Accountable?
- Obama FINALLY Gets a Direct Question on F&F from Old Media, Naturally He Ignores It
- BATF Officials Reassigned Over Fast and Furious
- Fast And Furious Finally Starting to Get Some Old Media Coverage
- Reporter Says Obama Officials Cursed at Her Over Fast And Furious Questions
- House GOP Asks for Special Prosecutor For AG Holder’s Lies on Fast & Furious
- Is Fast and Furious Obama’s Watergate?
- Obama Ignores F&F Questions From Latino Media, Also F&F Guns At Texas Crime Scenes
- Documents Revealed: Tax Money Used to Buy Guns for Fast & Furious
- More Pressure on Obama’s DOJ OVer Fast & Furious
- Issa Getting ‘Zero Percent’ Cooperation from DOJ on Operation Fast & Furious Investigation
- Up to 150 Mexican Citizens Killed By Obama’s Gunwalker?
- Secret Recordings Shed More Light On Obama’s Gunwalker Program
- Issa Doubts Holder Could Have NOT Known About Fast & Furious
- Napolitano Denies Knowledge of Fast & Furious – Plus 3 More Murders Linked to F&F
- Ariz. Gun Shop Owner Suspicious of Fast and Furious
- Eric Holder: Fast & Furious? What is that, a Movie?
- Obama’s Gun Running: White House Officials Knew More Than They Claimed, Also More Guns Showing Up at US Crime Scenes
- Fast and Furious Investigation Expands
- Finally: Gov’t Official Resigns Over Obama’s Arming of Mexican Narco-Terrorists
- New Mexico Officials Arrested, Likely Part of Obama’s Gun Running to Mexican Narco-Terrorists
- Gun Walker Guns Linked to 11 US Crime Scenes, BATF Officers PROMOTED!
- Was Obama’s CIA Behind Guns for Mexican Narco-Terrorists?
- Memorial Video for U.S. Border Agent Killed By Obama’s Gun Running Program
- Obama Mentioned ‘Gun Tracing’ in 2009 Mexico Visit
- BATF Official: The White House Knew About Fast and Furious Gunrunning Operation
- Obama’s Guns Appearing at Mexican Crime Scenes
- ATF Director Worried That DOJ Kept Him in the Dark
- Democrats Really Are Using Illicit Gunwalker Program to Push New Gun Banning Laws
- Was Obama’s Arms for Naco Terrorists Program an Attempt at Pushing Gun Control?
- Obama Directly Connected to Murderous Gunrunning Program
- Rep. West Calls for Resignation of U.S. Attny Gen Over Obama’s Arming of Mexican Narco Terrorists
- Obama’s Mexican Gun Running Paid For by Stimulus Money
- Newest News on Obama’s Arming of Mexican Narco Terrorists
- Obama Happily Putting Guns in the Hands of Mexican Drug Dealers, Now Ending Up in Phoenix
October 31st, 2011 at 3:35 pm
What?
Holder has FINALLY agreeded to what?
WHERE did he get THAT law degree?
Everytime I see his face….thoughts of Janet RENO and Marc RICH (Denise too) float through my mind.(Include SlickBillyClinton here too)
or KSM/NY trial.
Pathetic.
October 31st, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Hello My Friends –
It’s been far too long since I stopped by. I hope all of you are doing well. I’ll try to check back in more regularly again.
Anyway, I’m glad to hear that our Attorney General is being publicly questioned about funneling dangerous weapons into Mexico. Those weapons are certainly still being used by murderous drug cartels — people responsible for 15,000 deaths (over twice the 9/11 death toll) in the past 3 years. Those senselessly murdered include military service members, police officers, journalist, academics, and a massive number of innocent people trying to simply live their lives in peace. This is indefensible no matter what your ideological position or political affiliation.
Also, those who remember me won’t be surprised if I point out the connection between this disgrace and our country’s War on Drugs. Those gangs and those deaths exist because our government has established an unstoppable black market which, by definition, is met by those who are willing to step outside the law.
November 1st, 2011 at 4:04 am
In any other administration Holder would have been gone weeks ago
When is this Twilight Zone episode of a presidency seems like it’s never gonna end
November 1st, 2011 at 6:11 am
Hey Rhay !
Wassup ?
Made my day man.
November 1st, 2011 at 6:36 am
Rhay!
I thought you left for good. The voice of reason is back everybody!
WB.
November 1st, 2011 at 7:00 am
Hey Mick, not much man, just been doing my thing. Everything good with you?
What’s up Crash, good to see ya.
November 1st, 2011 at 8:40 am
Somethings not right about this whole thing, cant put my finger on it exactly.
Its just too stupid at face value to be true.
You engage in a sting operation where you sell guns to dealers and traffickers and lose track of the guns until they show up at other busts ?
Bush ran the same operation but the buyers were arrested on the spot.
Who lets the guns go galavanting off into the horizon with no ability to track them or see what places/persons of interest they show up around ?
Was there an agent following the shipment, each gun, batchs ?
Did they have GPS chips embedded in them ?
Sort of looks and smells like a give away, hush money maybe, or trade for snitch/info and the buyers broke some rules and sold them to the wrong guys…
I dont know, whoevers running this fiasco and whatever the details are/were I’m willing to bet a dead agent wasnt supposed to be part of the bargain.
ATF/NARCO squads etc have been known to trade goods for info on shipments and maybe these guns were bargained to only certain owners and those owners went rogue and sold em off to anybody.
The only freaking way that these guns were let lose was because they were supposed to expose another layer of onion.
Someone made the wrong deal with the wrong person for ulterior motives.
I have little doubt.
Soon enough we’ll find out who on Holders team made such a flimsy deal more than likely on his own, and the dept is just trying to cover it up or whitewash it with confusion.
Did ja see the pages in this report where every single word had been redacted/blacked out ?
Eric and his boys got hustled, burned, outsmarted, and some poor dude got caught by the lose ends.
You dont just hand these weapons over to the Cartel unless something really big was in it for you…or so they thought.
They got played
November 1st, 2011 at 9:03 am
Yeah Mick, obviously they expected this to lead to something big. It sort of reminds me of Ollie North during Iran-Contra — looking the other way on coke shipments in the service of some larger goal. Doesn’t make it right though. Holder’s got blood on his hands for sure, whether he meant for that to happen or not.
November 1st, 2011 at 9:56 am
Payoff, in exchange for info, hand someone over, drop the right name.
Holder gets a notch in his belt and the chupas got their guns.
But still, if they wanted to cover that then why allow the guns to be linked back to you ?
If I made a deal to a snitch in exchange for a bust the guns I paid him with certainly wouldnt be linked to the ATF or anyone.
ID’ing those guns would be impossible if it were me. Complete sections would of replaced any section with numbers
I dont know, until we know exactly what the tracking method was supposed to be I’m just talkin out my ass.
I doubt they’ll want to give out all their secret ops to public ears, if the recipe gets out they lose the upper hand.
All I know is someone was really stupid not suspecting for one second the guns would surface elsewhere, or they got it in good for Holder and pulled off a pretty dynamic set-up.
November 1st, 2011 at 11:32 am
Now Assistant AG Lanny Breuer tells Senate Judiciary subcommitee that:
THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS TO BLAME !
November 1st, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Yeah, we saw that comin.
It doesnt seem like theres anyone intelligent enough behind this for a change to the second to be the intention.
As long as these agencies have existed theres been gaps in intel sharing and exchange. Hell, thats what gave us 911, one hand not knowing what the others doing.
Which is astounding seeing as how these days they’re both wrapped around the same dickhead.