FAST and FURIOUS:

New information is revealed by CBS News indicating that Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath with regards to his knowledge of the BATFE operation called “Fast and Furious.” From The Weekly Standard:

12:55 PM, Oct 4, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

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The Fast and Furious scandal, in which the Justice Department knowingly gave Mexican criminal gangs thousands of guns, just keeps escalating. The latest development centers around whether or not Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about having knowledge of the controversial gun trafficking operation. Recently released documents say Holder was briefed about the operation long before he told the Judiciary Committee he was first aware of what was going on. (Holder now claims he misunderstood the question was being asked.)

What’s more, CBS News investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson — who’s been covering the scandal from the beginning — says in an interview on the Laura Ingraham Show today that the White House and Justice Department have taken to screaming at her for reporting on the story. You can listen to the full interview below, but here are the key excerpts from Attkisson:

In between the yelling that I received from Justice Department yesterday, the spokeswoman–who would not put anything in writing, I was asking for her explanation so there would be clarity and no confusion later over what had been said, she wouldn’t put anything in writing–so we talked on the phone and she said things such as the question Holder answered was different than the one he asked. But he phrased it, he said very explicitly, ‘I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.’

Ingraham: So they were literally screaming at you?
Attkisson: Yes. Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. [Laura: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?] Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House.”

Finally, Attkisson notes that the White House is claiming that a thorough investigation of the scandal is unwarranted:

[The White House and Justice Department] will tell you that I’m the only reporter–as they told me–that is not reasonable. They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I’m the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I’m unfair and biased by pursuing it.

So CBS News journalist Sharyl Attkisson begins to ask questions and investigates possible links between AG Eric Holder and operation Fast & Furious, posing the obvious query: what did Holder know, and when did he know it?

Read the July 5th, 2010 memo involving AG Holder here.

Read the “tricky case” e-mail involving AG Holder here.

Read the memo to AG Holder from Assistant AG Lanny Breuer here.

Here’s what Attorney General Eric Holder said last May, under oath:

The scandal as originally exposed and covered by CBS’s Sharyl Attkisson is here.

However, more pointedly:

ATF Fast and Furious: New documents show Attorney General Eric Holder was briefed in July 2010

By Sharyl Attkisson

WASHINGTON – 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.

I submit:

• Eric Holder is a liar;
• Barack Hussein Obama is a liar
• The bulk of his administration is predicated upon shadows, lies and death

And the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry?

Our administration tries to shunt his death — by guns purposely untracked by BATFE — completely aside.

BZ

P.S.
My friend, Texas Fred, has kept track of this thread through the year. Check his website for past archives.

Mr Obama operates in the clear, transparently, with ethics in mind? Absolutely not. He is nothing more than a Socialist Outlaw: