Holder Continues to Lie Through ‘Fast and Furious’ Hearings

So when will the prosecutions start?

Full coverage of the hearings at Fox News.

Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) opened this morning’s hearings by providing a timeline for Fast and Furious: a timeline that briefly described the role of every law enforcement agency involved. He spoke about the debt we owe Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, and agent Terry’s family. And he announced that ATF whistleblower John Dodson was present in the room for the hearings today. (Dodson is the Phoenix agent who risked his career and his life to inform Congress about details of Fast and Furious as they were visible to him on the street.)

……Issa then went on to talk in detail of how frustrating it’s been to try to get information to date. In doing this he referenced former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, the attorney who covered up the connection between Fast and Furious and Brian Terry’s death. And he suggested that Burke “clearly didn’t do his job in a way that anyone can be proud of.” Issa then pointed to more stonewalling on the part of the DOJ, and specifically drew attention to Patrick J. Cunningham, who, when subpoenaed, invoked the 5th to keep from telling what he knew about Fast and Furious.
http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/02/02/holder-hearings-opening-salvo-congressman-issa-goes-for-the-jugular-while-democrats-attempt-smoke-screen-for-holder/

Top Department of Justice officials had extensive knowledge of and involvement in Operation Fast and Furious, claims a new report released Thursday, hours before Attorney General Eric Holder’s scheduled testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

The report released by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, top lawmakers investigating the botched gunrunning operation, claims Justice Department officials in Washington and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were involved in the coordination in the early stages of the operation.
Report released by Issa and Grassley on Fast and Furious

Republican lawmakers Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) released a new report suggesting top Department of Justice officials had extensive knowledge of and involvement in Operation Fast and Furious.

Justice headquarters “had much greater knowledge of, and involvement in, Fast and Furious than it has previously acknowledged,” the memo reads.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/02/new-report-released-by-gop-lawmakers-suggests-top-justice-officials-had/

NO SHIT.

Of course, Holder’s response is to lie and blame everyone else except himself.

So far, this dog and pony show has been nothing but Holder’s bald-faced subterfuge and Issa’s anger and frustration. If Issa has any gonads at all, he’ll tell Holder to fuck off and take the incriminating evidence all the way to a prosecution.

Related posts:

http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/the-hearings-on-holders-fast-and-furious-gunrunning-more-lies-and-dem-grandstanding-on-gun-control/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/atf-director-holder-obstructing-gunrunning-investigation/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/obama-lies-again-about-gunrunning-abc-omits-comment-from-interview/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/more-on-obamas-gunrunning-cover-up/

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