Holder Claims Emails Using Words ‘Fast and Furious’ Don’t Refer to Operation Fast and Furious

[WestVirginiaRebel]

CNS News:

Attorney General Eric Holder claimed during congressional testimony today that internal Justice Department emails that use the phrase “Fast and Furious” do not refer to the controversial gun-walking operation Fast and Furious.

Under questioning from Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who read excerpts of the emails at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department oversight, Holder claimed that the phrase “Fast and Furious” did not refer to Fast and Furious but instead referred to another gun-walking operation known as “Wide Receiver.”

However, the emails refer to both programs -- "Fast and Furious" and the "Tucson case," from where Wide Receiver was launched -- and reveal Justice Department officials discussing how to handle media scrutiny when both operations become public.

Among three of the emails (see Jason Weinstein Email Fast, Furious.pdf), the second, dated “October 17, 2010 11:07 PM,” was sent by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein to James Trusty and it states: “Do you think we should have Lanny participate in press when Fast and Furious and Laura’s Tucson case [Wide Receiver] are unsealed? It’s a tricky case, given the number of guns that have walked, but it is a significant set of prosecutions.”

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This is not the scandal that you were looking for...

[Valin]

@WestVirginiaRebel

 

 

Townhall: Highlights of Fast and Furious Questions to Holder

 

House Oversight and Reform Channel

 

 

 

Eric Holder didn't know anything even if he did know something it was all the fault of the Bush administration.

AG Holder is in touch with his inner Bart Simpson.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rSa_IhgH4s

[pollyannaish]

Why do I expect to see these people on "Word's Dumbest...." being made fun of by Danny Bonaduce and Todd Bridges one of these days? Seriously?

 

Oy.