Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) questioned Attorney General Eric Holder on what he knew and when he knew it, regarding Operation Fast and Furious and Project GunRunner. In the video you will see Holder stutter, and stutter again, and again, and then claim he can’t hear/understand the question. Can’t wait for body language guru Tonya Reiman to analyze this one, but then it really doesn’t need analyzation. But the big news is that Issar told a CNS new reporter that he believes there is a DOJ coverup and he believes Holder knew much earlier than he testified to. See the video and Holder balk at about 1min-04 secs-in.
Eric Holder
CNS:
Issa pointed to two things he says indicates a Justice Department cover up. First, he cites a letter that Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich, head of the Justice Department’s office of legislative affairs, sent to Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 4, 2011. Issa characterizes that letter as a “lie.”
Secondly, Issa says the Justice Department made excessive and unjustifiable redactions in documents it provided to his committee.
Additionally, Issa says he does not believe Attorney General Eric Holder testified accurately in the Judiciary Committee on May 3, when he told Issa (who also serves on that committee) that he had only learned of the gun-running operation—called “Operation Fast and Furious”–a few weeks before that.
Note: at 1min-58 secs-in, you hear Issa interviewing with the CNS reporter, and you hear that Issa believes there is a coverup. See links below the video for background on this lethal government program.
Thanks to Terresa Monroe at Noisy Room via Gateway Pundit. Read some energized commentary at TexasFred.
Darrell Issa – Eric Holder: Fast and Furious DOJ Coverup (video)
Operation Fast and Furious, Project GunRunner: 2000 Firearms Sent to Mexico. Obama Knows Nothing.
Obama and the DOJ Ignores Subpoena for Operation Fast and Furious and Project GunRunner
I KNEW ABOUT THIS OPERATION FOR MORE THAN A FEW WEEKS!!!!!!!! Holder is lying, lying, lying. Who, Holder, authorized this operation?????
Indeed Holder is lying; this scandal will go all the way to the hightest parts of the nation – Obama himself before all is said and done. Holder and all involved in signing off on this need to be held accountable to the laws they have broken and the trust they have betrayed of the American People.
Let his resignation be immediate along with that of Obama and Napoletano…all three are the ones where the buck needs to stop and be held accountable across the board.
One other thing not beign covered at all, to my knowledge, is that this kind of covert operation – on the level of the Iran Contra scandal – involves the deliberate importation of arms into a hostile force of a allied nation.
That in its own right, if I understand internaitonal law and the US law, are criminal offenses in their own right.
Holder and Napoletano, along with Obama are capable of being charged this way; though the US courts would hold precident in my book.
Issa CLEARLY saw through Holder’s sh*t screen .
Thanks Trevor!