Harking back to the good old Clinton days when we got explanations of the meaning of the word "is", Attorney General Holder testified before Congress about operation Fast and Furious. That is the DOJ program that convinced American gun stores to sell assault weapons to people fronting for the Mexican drug cartels supposedly so that DOJ could then follow these guns into Mexico. Some 2000 weapons were sold in this illegal manner at the behest of teh Department of Justice. Not a single one of these weapons was followed all the way back to the cartels, however. Fortunately, the program was halted when some on the outside discovered that the weapons being supplied by the Justice Department to the drug cartels had been used to murder a US border control agent.
Last February, the DOJ sent a letter to Iowa senator Grassley in response to his questions about Fast and Furious. That letter was "withdrawn" as "inaccurate" by DOJ last week, probably in preparation for today's testimony by Holder. Holder today nevertheless testified that DOJ never lied to Congress. When asked to explain that statement in view of the false statements in the "withdrawn" letter, Holder said that there was a difference between misleading Congress and lying to it. That's right, between misleading and lying to Congress. Amazingly, Holder is now prepared to testify that no one at DOJ lied in connection with the letter when last time he was before Congress he stated that he had never even heard of Fast and Furious until a few weeks prior to mid May. I guess that was just misleading and not lying in Holderspeak.
Eric Holder should resign. If not, Obama should fire him. If not that, Holder should be impeached. We cannot have a government that functions if the Attorney General either misleads or lies to Congress.
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