In a column in the NY Post, Michael Walsh has set forth some truly amazing discoveries contained in the latest batch of documents dumped by the Justice Department with regard to Fast and Furious, the government operation to supply about 2000 assault rifles to the Mexican drug cartels purportedly so as to track them back to their ultimate destination. This crazy scheme finally came to an end after a US border guard was murdered with one of the weapons and the operation became public. In testimony before Congress, the Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that even though the murder took place in early December of 2010, he first heard of Fast and Furious only a few weeks before his testimony in May of 2011. Later he changed that to a few months before the testimony. When confronted with memoranda to him from key deputies that set forth all the details of the program much earlier than he claimed in testimony, Holder said that he had not read them. Now, in the new documents, we have email that explain that Holder was "alerted" about the killing of the border guard and the involvement of the weapons from Fast and Furious on December 15 of 2010. In other words, Holder clearly lied to Congress, a felony and an impeachable offense.
You may well say that we are making too much of an Attorney General lying to Congress. I do not think so. Holder is the nation's chief law enforcement official. If he can so easily commit a felony and have it ignored, then it is hard to imagine that the law enforcement community is in good hands.
Walsh's column is a much more complete description of all of this. It is well worth reading and can be reached by clicking on the title to this post.
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