Attorney General Eric Holder is now officially on death watch; it is only a matter of time until he is gone. Holder as Attorney General has been an endangered species since he lied to Congress about when he first learned of Fast and Furious, the Obama program to send guns to the Mexican drug cartels supposedly in order to track them. The program, of course, was the height of stupidity, but the investigation has actually moved beyond that. That is because Holder testified to Congress that he was unaware of Fast and Furious and first learned of it just a few weeks before his testimony last May. When memoranda, letters and e-mail to Holder dated in mid 2010 surfaced, Holder claimed that he did not bother to read all of the memos, letters and e-mail that he gets. Holder's claim of non-competence, however, has now been blown to smithereens and the source of that blow is quite telling as well.
John King of CNN, a rather liberal reporter for the also ran news service, came forward with video tape from a March interview with president Obama in which Obama discusses the Fast and Furious program, says that Holder was not fully familiar with it and says that the Inspector General at the Department of Justice has been assigned to look into the matter. Obviously, if the President was aware of Fast and Furious, it is hardly believable that Holder had no knowledge of it. More important, Obama said in his interview that Holder had not been fully familiar with the program. That leaves Holder in the position of either sticking with his previous congressional testimony that he did not learn of Fast and Furious until the very end of April or early May in which case Obama was lying in March, or admitting that he really did know of the program months earlier than what he told Congress. Holder's only choice now is to resign.
Bye Bye.
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