It certainly looks like U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress when he said on May 3rd of this year that “I’m not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.” The most generous accounting would limit Holder’s knowledge of the international gun scandal to no earlier than the beginning of 2011.
Not so reports CBS News.
Yet internal Justice Department documents show that at least ten months before that hearing, Holder began receiving frequent memos discussing Fast and Furious.
Specifically, memos dating from July, October, and November of 2010. Spinners at Holder’s Department of Justice are trying to cover their boss by saying he misunderstood the question about when he first heard about Fast and Furious and its criminally negligent gun-walking element.
Spare us the feigned stupidity, Mr. Attorney General. Among your many derelictions of duty, the gun-walking scandals offer the strongest rationale for your resignation. Failing that, it may be time to consider impeachment proceedings.
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