{"id":11524,"date":"2011-10-04T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11524"},"modified":"2011-10-04T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:58:09","slug":"did-holder-lie-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11524\/did-holder-lie-to-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Holder Lie to Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It certainly looks like U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress when he said on May 3<sup>rd<\/sup> of this year that \u201cI\u2019m not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.\u201d\u00a0 The most generous accounting would limit Holder\u2019s knowledge of the international gun scandal to no earlier than the beginning of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Not so reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-31727_162-20115038-10391695.html \" target=\"_blank\"><em>CBS News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet internal Justice Department documents show that at least ten months before that hearing, Holder began receiving frequent memos discussing Fast and Furious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Specifically, memos dating from July, October, and November of <em>2010<\/em>.\u00a0 Spinners at Holder\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Spare us the feigned stupidity, Mr. Attorney General.\u00a0 Among <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2010\/11\/02\/justice-denied \" target=\"_blank\">your<\/a> many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/05\/13\/holder-admits-reading-arizonas-immigration-law-despite-slamming\/\" target=\"_blank\">derelictions<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-02-24\/obama-holder-call-1996-defense-of-marriage-act-unconstitutional.html\" target=\"_blank\">duty<\/a>, the gun-walking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54\/1074-operation-castaway-another-atf-gun-scandal-\" target=\"_blank\">scandals<\/a> offer the strongest rationale for your resignation.\u00a0 Failing that, it may be time to consider impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It certainly looks like U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress when he said on May 3rd of this year that \u201cI\u2019m not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.\u201d\u00a0 The most generous accounting would limit Holder\u2019s knowledge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2613,1453,498,2645,1304,2642],"class_list":["post-11524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-atf","tag-department-of-justice","tag-eric-holder","tag-guns","tag-mexico","tag-operation-fast-and-furious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11524"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11542,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions\/11542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}