{"id":12736,"date":"2012-01-20T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T18:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12736"},"modified":"2012-01-20T16:06:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:06:43","slug":"holder%e2%80%99s-fast-and-furious-scapegoat-fights-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12736\/holder%e2%80%99s-fast-and-furious-scapegoat-fights-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Holder\u2019s Fast and Furious Scapegoat Fights Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/01\/20\/federal-official-in-arizona-to-plead-fifth-and-not-answer-questions-on-furious\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fox News<\/em><\/a> calls \u201cthe first big break in what has been a unified front in the [Eric Holder\u2019s Justice Department\u2019s] defense of itself in the [Fast and Furious] gun-running scandal,\u201d the number two DOJ official in Arizona is claiming through his lawyer that Holder &amp; Co. are making him the fall guy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDepartment of Justice officials have reported to the Committee that my client relayed inaccurate information to the Department upon which it relied in preparing its initial response to Congress. If, as you claim, Department officials have blamed my client, they have blamed him unfairly,\u201d the letter to Issa says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/01\/20\/federal-official-in-arizona-to-plead-fifth-and-not-answer-questions-on-furious\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what Fox News calls \u201cthe first big break in what has been a unified front in the [Eric Holder\u2019s Justice Department\u2019s] defense of itself in the [Fast and Furious] gun-running scandal,\u201d the number two DOJ official in Arizona is claiming through his lawyer that Holder &amp; Co. are making him the fall guy. \u201cDepartment [&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":[846,1453,498,2847],"class_list":["post-12736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arizona","tag-department-of-justice","tag-eric-holder","tag-fast-and-furious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12736","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=12736"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12744,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12736\/revisions\/12744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}