{"id":9503,"date":"2011-04-30T20:40:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T00:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9503"},"modified":"2011-04-30T20:40:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T00:40:14","slug":"nra-wants-holder%e2%80%99s-resignation-over-gunrunner-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9503\/nra-wants-holder%e2%80%99s-resignation-over-gunrunner-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"NRA Wants Holder\u2019s Resignation over Gunrunner Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0411\/53994.html\" target=\"_blank\">clever response<\/a> to Attorney General Eric Holder\u2019s claim he didn\u2019t authorize an agency he oversees to sell guns to known criminals and \u201clet them walk\u201d into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe\u2019s the attorney general of the United States of America \u2014 the highest law-enforcement officer in our land,\u201d LaPierre said. \u201cWho\u2019s in charge? If he didn\u2019t know, then who\u2019s minding the store? <strong>If Holder didn\u2019t know, Holder has got to go.\u201d<\/strong> (Emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The programs at issue, Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious, are initiatives run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) that attempted to track the post-sale movement of guns used in violent crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Disastrously, at least <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/04\/20\/obama-snubs-issa-on-subpoena-for-atf-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\">one U.S. Border Patrol agent has been killed<\/a> with a gun linked to the ATF initiative.<\/p>\n<p>With all his other missteps, this could be the fiasco that ultimately removes Eric Holder from power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre has a clever response to Attorney General Eric Holder\u2019s claim he didn\u2019t authorize an agency he oversees to sell guns to known criminals and \u201clet them walk\u201d into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. \u201cHe\u2019s the attorney general of the United States of America \u2014 the highest law-enforcement officer [&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":[2613,1453,1251,498,2645,2643,2642,2641,2644],"class_list":["post-9503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-atf","tag-department-of-justice","tag-drugs","tag-eric-holder","tag-guns","tag-nra","tag-operation-fast-and-furious","tag-project-gunrunner","tag-wayne-lapierre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503","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=9503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9505,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions\/9505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}