No justice from Justice

No justice from Justice

New York Post Editorial
October 9, 2011

Two things to know about Attorney General Eric Holder: He lied to the American people -- under oath, before Congress -- and thus is unfit to investigate allegations of criminal negligence in the Justice Department.

This is why House Republicans have called for a special prosecutor to investigate Holder for apparent perjury regarding his testimony on the administration’s “Fast and Furious” gun sting -- during which the US armed Mexican drug cartels with 2,500 high-powered, military-style weapons.

We’re no fans of special prosecutors; they tend to get out of control.

But the Justice Department has spent the summer obstructing a congressional investigation into the sting, and therefore can’t be trusted to police itself.

Here’s why: On May 3, Holder was asked the simplest of questions before the House Judiciary Committee: When did you first know about Fast and Furious?

His answer: “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.”

Yet documents published last week show he began receiving weekly memos from top lieutenants about the operation at least 10 months before that, in July 2010.

Press aides claim Holder misunderstood the question, which is unlikely. But his answer contained enough weasel-words -- e.g., “not sure” and “probably” -- to provide functional deniability.

Late Friday, Holder released a letter to Congress saying he has “no recollection of knowing about Fast and Furious or of hearing its name prior to the public controversy about it.”

Normal people, however, will recognize a lie when they hear one.

This is no small matter, given that:

* Starting in 2009, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms sold 2,500 firearms to mules who smuggled them over the border to the cartels.

* The point of the exercise was to track the weapons and snare cartel leaders -- but the agency lost track of nearly all the guns.

* Those weapons were later found abandoned at 200 crime scenes in Mexico -- and near the body of a murdered US Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry.

It was all just fuel for the fuego : Mexico is locked in an infernal drug war that has claimed 40,000 lives in the past five years.

So here was the ATF’s idea: Stop the flow of guns into Mexico ... by funneling thousands of guns into Mexico.

The leaked documents show Holder knew what was up even before Terry’s murder. Yet on Thursday, President Obama spoke of his “complete confidence” in Holder, whom he said had been “very aggressive in going after gun running ... in Mexico.”

Meanwhile, Justice officials have been fighting like rabid animals to cover up the operation since the moment the story broke -- further underscoring the need for a special prosecutor.

If Holder refuses to appoint one, the president needs to order him to do so.

Whatever Obama decides, though, it remains that an American agent was murdered, probably by a Fast and Furious weapon, and the Justice Department refuses to do anything about it.

This is shameful.

No surprise that he won't do shit. This guy is the worst AG since whatsherface in the Clinton administration. Holder also has a few other things that he's left alone instead of investigating.

TexasBlue wrote:No surprise that he won't do shit. This guy is the worst AG since whatsherface in the Clinton administration. Holder also has a few other things that he's left alone instead of investigating.

You must be refering to old "whatsherface" Janet Reno of Waco/Branch
-Davidian-massacre/Elian-Gonzalez-back-to-Cuba fame.

Yeah, Holder has proven to even more miserable and more blatantly dishonest and nakedly partisan than Reno.

The naked partisan in Holder was well on display when his Justice Dept failed to prosecute the New Black Panther thugs for voter intimidation in Philly, despite overwhelmingly solid video and audio proof of this.

Oh, but there's more!

http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=holder4212011101.htm

This from the left wing Daily Beast;
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/03/21/eric-holders-troubles-mount.html

And from the Examiner;

The issue of Holder's past legal papers came up after some Republicans asked why lawyers who had previously done legal work for terror detainees now had jobs in the Justice Department, something President Barack Obama successfully avoided discussing, and something conveniently overlooked by a Justice Department now saturated with Holder colleagues whose work records show they defended terrorism suspects and 'Gitmo' detainees.

Attorney General Eric Holder didn't tell the Senate Judiciary Committee about at least six Supreme Court Amicus briefs he prepared or supported, his office acknowledged in a letter Friday, including two urging the Court to reject the Bush administration's attempt to try Jose Padilla as an enemy combatant.

For example, Attorney General Eric Holder didn't tell the Senate Judiciary Committee about at least six Supreme Court amicus briefs he prepared or supported, his office acknowledged in a letter last Friday, including two urging the Court to reject the Bush administration's attempt to try Jose Padilla as an enemy combatant.

More at: http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/eric-holder-has-history-of-deception-claim-critics

Yep! There's no question about it. Obama has surrounded himself with nothing but a bunch of far-left, radical, lying rat-bastards!