For those of you who aren't aware of the scandal, Operation Fast and Furious involved the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) encouraging gun dealers to sell multiple guns to Mexican drug cartels in hopes of tracking them. The operation backfired, and as Jason Sepers of the Washington Times reports, five illegal immigrants used AK-47s received from Operation Fast and Furious to "intentionally and forcibly assault" Border Patrol agents and killed Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
Holder claimed to not have heard about Fast and Furious until recently, but the evidence shows otherwise. Sharyl Attkinson of CBS News reports that Holder received briefings on the operation as far back as July 2010. So this means that either Holder is lying, or he's completely incompetent.
But the most recent information on the Fast and Furious Scandal really has my blood boiling.
Attkinson of CBS News showed e-mails where the ATF sold the guns to justify a new gun regulation called "Demand Letter 3." "Demand Letter 3" would require some gun shops to report the sales of multiple rifles or "long guns".
This is completely backwards logic. If you have to force something in order to justify a new regulation, that means the new regulation is clearly a bad idea. This is an attack on you, the legal gun owners of America. It's a sign that shows that the left really has the lost the gun control argument. Notice how gun control is never brought up in debates anymore.
Holder and his crew have yet to respond to this most recent revelation. Of course, Holder has a history of crooked dealings.
Michelle Malkin talks about some of them:
"Holder himself suffered selective amnesia about the relationship during his confirmation hearing. He somehow "forgot" to mention that Blagojevich had appointed him to probe corruption in Illinois casino licensing decisions. State officials had objected to Blago's crony appointment of fundraiser Christopher Kelly to the state Gaming Board. Kelly's business partner was now-convicted felon and shakedown artist Tony Rezko, Obama's former bagman and real-estate fixer.
Holder pocketed $300,000 from Blago to 'investigate' and -- surprise, surprise -- concluded that no corruption existed. (emphasis mine) They stood shoulder to shoulder at a 2004 news conference to make the announcement. But Holder failed to disclose it on his Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, which he signed five days after Blagojevich's arrest in December 2008 for putting Obama's U.S. Senate seat up for sale.
After duping a Senate majority (including 19 Senate Republicans) into approving his AG nomination despite multiple admissions of failure, neglect and sabotage of the rule of law, Holder moved up to perform more cover-ups for Obama's pals. In August 2009, Holder's DOJ announced it was dropping federal corruption charges against Richardson after a yearlong federal probe into pay-to-play allegations involving one of his large political donors and state bond deals."
Eric Holder is a crook, and at the very least deserves to be fired from his position as Attorney General.
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