FAST & FURIOUS - OBAMA'S DOJ AND THE LA RAZA AGENDA

DOJ Fast and Furious Document Dump: More Evidence Holder Lied to Congress In another "document dump" late last Friday evening, the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) released 500 pages of records, including internal email correspondence, regarding the exploding scandal known as "Fast and Furious," where the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) allowed guns to "walk" into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, leading to the death of at least one U.S. federal agent. NPR detailed one of the key finds: For the first time, the Justice Department has made public a series of sensitive messages that passed to the highest levels of the agency within hours of an ambush that killed a U.S. border patrol agent along the Southwest border in December 2010, igniting a national scandal over a gun trafficking investigation gone wrong.… The email messages show the former top federal prosecutor in Arizona, Dennis Burke, notifying an aide to Holder via email on Dec. 15, 2010 that agent Brian Terry had been wounded and died. "Tragic," responds the aide, Monty Wilkinson. "I've alerted the AG, the acting Deputy Attorney General..." Only a few minutes later, Wilkinson emailed again, saying, "Please provide any additional details as they become available to you." Burke then delivered another piece of bad news: "The guns found in the desert near the murder ... officer connect back to the investigation we were going to talk about - they were AK-47s purchased at a Phoenix gun store."

Are we supposed to believe that Wilkinson "alerted" Holder to the news of Terry's death, but did not mention the more devastating revelation shortly thereafter that the guns linked to the crime were purchased in Phoenix?! This hardly seems credible. You will recall Holder testified before the House Judiciary Committee on May 3, 2011, that he only had known about Fast and Furious for "a few weeks." However, documents released by CBS News in October 2011 show Holder was receiving weekly briefings on Fast and Furious as far back as July 5, 2010. (See the documents here.) Holder later said he did not understand the question posed to him by the committee and amended his claim, saying he may have known about the gun-running operation for "a couple of months." But that still doesn't square with the timeline suggested by the growing heap of credible evidence, which now includes a smoking gun email to Holder's Deputy Chief of Staff linking Fast and Furious to the Brian Terry murder - all the way back in December 2010.

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And yet, we still do not have an investigation of Holder's alleged perjury. Perhaps it is because he continues to get cover not only from President Obama, but from congressional Democrats as well. On Wednesday, one day before Holder testified again before the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, congressional Democrats rallied around the attorney general releasing a report that places the blame squarely on the shoulders of local ATF agents in Phoenix in an effort to shift the focus from the Obama DOJ. Senate Republican Charles Grassley, who has been helping lead the charge to investigate Fast and Furious, said the report did not "pass the laugh test." House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight Chairman Darrel Issa (R-CA) did not back down one bit from his previous threats to hold Holder and DOJ officials in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents regarding the scandal in what he suggests is a massive cover-up. Meanwhile, in his congressional testimony on Thursday before Issa's committee Holder continued to contemptuously deflect criticism and blame. While noting that, thus far, no one at the DOJ has been disciplined for the Fast and Furious scandal, Holder then used his testimony to blame the scandal on Congress for failing to pass more gun control laws. He also suggested the whole Fast and Furious mess was just a political witch hunt. As reported by The Washington Examiner: Attorney General Eric Holder attributed the difficulty preventing gun-trafficking into Mexico to weak gun controls laws, when he blamed on the U.S. House, with particular reference to the House investigators asking him about Operation Fast and Furious. "ATF's ability to stem the flow of guns from the United States into Mexico suffers from a lack of effective enforcement tools," Holder told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today. "Unfortunately, in 2011, a majority of House Members - including all members of the majority on this Committee - voted to keep law enforcement in the dark when individuals purchase multiple semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, and long guns - like AK-47s - in gun shops in four southwest-border states." Holder also suggested that the political partisanship is motivating the investigation. "I am determined to ensure that our shared concerns about these flawed law enforcement operations lead to more than worn-out Washington 'gotcha' games and cynical finger pointing," he said. This was no "flawed law enforcement operation." This was an unlawful, dangerous and deadly blunder by the Obama DOJ that has led to the death of one person, and will likely kill many more - by Holder's own admission. The attorney general must pay for this monstrous scandal with his job. A criminal investigation of his possible perjury is also warranted. As you know, Judicial Watch has commenced a full investigation into the Fast and Furious scandal, filing Freedom of Information Act requests and related lawsuits. (You can read more about our investigation here.) PERHAPS HOLDER AND OBAMA SHOULD DECIDE IF THEY WORK FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, OR THE LA RAZA NARCOmex INVADERS! Attorney General Eric Holder Disgusted by Personal Attacks at Fast and Furious Hearing By Jason Ryan | ABC OTUS News – 22 hrs ago Attorney General Eric Holder faced attacks on his character and tenure as attorney general at a congressional committee hearing on the gun program known as "Fast and Furious," which was run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Holder defended his record but the hearing yielded little information about the gun trafficking investigation. Instead, Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee attacked Holder for previous testimony, his role in the pardoning of Marc Rich at the end of the Clinton administration and his decision to open a criminal investigation into torture by CIA operatives against terrorism detainees. The House committee has been investigating the actions by ATF and Justice Department officials involving the gun trafficking case that resulted in about 2,000 guns being allowed to go to drug cartels and criminal groups in Mexico. The ATF operation took a tragic toll when two guns linked to the operation were found near slain U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry on Dec. 14, 2010. A staff memo prepared by congressional investigators working for the committee with Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, released before the hearing offered a new detail about the ATF's failure to identify two targets in its gun trafficking case. However, the issue was glossed over by committee members in their questioning. The report noted that one of the two members of a drug cartel had already been identified in a DEA wiretap log and was under investigation by the DEA and the FBI. The report noted, "DEA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had jointly opened a separate investigation specifically targeting these two cartel associates. As early as mid-January 2010, both agencies had collected a wealth of information on these associates. Yet, ATF spent the next year engaging in the reckless tactics of Fast and Furious in attempting to identify them." "During the course of this separate investigation, the FBI designated these two cartel associates as national security assets. In exchange for one individual's guilty plea to a minor count of 'Alien in Possession of a Firearm,' both became FBI informants and are now considered to be unindictable." the report said. "This means that the entire goal of Fast and Furious - to target these two individuals and bring them to justice - was a failure." Holder faced some tough questioning about why the Justice Department has turned over only 6,400 pages of documents when the Justice Department inspector general has access to an estimated 80,000 pages of documents as part of the internal review. "It appears as though we're being stonewalled, and there's something that's being hidden," said Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind. Justice Department officials have said that the inspector general's review allows the internal DOJ investigators to have access to all grand jury materials and all unredacted documents such as wiretap transcripts. "I've heard, you know, the magic word here, 'cover-up,' and I want to make clear that there is no attempt at any kind of cover-up. We have shared huge amounts of information. We will continue to share huge amounts of information," Holder said later in the hearing. Holder faced a torrent of questions about his character and his time at the Justice Department. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, R-N.Y., asked Holder, "So let me ask it this way: How many more Border Patrol agents would have had to die as a part of Operation Fast and Furious for you to take responsibility?" Holder bristled at the question telling the congresswoman, "You know, I mean, really, is that the way in which you want to be seen, you want to be known? You know, I should be held accountable for, certainly, my role in whatever I did or didn't do in connection with the supervision of Fast and Furious, but I'm attorney general of the United States and I should also be accountable and perhaps even given some credit - imagine that - given some credit for the things that this Justice Department has done under my leadership, whether it deals with national security, revitalized antitrust, revitalized civil rights enforcement effort. And so one has to balance all of these things. "I get up every day and try to do the best job that I can. I have great faith in the people who work in the department. And, you know, that kind of question, I think, is, frankly - and again, respectfully - I think that's beneath a member of Congress," Holder said. Although Issa tried to limit the scope of the hearing to only focus on Fast and Furious controversy, Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., blasted Holder for his handling of the Marc Rich pardon and for Holder's decision to reopen a criminal investigation into abuse and torture of terrorism detainees by CIA operatives and interrogators. "Given the decision to almost engage in character assassination, I'm going to respond to at least some of that." Holder said. "I'm the attorney general of the United States. OK? And when it comes to deciding what I'm going to investigate, how I'm going to investigate, I take into account a wide variety of things. The decision I made to open up those CIA matters - and I was aware that this was something that was opposed by a great many people … that investigation has run its course. We are at a point where we are about to close those investigations." Towards the end of the hearing, Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, told Holder that he should resign and said, "You either lied or you were grossly incompetent in your actions when it came to finding out about Fast and Furious and your handling of this matter." Labrador then showed the committee a series of statements Holder had made about the Marc Rich pardon, which drew the ire of a disgusted attorney general. "That was among the worst things I think I've ever seen in Congress," Holder said, "You took a whole series of statements out of context, with no context." Holder added, "The Marc Rich thing was considered in my confirmation, talked about it then. There is a whole bunch of things that I could say about what you just did, and maybe this is the way you do things, you know, in Idaho or wherever you're from. But understand something. What I've done - I'm proud of the work that I've done as attorney general of the United States. And looked at fairly- I think that I've done, you know, a pretty good job. Have I been perfect? No. Have I made mistakes? Yes. Do I treat the members of this committee with respect? I always hope that I do. And what you have just done is, if nothing else, disrespectful. And if you don't like me, that's one thing, but you should respect the fact that I hold an office that is deserving of respect. And, you know, maybe you're new to this committee. I don't know. I don't know how long you've been here. But my hope would be that, you know, we can get beyond that kind of interaction, that kind of treatment of a witness, whether it's me or somebody else, because I think in some ways what you did was fundamentally unfair, just not right."