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Posted 02/02/2012 06:52 PM ET
Scandal: In a shameful performance, the attorney general Thursday reprised his tap-dancing routine before a panel investigating the Fast and Furious gunrunning operation that got U.S. agents and Mexicans killed.
‘It’s Groundhog Day, and Brian Terry’s family and taxpayers are still waiting for Fast and Furious answers from the Justice Department,” Chairman Darrell Issa said before the hearings. “We will not wait until the next Groundhog Day to get answers for the American people.”
Rep. Issa, R-Calif., has threatened Attorney General Eric Holder with a contempt of Congress citation if he doesn’t get answers to questions on Fast and Furious, such as who authorized it and what and when Holder knew. The story constantly changes.
After Thursday’s deja vu hearing in front of Issa’s House Government Oversight Committee, we’re still waiting. The attorney general keeps insisting he didn’t authorize it, that he’s still not sure when he became aware of it, and, no, no one has been held responsible for providing weapons to Mexican drug cartels.
“There is no attempt at any kind of cover-up,” Holder said under questioning. “We have shared huge amounts of information” and continue to do so.
Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., noted that the Justice Department has released only 6,400 pages of the 93,000 pages of documents related to Fast and Furious, with the rest being held under some arcane and specious separation of powers argument.
Thursday’s hearings came almost a year to the day that Holder and the Justice Department sent a letter to Congress lying about what it knew and what it did about Fast and Furious. Holder was appearing for the third time to continue to weave his tangled web of deceit and falsehoods.
As in the movie “Groundhog Day,” it is a fable we are constantly forced to relive.
On Feb. 4, 2011, Assistant Attorney General Ron Welch, in response to the investigations by Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, of the gun “walking” program run out of ATF’s Phoenix office, wrote a letter stating that the “allegation that ATF ‘sanctioned’ or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons … is false.”
After a series of Friday document dumps exposed DOJ’s deceit, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, in another letter to Congress, wrote, “Facts have come to light during the course of this investigation that indicate the Feb. 4 letter contains inaccuracies.”
In other words, the Justice Department lied to Congress.
It lied again Thursday in the person of the attorney general who once again failed to provide the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Eric Holder and his department have lied to Congress. Scooter Libby was sentenced to prison for much less. We await Holder’s fate and hope justice will prevail.
http://news.investors.com/Article/599949/201202021852/holder-repeats-fast-and-furious-lies.htm
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