Report: Eric Holder To Blame Congress For ‘Flawed’ Fast And Furious Operation

by Alex Alvarez | 1:17 pm, November 8th, 2011

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As the mission to determine what (and when) Attorney General Eric Holder knew about the White House’s “Fast and Furious” gun walking operation continues, Holder is prepared to denounce the entire operation and shift blame to Congress for not having adequately supported the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

According to statements prepared for this morning’s meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Holder will say that ATF agents have complained that their division “suffers from a lack of effective enforcement tools,” and that a “critical first step should be for congressional leaders to work with us to provide ATF with the resources and statutory tools it needs to be effective,” adding that the House of Representatives “actually voted to keep law enforcement in the dark in the dark when individuals purchase multiple semi-automatic rifles and shotguns in Southwest border gun shops.”

Moreover, FoxNews.com reports, Holder is prepared to denounce the entire operation as “unacceptable” and “flawed:”

In his opening remarks Tuesday, Holder is expected to say “any instance of so-called ‘gun walking’ is unacceptable,” and he will say “Fast and Furious” was “flawed” and “should never have happened.”

“Unfortunately, we will feel its effects for years to come as guns that were lost during this operation continue to show up at crimes scenes both here and in Mexico,” he will say, according to the prepared remarks. “It must never happen again.”

While Holder will apparently refer to “headline-grabbing Washington ‘gotcha’ games and cynical political point scoring,” it’s unclear if in his opening remarks he will address accusations that he may have misled Congress in May over when he first heard of “Fast and Furious.”

Holder, you’ll recall, received a subpoena in early October in an effort to determine whether and how much he and others within the Justice Department knew about the botched “gun walking” operation. He had also been the focus of research conducted by CBS News investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, who shared with the media that she had been given the runaround by Holder’s office when trying to get the Atrorney General to clarify the timeline of his knowledge regarding the operation.

h/t FoxNews.com

Eric Holder, Fast And Furious

Anonymous

Hmmm. Typical cowardly method. Blame everyone else. Well, as far as I can tell, Congress has never actually been in command of any agency and certainly not ATF. Holder needs to simply take the responsibility for his people allowing the law to be violated in the name of enforcement and then resign. Of course he won’t, being a DC coward. Then again, Issa is the same brand of cowardly poitician, so maybe they can just sit there and lie at each other for the cameras and then go out for cocktails.
van

Good lord, this SCOAMF and his administration are clueless. Jan 2013 cannot come soon enough.
Lulu

The democrats refused to impeach Bush! They won’t touch this POTUS and his disgusting administration!
http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

Holder’s claim is unquestionably true. The same flawed strategy was employed by the Bush DOJ in “Operation Wide Receiver” precisely because the enforcement “toolbox” lacks sensible means to address the quickly evolving problem.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/earlier-atf-gun-operation-wide-receiver-used-same-tactics-as-fast-and-furious/2011/10/06/gIQAuRHIRL_story.html
Spermin Cain

Senator Larry Craig was a wide reciever.
Anonymous

NOTHING is unquestionable….
http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

I concede that point… :)
Anonymous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuEwp_Xjdz4
Anonymous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuEwp_Xjdz4
Anonymous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KMqqb8SIYU
Anonymous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2eAT2sgISA
Anonymous

‘Shifting blame’ seems to be the only thing this dick-head and his dick-head boss OBAMO know how to do.

Pathetic people who will thankfully be kicked aside soon enough.
Sperm On A Liberal

He received you in his butt!
Anonymous

He really did that didn’t he? OMG, what a big fat baby; nothing but manchildren in this administration.
Stand Up Eric…be a man, take some responsibility for your obscene acts….isn’t that what the lefties are screaming for Herman to do even tho there is no evidence of wrongdoing on herman’s part – but on Eric’spart the evidence is obvious and alarming.
Cecelia

hmmm… Must be a slow day for Stewart, Colbert, SNL jokes.
Darr247

And who suggested questioning nothing?

Nothing is sacred, by dog!
Darr247

“actually voted to keep law enforcement in the dark in the dark when individuals purchase multiple semi-automatic rifles and shotguns in Southwest border gun shops.”

Yet they received that info and did nothing.

So how, exactly, would more laws, or elimination of more (constitutionally required) legislative branch and justice branch checks and balances, have helped in this case???

Admit it… the Justice department let the guns walk under Bush AND Obama so they could claim that x-number of illegal guns were being shipped from here to the mexican drug gangs, in order to convince congress to further curb 2nd amendment rights here in the USA. Because prior to this operation (“abortion” may be a better term), it was far easier to get selective-fire (i.e. automatic) weapons from about ANYwhere else than to buy strictly semi-automatic weapons in the US, smuggle them to MEX and then convert them to support automatic fire.
http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

So tell me loser leftists, NO ONE is responsible for this huh?

Hell, the gun shop owners said it was a bad idea. Some of the agents said it was a bad idea. Yet NO ONE will take responsibility for it.

I guess you NOW can get 100′s of people killed and be complicit in murder and not get fired from a job in government.

And the leftists here just continue to go blah, blah, blah, blah.
Anonymous

To border patrol and men and woman in service . In case of emergency, Throw down gun put on blaze orange vest, run toward enemy with arms flinging in air and holler shoot me shoot me . This action will keep you out of jail, It will keep your family from getting hefty fine, you will receive a free Muslim martyr burial. Eric holder and Obama will bow their heads and say another infidel gone .
Anonymous

is he a product of affirmative action , as Obama is ???????
van

Of course he is, you can tell by the stink of failure that follows him and the SCOMAF.
Anonymous

If Obama is not re-elected next year, and Republicans take complete control of the Government, then and only then will the majority of the American People, and all you SHEEP following your Pied Pipers come face-to-face with the NEW WORLD ORDER that the REPUBLICANS has been trying to foist on this country for years. Welcome to the END of DEMOCRACY as we know it!
AliveStillKickin

The head of the DOJ is on trial in Congress for his part in an Agent being MURDERED and he merits one Mediaite story (listed at the BOTTOM of an email)…..and Herman Cain gets ACCUSED by 5 sluts for sexual harassment (one had already left her job when the alleged harassment took place)…..and gets 10 or so stories here.
Mediaite is a fully-biased, left-wing, fully-blown propaganda site.
Fred

once again this administration over and over again shows its incompetence and of course the media still fawns over it like they did the last Dem admin. Bush farted and they ran a 100 articles bashing him. this dude and his croonies fup over and over and it is a one page hit then bury it
Anonymous

The last democratic president that was honorable was Harry Truman. Every Democrat president since has lied, cheated or stole from the American people. What happened to the Buck Stopes Here !