Gunrunner: New documents released about Fast and Furious call into question Eric Holder’s original testimony

Another Friday, another document dump.

  When Eric Holder testified back in May of 2011 about Operation Fast and Furious he was asked how long ago he had learned about the deadly scandal, to which he answered, “probably over the last few weeks.” But the documents released last Friday put the truthfulness of his testimony on shaky ground–or should a say, even more shaky ground.

  We already had learned that the original letter that the “Justice” Department had sent to Senator Grassley regarding the scandal had to be withdrawn from the Congress because it contained “inaccuracies,” and we also know that Eric Holder has already changed his story once before when it comes to the issue of what he knew and when he knew it, so it comes as no surprise to me that the latest documents which were released might just prove that Eric Holder knew more about Operation Fast and Furious than he cares to admit in public.

  Here is some of what can be found in this latest document dump:

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 [sic] … officer connect back to the investigation we were going to talk about — they were AK-47s purchased at a Phoenix gun store.”

  As early as December 15, 2010–on the night Brian Terry was shot–both an aide to Eric Holder and the acting Deputy Attorney General were notified that Brain Terry was murdered and the aide replied in an email that he notified Eric Holder of the incident. So is it possible that  once it was learned the weapons which were found at the murder scene were involved in the deadly scandal that neither his aide nor the acting Deputy Attorney General thought this was information Eric Holder needed to know? I suppose it is possible, but highly unlikely, and it requires the willing suspension of disbelief to believe that not one of these people thought that this story was not important enough to notify their boss–Eric Holder–that there was a major scandal brewing within the Obama regime over Operation Fast and Furious. How can it possibly be true that the federal government was involved in a gunrunning scheme and once that scheme turned deadly nobody in the “Justice” Department thought it important enough to notify Eric Holder?

   Eric Holder’s defense has been that Operation Fast and Furious was an operation which was carried out by underlings in the “Justice” Department, or rogue agents, and that he knew nothing about it until the story appeared on the news. In other words, he is claiming that he was oblivious to what was happening within his department and his incompetence provides him with plausible deniability in the Fast and Furious scandal.

  In light of this new evidence do you  think there is still plausible deniability in this case, and do you think there might still be a chance Eric Holder wasn’t informed of Fast and Furious before he said he was? It appears to me that the reason these documents were released so close to the date which Eric Holder is set to testify in front of the Oversight Committee is because he still hopes to make scapegoats out of his aides and the Deputy Attorney General, so it you believe he still has plausible deniability please do not  forget that in March of 2011 Barack Obama stated he learned about Fast and Furious on the news and asked Eric Holder about it, and Eric Holder told the president he knew nothing about the scandal beforehand. So according to Barack Obama, Eric Holder told him that he knew nothing about the operation before Eric Holder admitted in testimony that he knew about the scandal. How could Eric Holder have told the president in March of 2011 that he knew nothing about this scandal and still be telling the truth when he told the Congress under oath that he learned about the scandal sometime in April?

 This means that either Eric Holder had to have denied knowledge of the scandal to the president before he claims he even knew about the scandal, or Barack Obama made the story up and forgot to tell Eric Holder if we are to believe that Eric Holder’s testimony was true. Either way somebody is lying. With the release of these new documents I believe that it is fairly certain that Eric Holder is lying and he knew about this scandal before he claims he did.

  Eric Holder has some explaining to do, and so does Barack Obama for that matter.