Gunrunner: Eric Holder agrees to give up more Fast and Furious documents

  Facing a possible Contempt of Congress vote Eric Holder appears to be flinching, if only a little bit. Today Eric Holder announced he would provide Darrell Issa with some of the documents he has been seeking for a year and a half. He claims these documents will explain how he provided false testimony to the Congress before changing his story.

“[T]he department is prepared to provide documents that, while outside the scope  of the committee’s interest in the inappropriate tactics used in Fast and  Furious, are responsive to how the department’s understanding of the facts  regarding that matter evolved throughout 2011 and how the department came to  withdraw its February 4, 2011 letter to Senator Grassley,” Holder wrote to Issa  on Thursday. “The department is willing to accommodate the committee’s interest  in those materials

  Reading those words by Eric Holder you would think he is going above and beyond what he is required, but thankfully this doesn’t appear to be enough for Darrell Issa:

The DOJ letter only seems to indicate a willingness to offer a selective telling  rather than full disclosure of key events that occurred after February 4, 2011,” Watkins wrote in an email. “We expect the Justice Department to quickly provide  necessary details about how it is prepared to alter its opposition to producing  subpoenaed documents

  For the last 18 months Eric Holder has been cherry picking the documents he released, and even those documents were heavily redacted, and now it appears as if he is doing more of the same. To paraphrase Barack Obama when he was speaking of the BP oil spill, Darrell Issa has his boot on the neck of Eric Holder and he mustn’t relent until he has ALL the documents he has requested because then, and only then, will he know whose ass to kick.