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Darrell Issa Was Briefed on 'Fast and Furious' in April 2010, But Raised No Objections

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)7/09/2011 8:46:34 am PDT

re: #222 Gepetto

Fast and Furious is part of Gunrunner. are you being deliberately obtuse here?

Why do you feel the need to argue in such an unpleasant way? Do you actually think it bolsters your position at all?

I assumed Fast and Furious was part of Gunrunner. I’m still not entirely sure what Fast and Furious actually corresponds to— the purposeful non-interdiction of the guns in order to track them, the particular subset of strawman sales, or what. I assume that it’s the former, but I don’t really know. So, if it was a subset, it’d be rather easy to have knowledge of the larger program, but not of the subsidiary one.

Anyway, my point about The Blaze is I can’t actually find a quote from Holder saying that he didn’t know about Gunrunner from any other source. The actual quote is “HOLDER: I’m not sure of the exact date but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.” Yet the Blaze says he was saying he didn’t know about Gunrunner.

I don’t have any particular affection for Holder, given his hide-bound stance on the drug war, and wouldn’t care if he resigned at all. But to hold his feet to the fire for an operation of a rather conventional sort— undercover agents letting crimes pass by so that they can follow the chain— is pretty damn odd.

Not to mention that the GOP is attempting to make noise about this while denying that the straw sales themselves are a problem. A lot of the reporting on this, like on Fox, has claimed the sales were illegal. They weren’t. That’s the whole point.