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Fast and Furious in a Rotten Nutshell Oct 7, 2011 11:29:11 GMT -8

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Post by peterd on Oct 7, 2011 11:29:11 GMT -8

The latest in a series of revelations in the ongoing saga of the Fast and Furious scandal -- where more than 2,000 rifles were knowingly and willfully allowed to be transported untracked from the United States into Mexico -- is truly stunning.

A series of damning memos from 2010 was recently obtained by CBS News, and they indicate that Attorney General Eric Holder -- as well as several senior Justice Department officials -- were aware of the deadly program.

In one of Mr. Holder's weekly briefings in July of last year from Michael Walther, the director of the National Drug Intelligence Center, Mr. Walther had written Holder that the Phoenix-based operation was "responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug trafficking cartels."

That October, Jason Weinstein, the deputy assistant attorney general of the Criminal Division, sent a colleague a memo concerning an upcoming press conference that his boss, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer (who is a longtime friend and associate of Holder), would be attending.

www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/fast_and_furious_in_a_rotten_nutshell.html

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Fast and Furious in a Rotten Nutshell Oct 9, 2011 15:50:50 GMT -8

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Post by peterd on Oct 9, 2011 15:50:50 GMT -8

Guns From 'Fast and Furious' Reportedly Found in Home of Suspected Mexican Drug Cartel Enforcer

Read more: www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/09/guns-from-operation-fast-and-furious-found-in-home-suspected-mexican-drug/#ixzz1aKcztqcD

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Fast and Furious in a Rotten Nutshell Oct 11, 2011 6:53:35 GMT -8

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Post by peterd on Oct 11, 2011 6:53:35 GMT -8

Eric Holder, Obama’s albatross

President Obama says that he has “complete confidence” in Attorney General Eric Holder. That’s good news for Republicans. Pick almost any unnecessary, losing battle in Obama’s first term, and his hapless attorney general is at the center of it.

If not for the fact that so many of Holder’s decisions harm national security, he would be a political dream come true for the GOP – delivering up reliably disastrous controversies for the president every few months.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eric-holder-obamas-albatross/2011/10/10/gIQA5u8IaL_story.html

THE TRENCHES.
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives vaaliantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who