{"id":26881,"date":"2011-10-07T07:21:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26881"},"modified":"2011-10-07T07:21:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:21:39","slug":"what-did-holder-know-and-when-did-he-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26881","title":{"rendered":"What did Holder know and when did he know it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In regards to the &#8220;Fast and Furious&#8221; operation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives&#8217; failed project to interdict arms trafficking to Mexico from border gun dealers, Eric Holder, the Attorney General claimed to Congressional inquisitors that he had only discovered the operation weeks before his testimony. However documents show that he may have known about F&#038;F as long ago as July, 2010 according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/oct\/4\/memo-holder-told-fast-and-furious-early-july-2010\/\">The Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A July 10, 2010, memo to Mr. Holder from Michael Walther, director of the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), specifically identifies the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives-led Fast and Furious operation, says when it began, names the federal law enforcement agencies involved, and identifies the major investigative targets.<\/p>\n<p>The memo, sent to Mr. Holder through the office of the acting deputy attorney general, also notes that the operation involved a Phoenix-based firearms-trafficking ring and says \u201cstraw purchasers\u201d were responsible for buying 1,500 firearms \u201cthat were then supplied to Mexican drug-trafficking cartels.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/10\/06\/fast-and-furious-docs-reveal-holder-was-given-multiple-detailed-accounts-of-gun-program\/#ixzz1a5sevQEW\">Daily Caller<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAttorney General Holder has failed to give Congress and the American people an honest account of what he and other senior Justice Department officials knew about gun-walking and Operation Fast and Furious,\u201d Issa said in the statement. \u201cThe lack of candor and honesty from our nation\u2019s chief law enforcement officials in this matter is deeply disturbing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Holder lied while good men died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In regards to the &#8220;Fast and Furious&#8221; operation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives&#8217; &hellip; <a title=\"What did Holder know and when did he know it?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26881\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What did Holder know and when did he know it?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}