Fast and Furious: GOP Says Eric Holder is ‘Either Incompetent’ or ‘Misleading Congress’

Sharyl Attkisson at CBS is claiming elsewhere that she has been strongly attacked by the White House for her reporting. She accuses spokesman Eric Schultz of yelling and swearing at her. The claim is that she’s being unreasonable unlike all of the other reporters.

Is anybody yelling at ABC?

Will this story and video make the Evening News and GMA, or will ABC continue to be “reasonable” to the White House.

IMO, the Attorney General committing perjury on camera is an important story.

Holder replied: “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.”

Take the 5th!

Karma is catching up with Holder. It’s about time.

Sharyl Attkisson is a hero, keep up the good work Sharyl.

This scandal is as ugly as a two-faced cat.

Probably both but heavy on the Incompetent side.

By liberal standaBy liberal standards the only thing Holder has done wrong is getting caught.

Congratulations! ABC has finally discovered the Fast & Furious scandal.

Posted by: BPatMan | October 4, 2011, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

ABC started covering Fast & Furious weeks ago – it’s you who hasn’t been paying attention and presuming your know things you don’t know.

Judd, Thanks for letting me know about ABC’s in depth coverage of this scandal. Unfortunately, I can’t find any links to their previous stories on this issue. Could you direct me to some?

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Well ABC Jake Tapper, and the ABC News White House team, if CBS had reported that if Carl Rove (when he was in the White House) had screemed and cussed at them for asking questions of this high profie of story, you would be all over it like stink on s–t!

We see right though you ABC. You better roll over soon before this gets too big and you become the news for not reporting on it.

His call on Kalid Shake-me-up Mohammed already established he is incompetant. This establishes that he is also a liar.

npr sure is being “reasonable”! Just listened to their “All Things Considered” segment. eric holder’s name came up alright….umm, gallantly as npr put it, reopening a 10 year old case of a gun-control advocate’s murder in Seattle! They reported this w/ no sense of irony! Not a peep about eric holder’s malfeasances and perjury and lies about the Fast and Furious that is exploding on the national scene!

On the very day calls are going out for an independent counsel investigation of perjury and coverup charges against the Justice Department and the shady shenanigans of the AG that led to the murder of at least one US agent and the killings of countless others on both sides of the border, the National Politburo Radio is of course being its “reasonable” self on the side of the goons.

When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and–eventually–incapable of determining their own destinies. Richard Nixon

So this is what Hope and Change looks like…. What a joke yet people are still supporting this administration ………. are they all smoking crack or what? This administration makes Jimmy Carter look like the best President ever.

Sounds like if they want to really get rid of terrorist they would start with themselves.

Obama has broken EVERY campaign promise he made. He is a disgrace. He is a war monger. And egotistical maniac who has the gall to keep a Nobel peace prize after killing more people in two years than this country has killed in probably the last thirty. This country is a disgrace and a laughing stock in the eyes of the world.

RUSS IN NC –”DOJ program sells AK-47s to Mexican war lords and the result is (so far) three Americans dead and 300 Mexicans dead and who knows how many others injured and wounded.
Boring.

I want to know if Sarah Palin paid the FICA taxes for her house cleaner. Now there’s a scandal!—

But wait Russ.. first we have to tell you about how Hank JR got fired from the NFL for discussing his political opinions on fox.. then we have to tell you about how there was a rock with a racial slur on it in texas back in 83 and Perry’s family waited a month or two before they painted over it so he’s obviously too racist to be president, then we need to tell you about how some audience members booed a gay vet and republicans didn’t stop the debate to castigate them for it publically..
THEN when we are done with all that, we MIGHT spend a few minutes talking about a member of this administration lying under oath to cover up a botched government operation that got american citizens killed.. NAHH… lets go back to the HANK JR story instead.. move along nothing to see here..LOL

I’m proud of ABC and CBS for being willing to report this growing scandal that is one the same scale (or bigger because of over 100 deaths) than Watergate. Motive = gun control / 2nd Amendment. Those are not popular topics of conversation for the left (or left-center). BUT, the principal of journalistic integrity in the face of obstruction, perjury, and death was more important than protecting “The One” from investigation. I couldn’t be more proud to be an american where the press can still investigate the government and reveal the truth. Obama and Holder, you will be held accountable for what you did. The Watergate investigation took time (and it was not popular either from the right-wing point of view). Ultimately, Nixon had to resign. I bet Obama will not seek a second term because he knows that the truth is coming out.

The Chick ens are coming home to roost!

Oh yeah, it’s just a bunch of crazy right wingers out to get poor 0bama, NO IT’S NOT! This is a big deal, a lot of people died so that this Administration could try and make it look like it’s our fault for having a 2nd Amendment. If this was the Bush Admin, then ABC and the rest of the 0bama media would have jumped on this long ago and called for impeachment. They know that this is something that could not only bring down this Administration but send some big wigs to prison the rest of their sorry lives. Yes there should be a full blown investigation.

Big difference between knowing there was a program to track illegal guns into Mexico (hasn’t there always been? one would hope so), and knowing details of problems arising.

Posted by: Jim | October 4, 2011, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm

Please no logical thought or facts needed. Just attack like the rest of the morons.

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Please check the “facts” before you accuse everyone else of being morons. This wasn’t a program to “track” guns … the guns were allowed to walk. Got that? The automatic rifles were allowed to walk — NOT tracked. The ATF is not THAT incompetent, so therefore, who ordered a program to allow guns be sold to violent drug cartels. And perhaps more importantly, why?

And perhaps more importantly, why?
Posted by: Shari | October 4, 2011, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm

Both Obama and Holder have been very vocal that they support strong gun laws. There’s your reason.

Mmmm……Mmmmm……Mmmmmm…… What’s that I smell? It smells like an impeachment is cooking…

Let him swing from a Mexican gallows for all the murders he was complicit in there!

Two faced cat, Michelle at Target, Nancy Grace’s strap broke, all easy to find. Obama administration running guns to drug cartels in Mexico, had to do a search. What is wrong with this picture???
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Nancy Grace didn’t have the tailor have a look before the dancing?

Nixonian to say the least

Wasn’t Darrell Issa briefed about Operation Fast and Furious last year and didn’t he fail to express any opposition to it at the time?

Come to think of it didn’t the same Darrell Issa say government subsidies to specific companies can encourage corruption even though he sought U.S. aid for clean- energy projects in his home state? (See Sen. Landrieu Reads Darrell Issa’s Letters Begging For Taxpayer Clean Energy Loans On The Senate Floor)

He’s a blatant hypocrite with a partisan agenda.

I really don’t think he’s a good person for the Oversight Committee. He’s beholden to the US Chamber of Commerce and holds double standards on everything he investigates. He’s not objective and the American people want meaningful oversight, not more political posturing. Until he can explain why he was briefed and said nothing back then but is waving his arms and freaking out now, I think he should be replaced by someone who puts country first.

It’s really no wonder Americans don’t trust congressional republicans and view them so negatively. The GOP and its tea party and congressional members are very unpopular. See Mike Lofgren’s Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

He was an incompetent moron under Clinton and has not changed one bit. He is also a liar. As much as anything else I blame the stupid Republicans who confirmed this wretch.

Posted by: anti-Obamunist | October 4, 2011, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm

I wouldn’t classify this as ‘Nixonian’ any more than I’d classify Ted Bundy as a burgler. The fact that no one, up and down the chain of command, saw that this operation would almost certainly result in a massive number of murders is mindblowing.

Of course, I’m just a midwestern mama and small business owner who loves this country and wants it to be all that it can be.

I can’t believe that Republicans demogogue about the deficit and yet House Republican leaders have tripled the salary cap for a legal team arguing in support of DOMA from $500,000 to $1.5 million of taxpayer money.

Sheeesh, no wonder approval of congressional republicans is so low. This is a complete waste of money.
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I heard at least 200 people got killed because of that, including a US law enforcement officer.

Providing high power firearms to Mexican drug cartels – and enemy of the US and it’s citizens, is TREASON. Anyone involved should also be charged with accessory to murder.

File felony charges, and if found guilty, imprison these traitors!

Blogging is not a small business unless you’re a propaganda consultant to Obama.

Posted by: Susan | October 4, 2011, 8:54 pm 8:54 pm

Actually, there are many ways that blogging can be a small business or aid a small business. Commenting at blogs isn’t blogging though. Just an FYI. Besides that, it is irrelevant as my biz has nothing to do with social media. My question is why are right wingers so limited/clueless/shortsighted/wrong when it comes to business, politics and the way things work? They seem to know nothing about business or politics though they’re on here attempting to chat about both.

Posted by: Kimberly | October 4, 2011, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm

I’m endlessly amused that you believe you’re convincing anyone.

Holder..complicit to murder in the death of a border agent?

Abc still hiding this scandal on world news tonight no coverage

OBAMA______VS_____AMERICA

CBS’s Sharyl Attkisson revealed on Tuesday’s “Laura Ingraham Show” the extent of the rage directed at her from the Obama administration for her reporting on the “Fast and Furious” controversy: “The DOJ woman was just yelling at me. A guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me.” Attkisson also stated that “they think I’m unfair and biased by pursuing it.”

We now know why Diane Sawyer and Brian williams will not report on the Fast and Furious scandal…… Obama regime threatens the media……… drop it or else?

OBAMA_______VS______AMERICA

“either incompetent or misleading?” funny. those are the exact words i used when the dems passed the health care bill, claiming it would reduce costs and give us all better health care. oh, yeah… and if we like our plan we can keep it.

Why are we getting people like Holder and his ilk in high positions with Government? It’s just damn sad and depressing!! It seems to me this bunch is taking our government right down the tubes with their combinarion of incompetency and malfeasance.

“Parts of America are plain stupid.”

Nancy Pelosi’s district comes to mind.

“Parts of America are plain stupid.”

Nancy Pelosi’s district comes to mind.

Posted by: Stacey | October 4, 2011, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

Why is that? Oh, I see! It’s not meant as a meaningful statement, just a mindless insult. You prove my point.

The practice of “letting guns walk” to trace their sales was also used in the Bush administration, federal officials tells the AP. The ATF began what became known as Operation Wide Receiver in 2006, after receiving information about a suspicious purchase of firearms. The investigation involved letting the guns “walk,” and the investigation concluded in 2007 without any charges being filed.

Holder’s assertion that he might’ve heard about it and didn’t know what it was about is like your wife confronting you with an invitation to an orgy. Do you say, “Yeah I received it, but I didn’t know what it was”?

Give me a break. We’ve only learned about a few memos that we know he got, way back in 2010. What about all the ones sent to him we haven’t heard about?

We need to confiscate all memos and communications and bring this guy to trial for perjury, just for starters. Maybe we can make a plea deal with the idiot, in order to find out if O’Bummer orchestrated this whole thing (which is very likely).

The same guy who said killing Bin Laden was “under my direction” directed this operation, too. It’s going to come out.

Holder had plenty of time to waste going after Gibson Guitars and dropping the charges against Malik Shabaz.

Ode to Fast and Furious

“Mistakes were made”
“It’s Bushes fault”

“So what’s a life(s) snuffed…”
If…
It’s Bushes fault?

It’s not an either/or condition. He is both misleading the Congress AND incompetent. Those footsteps you hear in the background is Holder running for the nearest hideout from the law.

So we have Holder who people have a choice that he is either incompetent and or misinformed?..
#1 look at who appointed him
#2 look at who he surrounds himself with
#3 look at the cases he goes after and the ones he avoids
#4 And when did the media decide he is incompetent? Seems us uninformed Racist Tea Party type have been saying this for a couple of years now…Affirmative action is killing us…this whole administration is the definition of the PETER PRINCIPLE!!!<<<<look it up if you don't know what it is

trump just paraphrased this on fox this morning. said the administration was “either criminal or stupid” in giving over a half-million dollars to solyndra. i sense a pattern here.

Why doesn’t the word LIE appear in this article? It is obvious he lied. Scooter Libby who couldn’t remember either was labeled a liar before any facts even got out? And he couldn’t remember who released the name of Val P – which didn’t matter because the prosecutors all ready knew who did it. This is just ridiculous – ABC is pathetic -so are the rest – they simply defend the big stink BO at every opportunity to hide from the public the corruption in this administration.

Congratulations! ABC has finally discovered the Fast & Furious scandal.

Posted by: BPatMan | October 4, 2011, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

ABC started covering Fast & Furious weeks ago – it’s you who hasn’t been paying attention and presuming your know things you don’t know.

Posted by: Judd | October 4, 2011, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm

Judd… thanks for pointing out how late ABC was to the story considering this thing has been going on for many months and as you pointed out ABC started to report on it a few weeks… I guess in your mind it’s ok they ignored the story while whistle blowers were coming out about it. Once again, thanks for agreeing they are months behind on this story! JA

The only probelm

‘Either Incompetent’ or ‘Misleading Congress’
I think that “or” should be AND

For all these yellow dog dems that want to throw stones at Issa or the “tea party” or republicans in general: you are attempting to use a “red herring” argument that flies in the face of reason. It is not about them, though I’ll grant you that most are sniveling, simpering incompetent leeches having sold their souls to to crony-capitalism fascists (read the Fed and all other private central banks) that are now running our world. This is about the “top cop” lying to cover the asses of this administration after they botched an attempt to demonize the 2nd Amendment and rally the useful idiot democrats for more civilian disarmament schemes (aka “gun control” for the stupid people). Please, for heaven’s sake, hold their feet to the fire. Unfortunately, I don’t believe justice will be served. The media first began to turn a blind eye to the evils of this rogue central government when they helped cover-up the murders of 86 men, women and children on April 19, 1993. I suspect they will give a pass on this one as well because they feel that they must protect “the chosen one”. That’s the thing that bothers me most about the statists (particularly the left wing) in this country is that they subscribe to the fallacy that the “ends justify the means” regardless of what must be done, including mass murder and complicity in mass murder as we see them doing in this case. Mexican citizens have been murdered by the score as a direct result of this false flag attack on the 2nd Amendment.

Ron Paul is our last hope…

Leavenworth just called, they have a cell ready for Holder and Dinglebarry.

Holder: Liar and an accomplice to murder: arrest him and try him for murder. Investigate the leader of the regime – Obama – as well as he is most likely an accomplice to murder as well. DOJ: one of the greatest threats to American security – Homeland security? are you following this or are you still following white males?

Anyone with more than two functioning brain cells can see that “fast and furious” was an attempt by the criminal in the white house to subvert the constitution. He is on record as telling anti second amendment supporters that he has “things” in the works to bring about “sane gun control” but can’t discuss them. Here you see one of them and why they had to stay a secret. Secretly and illegally flooding Mexico with American weapons through the ATF while at the same time actually arguing for greater gun control in this country because “American weapons” are being used in Mexico for murder wouldn’t go over very well would it? It would actually make you and EVERYONE involved in that process co-conspirators in the murder of American agents and hundreds of Mexican nationals wouldn’t it? No wonder the criminal holder’s memory is so bad! THIS ALONE IS IMPEACHABLE AND TREASONOUS! The knowingly enabling of murderous drug gangs and suppling them with weapons would merit the DEATH PENALTY would it not?!

HOLDER/OBAMA LIED AND THOUSANDS DIED!

Holding my breath for national media coverage of one of the juiciest scandals in modern history, one that any true journalist would be on like white on rice. Too bad we don’t have any true journalists anymore. They used to say they reported on Republican scandals because Republicans were hypocrits. Ha. No bigger hypocrits exist than those in the media. Malfeasant, all of them.

Note to the apologists on this board claiming “Bush did it too” – Caution – the glaring differences between a successful sting operation (Wide Receiver) and an act of ‘felony stupid’ (Gun Walker) is the three-fold. Bush didn’t ship guns across the border and lose them. Nobody died. And prosecutions resulted. None of which can be said of Gunwalker. When you make such stupid equivocation, you point out exactly the problem with your own argument.