It’s the Classic Watergate Question: “What did he Know, and WHEN did he Know it?” Betcha Holder will try and Tap Dance with “Ooops! You’re right! My #2 DID tell me that Agent Terry was Shot and Killed, but he never told me about the gun coming from Fast and Furious. Guess I need to hire better Staff, huh?”
I read the emails, and the DC screwed up with their claim. Holder was informed that a BORTAC agent was killed. His underlings didn’t have info that the two WASR-10s they recovered were walked guns until much later in the day, and while one of his deputies indicates he will call to get briefed, there is no direct evidence Holder was told that Fast and Furious weapons were recovered at the scene.
That is crazy talk. You hear that one of your subordinates got murdered, why would you follow up on that? What possible relevance could it have, that you would get briefed more than once on a murder.
As an analogy, imagine that you are in charge of security for your home, and somebody gets murdered in your home with one of your guns. Would you get all crazy and keep following the story, briefing after briefing and email after email? Or would you shrug, cross your fingers and move on like a normal person.
January 30th, 2012 at 11:06 am
RACIST!
January 30th, 2012 at 11:10 am
It’s the Classic Watergate Question: “What did he Know, and WHEN did he Know it?” Betcha Holder will try and Tap Dance with “Ooops! You’re right! My #2 DID tell me that Agent Terry was Shot and Killed, but he never told me about the gun coming from Fast and Furious. Guess I need to hire better Staff, huh?”
January 30th, 2012 at 12:31 pm
I read the emails, and the DC screwed up with their claim. Holder was informed that a BORTAC agent was killed. His underlings didn’t have info that the two WASR-10s they recovered were walked guns until much later in the day, and while one of his deputies indicates he will call to get briefed, there is no direct evidence Holder was told that Fast and Furious weapons were recovered at the scene.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:22 pm
That is crazy talk. You hear that one of your subordinates got murdered, why would you follow up on that? What possible relevance could it have, that you would get briefed more than once on a murder.
As an analogy, imagine that you are in charge of security for your home, and somebody gets murdered in your home with one of your guns. Would you get all crazy and keep following the story, briefing after briefing and email after email? Or would you shrug, cross your fingers and move on like a normal person.