Last Friday, Sharyl Attkisson of CBS watched as the White House and DOJ released a big pile of F&F documents under shadow of Friday night. (See last post.) She has now had a chance to review the documents and her news report on CBS evening News tonight shows emails that indicate Eric Holder was briefed on F&F in 2010, with at least 7 memos between July and December. This April, when asked by Darryl Issa, Holder maintained that he didn't know about F&F until February or March of 2011. Of course, DOJ is saying that Holder is a busy guy and just because he was sent memos, it doesn't mean he actually read them. Can you say weaseling or incompetence? Or is he just plain lying?
Attkisson Report on Holder Memos
In addition, Atkinson reported on emails between officials who were worrying about "guns walking" even in October of 2010. They hoped in those emails that F&F would be wrapped up by December 2010. Too bad that didn't happen. Brian Terry might still be alive. Not to mention hundreds of Mexican citizens.
CBS, Washington Times and the LA Times are the principal mainstream media outlets reporting on F&F. Most of the rest are studiously ignoring the whole scandal. I wonder if an upcoming election might be involved?
F&F summary: Forbes Magazine asked Frank Miniter to look into F&F and write what he found: Fast-and-furious-just-might-be-president-obamas-watergate
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