Obama DOJ and another Friday Night Fast and Furious Doc Dump
Last night saw yet again the Obama Department of Justice releasing hundreds of pages of Fast and Furious-related material just prior to next week’s scheduled hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
One thing is rather interesting about these repeated document releases from within the DOJ – how can there be so many pages of material on an operation that to this day Obama Attorney General Eric Holder maintains he knew little to nothing about? Ponder that for just a moment.
Second, this more recent assortment of in-house emails being released appear to inextricably tie Eric Holder’s second-in-command at the Department of Justice – Lanny Breuer. It seems quite unlikely that someone as high ranking as Mr. Breuer would be so involved in something as potentially dangerous as the Fast and Furious gunrunning operation without including Attorney General Eric Holder.
And what then do we make of this explanation from the DOJ maintaining Holder’s alleged ignorance of the entire matter?
Also among the documents are Justice Department emails involving A FORMER TOP AIDE TO ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER. The emails show that then-deputy chief of staff Monty Wilkinson was notified by then-U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke the day after Terry was slain that guns found at the murder scene were connected to an investigation that Burke and Wilkinson had planned to discuss. The emails did not identify the investigation, BUT IT WAS OPERATION FAST AND FURIOUS.
In a letter to the committee, the Justice Department said that Wilkinson does not recall a follow-up call with Burke and that Wilkinson does not recall discussing this aspect of the matter with the attorney general. According to the letter, THE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN ADVISED THAT BURKE HAS NO RECOLLECTION OF DISCUSSING THIS ASPECT OF THE MATTER WITH WILKINSON.
Make no mistake – those two paragraphs indicate cover up.
The question that now remains is whether or not members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be willing to push the investigation hard enough to prove that cover up – or simply let Eric Holder continue on in his role as the ultimate FIREWALL for all the deceptions that exist within the Obama administration.
