Gunrunner: Eric Holder claims that emails about Fast and Furious weren’t actually about Fast and Furious

Earlier today Eric Holder once again testified under oath in front of the House Judiciary Committee and once again the beleaguered Attorney General adjusted his story.

When news of Operation Fast and Furious first became public knowledge Eric Holder claimed this operation was conducted by a few rogue agents in the field without his knowledge, but we soon learned that Bill Newell–who was in charge of Arizona’s field division of the ATF–shared information on the deadly operation with at least three White House officials, and we also learned that emails were sent to Eric Holder’s office regarding Fast and Furious. Knowing he could no longer claim this was a rogue operation Eric Holder changed his story and stated that while his office did in fact receive these emails he hadn’t actually read any of them. But just the other day Darrell Issa informed Eric Holder that he had emails to top level officials in the Department of Injustice which discussed Fast and Furious, and these officials reported almost daily to Eric Holder.

With this new information it appears highly unlikely that it is possible for Eric Holder not to have known what was going on in regards to the deadly scandal and Darrell Issa went on the offensive stating it was time for Eric Holder to either “lead or resign.” He also called out Eric Holder for his ever evolving story:

You don’t lie to Congress, and then lie about lying to Congress and then lie about knowing you lied to Congress and then not fire the people who did all of that and have it be anything but a cover-up

Clearly Darrell Issa feels as if he has Eric Holder on the ropes and is finally making an all out push to get him to resign for he is using much stronger language than before he received these new documents. Eric Holder knows his story is falling apart and today he tried to explain how it was possible for him to have received emails on Fast and Furious and still not know about Fast and Furious when he claimed these emails were not really about Fast and Furious.

Eric Holder tried to deflect the blame by falling back on a tactic the Democrats have grown accustomed to using for nearly a decade–he tried to blame George W Bush. Eric Holder stated that the emails which referenced Fast and Furious were actually referring to a Bush era program called Operation Wide Receiver. Operation Wide Receiver was a program implemented by the Bush administration which the Obama regime tried to use as justification for Operation Fast and Furious , and while the two operations might be slightly similar this is an argument which has already been debunked here.

This is what Eric Holder tried to claim today:

That refers to Wide Receiver, not to Fast and Furious. The e-mail that you [Rep. Chaffetz] just read [between Trusty and Weinstein] – now this is important – that email referred to Wide Receiver, it did not refer to Fast and Furious. That has to be noted for the record

But, as Rep. Jason Chaffetz points out, that isn’t true because the email clearly mentions Fast and Furious AND Wide Receiver:

Do you think we should have Lanny participate in press when Fast and Furious and Laura’s Tucson case [Wide Receiver] are unsealed? It’s a tricky case, given the number of guns that have walked, but it is a significant set of prosecutions

And clearly the Department of Injustice was already looking at this trough a political prism when it discussed which of the two operations would be unveiled to the public first:

I think so, but the timing will be tricky, too. Looks like we’ll be able to unseal the Tucson case sooner than the Fast and Furious

It is clear that these emails were discussing both the Bush era Operation Wide Receiver AND the deadly Obama era Operation Fast and Furious, and it is clear that once again Eric Holder has perjured himself in front of the Congress. There is not one person who can read these emails and conclude anything other than the fact that both operations were being discussed, and every time Eric Holder opens his mouth his defense becomes even less believable than it was before.

At this point Eric Holder has become an embarrassment and yet he continues to hold on and I believe there is a reason for this–he is protecting someone. As I stated above, three people in the White House–including a member of Barack Obama’s national defense team–knew about Fast and Furious and because of this I find it highly unlikely that none of these people thought this issue should be brought to the attention of the president.

Eric Holder is trying to hold on until after the election because he doesn’t want to see Barack Obama implicated in this scandal while he is running for reelection.