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Holder Ignored Congressional Demands For Information About 2007-2008 "Wide Receiver" Program -- And Then Leaked It To Reporters The Day Before Key Testimony In Fast & Furious, In Order To Claim "Bush Did It First"Good catch by Matthew Boyle at the Daily Caller. Usually a leak is a dog bites man story. Of course Holder would leak to his Praetorian guard in the partisan press. But the man bites dog part of the story is that Grassley et al. actually specifically requested information about previous gun-tracking programs. (And note, Wide Receiver wasn't a gunwalker program like Fast and Furious was -- the guns had RFID tracking chips in them. But many of those chips failed.) Holder ignored Grassley's request for additional information about Wide Receiver. You know, that constitutional power he has to ignore requests for information from Congress. But then, on the eve of key Fast and Furious figure Lanny Breuer's testimony*, he decided the Timing Was Now Right, and that his friends in the press could do more with the story in his defense than Grassley would be likely to, so he leaked it to them. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department sought to manipulate reporters’ coverage of Operation Fast and Furious during the days preceding a November 1 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, new emails obtained by The Daily Caller indicate. Holder's attempt is to claim that "Bush did it," so the fact that the GOP is only asking about Holder proves this is all a partisan smear. Well, Bush didn't do it, actually, and further, the GOP was asking about the Bush era programs too. So: Holder implicitly claims he can't release documents because they're too confidential, but then decides on his own to give them to the press when he thinks it might help them? Or: Holder ignores a constitutional, lawful demand for information, but then releases information on his own initiative to bail his corrupt, Marc Rich pardon-purchasing ass out? Either way. It's hard to say why Holder refused to comply, because he doesn't offer reasons -- he just ignores the requests entirely.
People like to simplify in their heads, and I know when I first read this I kept reading, in my brain, that this occurred before Holder's testimony. I edited out the extra moving part here. Since I kept making that error, I wanted to make sure I wasn't aiding and abetting a similar error in others. Especially because my headline elides over this detail. Well, look, the headline is already long and complicated. Big Update: Via @williamamos on Twitter -- Why have the records of slain border agent Brian Terry been sealed? The case against the alleged killers of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry has disappeared from federal court records, apparently sealed by a federal judge. The case has disappeared from court records -- which I guess means a judge sealed he records. A spokesman for the US attorney's office handling the case (in San Diego) refuses comment.
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