Getting Rid of Holder

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Though born of experience, I think you overstate your strong belief when you characterize it as certainty. In a court of law it would be rightly regarded as conjecture. You can't actually be certain unless you were privy to information which unequivocally established that Holder knew in advance and approved of the contents of the letter.

Then too, there's the carefully parsed words of the letter which leave open the possibility that, though the guns did indeed get into the hands of the cartels, it wasn't part of the plan. Rather it may have been a first class screw up on the part of ATF field agents.

John

Could well be. OTOH, straw purchases of several thousand such weapons would require local discretionary spending authority in the millions. This is highly doubtful.

It took Holder 10 months to recant his deputy's assertion. This sounds a bit fishy to me. I do know that in the three agencies I worked in (DoD, Labor and Energy), nothing gets up to that level of signature without weeks or months of staff work. It just doesn't happen otherwise.