Attorney General Eric Holder -- hang tough and ignore Florida Senator Marco Rubio and the soon to-be drumbeat of other Republicans sniffing your blood that will call for your resignation. He's done nothing wrong. He has turned over thousands of documents to the political witch hunting chair of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa. He has testified countless times before the committee on the botched ATF's Mexican gun sting operation "fast and furious." The committee knows full well that the sting operation was the brainchild of former President W. Bush's Justice Department a year before Holder took office.
The program resumed in 2010 with no evidence that Holder knew all the details or the problems with the sting operation. Many of which as he testified were not disclosed to him by operatives. The program ultimately was not a DOJ operation but a local law enforcement program that should have drawn fire but that blame should not have been dumped on Holder. Yet, he has repeatedly, publicly admitted that mistakes were made, calling the ATF's tactics "unacceptable," and has accepted blame for them, calling them "inexcusable." But this was never enough. Every overture Holder made to cooperate with the GOP dominated committee was met with a torrent of more abuse, and name calling of Holder as duplicitous and engaging in a massive cover-up. The dangling implication of that is the alleged cover-up is to protect higher ups in the White House. And we know who the GOP hopes the public will connect that dot to.
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