Full text of AG Holder's Statement After Contempt Vote

[AtheistCrusader]

28. Ok, but F&F didn't use tactics started under the previous admin.

Not using Mexican authorities on the other side of the border to 'catch' the guns, or even telling them that the operation was under way, is a wholly new tactic, and basically resulted in those guns actually walking away completely. Thousands of them.

They may belong in the same file folder, but they are very different programs.

What would be very interesting is if Issa voted in favor with any provisions at that time that the program would involve 'blindly' walking guns into Mexico without Mexican authorities knowing about it. A tactic that might make sense knowing that the Mexican police and military are infiltrated by the cartels. However, if you're going to do something like that, you need additional safeguards in place to ensure the guns don't actually 'walk', or if they do, they don't function. (there are some extremely entertaining tactics we used in Vietnam around this sort of problem)

Again, I think too much is being made of Holder's involvement, and I doubt bad intentions were in play, but Holder has sort of shot himself in the foot a couple times here. Submitting hundreds of blanked out pages to satisfy the subpoena, farting around, careless statements... He's not doing a very competent job of defending himself or his department, and that is sad.