| wfz said: I don't understand what's going on there... fill me in? |
Ok, in 2009 the DoJ led by Holder starts an operation called Fast & Furious, a gun tracking program. They sell hundreds of guns to Mexican cartels, and then promptly lost all of them. A couple hundred people are killed with these weapons including a border guard. People of course are upset, but there isn't any media coverage really. The DoJ puts out a memo saying they knew nothing about it, there is a little media outrage, not much. Holder comes out 9 months later saying the first memo was wrong, and says he knew about the operation.
Holder is called in front of a congressional committee to talk about it. He refuses to give out some of the documents, and they decide to hold him in contempt of congress.
Highlights of this whole ordeal are:
Holder playing the race card
Obama using executive privilege to cover it up
Democrats defending the use of executive priviledge
Pelosi being Pelosi
Edit: Here is a nifty video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgil5gKBwWE&feature=youtu.be
