Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. — a big fan of Apple’s iPad and iPhone — rushed into the Apple Store in Bethesda Monday night in a fast and furious fashion (pardon the pun) for an appointment with Genius Store employees. - The Washington Post
Despite Denials, Sources Say Darrell Issa Was Briefed On Details Of ATF's 'Fast And Furious' - TPM
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said this week that he was “never” briefed about what was going on in Operation Fast and Furious and that ATF agents who ran an April 2010 briefing he attended “never mentioned ‘Fast and Furious’ by name.”
That contradicts contemporaneous documents prepared for that meeting as well as the claims of officials familiar with the briefing, who say Fast and Furious was, in fact, discussed in detail. Still, Issa’s office says staffers at the meeting don’t recall Fast and Furious coming up and say they weren’t given the briefing materials.
An official with knowledge of the meeting told TPM that Fast and Furious was one of “several cases that were briefed in great detail” at Issa’s April 2010 briefing. The official specifically said that the names of the operations were mentioned in the briefing, which was run by former ATF Director Ken Melson.
“Specifically with regard to this investigation, what was briefed was the number of weapons that had been purchased, the types of weapons, caliber, the amount of cash that had been spent by the traffickers, the different techniques that ATF was using to investigate and the different techniques that ATF was using to further the investigation,” the official told TPM.
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Attorney General Eric Holder: Terrorists in court “have the same rights that Charles Manson would have, any other kind of mass murderer,” the attorney general said. “It doesn’t mean that they’re going to be coddled, it doesn’t mean that they’re going to be treated with kid gloves.”
The comparison to convicted killer Manson angered Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas: “My constituents and I just have a deep-seated and profound philosophical difference with the Obama administration,”
Holder: “Let’s deal with reality,” “The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.”
Holder also said: “The possibility of catching him alive is infinitesimal. He will be killed by us or he will be killed by his own people so he can’t be captured by us.”
Attorney General Eric Holder had a testy exchange with House Republicans today over how to treat captured terrorists and/or Osama Bin Laden himself.
quotes via rawstory
