On Fast & Furious, Jay Carney Is A Flatout Liar

At last Friday's daily presidential presser, White House spokesman Jay Carney called the GOP investigation into Fast and Furious and the death of Brian Terry a "politically motivated, taxpayer funded, election year fishing expedition." 

That statement is pure spin and, quite frankly, a pure lie.  The investigation into Terry's death has been ongoing for over a year.  It was Eric Holder's foot dragging and the refusal to release all the Department of Justice's documents regarding the investigation that has pushed it into this year; an election year.

And, let's not forget another Carney lie.  The one that said Fast and Furious started in the Bush Administration and Holder ended it.  If that was true, Obama and Holder would be scrambling all over themselves to give the national press those documents.  After all, Obama has literally made it his career to blame Bush for almost anything.  The fact is that the Bush Justice Department did have a gun walking program and, unlike Fast and Furious, it did track 400 guns that were walked over the border.  That 2006-2007 program, called Wide Receiver, failed to bring any convictions and, as a result, it was considered to be a failure and was ended in 2007.   That was a long before Holder ever got into office and even a  longer time before Brian Terry was killed in 2010.

If anyone is "playing" politics, it is Holder and the President by asserting Executive Privilege to prevent any possible damaging facts from coming out before the election.  To me and a lot of people, the assertion of Executive Privilege, at this late hour, just screams cover-up.