The forces against Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. seem to be building some momentum — at least in the Republican ranks.
The latest: Freshman Rep. Raúl Labrador(R-Idaho)on Thursday demanded that Holder resign, claiming he was lying when he testified before Congress about when he learned of ATF’s troubled Operation Fast and Furious.
“When Attorney General Eric Holder testified before Congress on May 3, his statements were either untrue or deliberately misleading,” Labrador said. “It is clear from recently-released documents that Mr. Holder did in fact know about Fast and Furious well before he publicly admitted.
“Attorney General Holder has a troubling pattern of failed cooperation with the legislative branch. Because of this intentional stonewalling and his misleading testimony, I now call for Mr. Holder’s resignation.”
On Tuesday, Rep. Lamar Smith, head of the House Judiciary, asked the White House to assign an independent counsel to determine the truthfulness of Holder’s Congressional testimony on the matter.
On Wednesday, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Az) told The Daily Caller that Obama administration officials responsible for Operation Fast and Furious might be accessories to murder.
Holder told a Congressional committee in May that he hadn’t heard of the controversial operation until a few weeks before. But publicly released documents show that he was provided written briefings on the matter as far back as July 2010.
However, the Justice Department says that Holder, when answering questions, meant that he was not aware of the questionable tactics, which involved encouraging gun dealers to sell to straw purchasers, with the hopes of tracing the weapons to the Mexican cartels.
