Attorney General Holder gets another chance to testify to the House Oversight Committee Thursday morning. Just in time, Representative Elijah Cummings has released a report [pdf] in which he claims to clear the White House and Department of Justice of any complicity in this matter. Of course, if they were already clear, then why is this unsolicited “report” even necessary?
He doesn’t go so far as to claim ignorance, only that,
[t]he Committee has obtained no evidence that Operation Fast and Furious was a politically-motivated operation conceived and directed by high-level Obama Administration political appointees at the Department of Justice.
Instead, Cummings settles for declaring that the administration did not conceive or direct Fast and Furious. He seems to think that justification hinges on such semantic differences.
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