This morning our local radio station (WJR) ran a national news feed which had the announcer reporting “Republicans are set to grill the Justice Department over ‘Operation Fast & Furious.’ ” Of course my B.S. detector pinged immediately. Sheeple-ese translation: “Those Wascally Weepublicans are on another witch hunt, partisan politics as usual, nothing to see here, move along.”
 
That’s the network news’ subliminal message whenever they employ adjectives like “Republican,” or more commonly; “conservative,” “right-wing,” “far-right,” “hard-line conservative,” etc., to skew a story. So what their drone audience has been conditioned to hear is:

These are just the crazy conservatives at it again… we all know they’re nutjobs… you don’t want to listen to anything they have to say because you’d probably turn into a nutjob yourself… and then you won’t be hip and cool anymore like we superior elitists.

 
As for conservatives, when we hear those qualifiers inserted into an msm throw-away line, we usually realize: This must be an important story, I’ll do some digging and find out the truth.
 
Which is exactly why we pay attention to stories like “Fast & Furious.”
  
This debacle first gained national attention when Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in December 2010. Terry was murdered by Mexican illegals with AK-47-type weapons “supplied” through “Project Gunwalker.” More than 13 months have passed – and we still haven’t gotten to the bottom of this fiasco, primarily due to blatant obstruction by Eric Holder and his Department of Injustice. Aided and abetted by msm obfuscation.
 
Some background:
“Fast & Furious” and the Department of Perverted Justice ~ 7-9-11
This Debacle Needs Some “Fast & Furious” Attention ~ 8-12-11
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Rep. Darrell Issa and his Committee on Oversight and Government Reform have been investigating “Fast & Furious” since Terry’s murder, and today Holder was called to testify before that House committee. Prior to the the hearing, Issa issued a statement on the committee’s findings thus far. Included were the following facts:
 

• The Justice Department has delivered fewer than 8% of the 80,000 documents we know it has identified as being related to this flawed operation.
 
• It has refused to allow investigators access to numerous witnesses who participated in the operation – one witness, after being served with a subpoena, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to protection against self-incrimination rather than answer questions.
 
• Justice Department now asserts that many documents pertaining to internal discussions and decision making about its response to Operation Fast and Furious are off-limits to investigators.

Predictably, today the Attorney General merely doubled-down on his previous prevarication. From Fox News:

Attorney General Eric Holder vigorously denied a “cover-up” by the Justice Department over “Operation Fast and Furious,” telling a House panel investigating the botched gun-running program that he has nothing to hide and suggesting the probe is a “political” effort to embarrass the administration.
 
“There’s no attempt at any kind of cover-up,” Holder told lawmakers well into a hearing about whether he had been forthright in responding to requests of the House Oversight and Government Relations Committee led by Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
 
“We’re not going to be hiding behind any kind of privileges or anything,” he said.

 
Unbelievably, Holder said that he has not disciplined anyone for his role in the controversial operation. It appears that he’s trying to pin responsibility for this disaster on the ATF branch in Phoenix but gee, he hasn’t been able to determine (13 months later!) who precisely it was in that office who initiated and authorized “Project Gunwalker.” Yeah – that’s convincing!

 
Holder even had the temerity to suggest that he should be “given some credit” for positive DOJ operations. 😯
When Rep. Ana Marie Buerkle(R-NY) asked him “How many more border patrol agents would have had to die as a result of Fast and Furious for you to take responsibility [and resign]?” he had this to say(Washington Examiner):

“I should be held accountable for, certainly, my role — whatever I did or didn’t do in connection to the supervision of Operation Fast and Furious,” Holder said during the hearing today. “But, yeah, I’m Attorney General of the United States and I should be held accountable, perhaps even given some credit — imagine that, given some credit — for the things that this Department has done under my leadership.”

 
Holder’s blather totally warranted Buerkle’s later rebuke:

“The Attorney General’s testimony today was disgraceful,” she said in the statement. “His continued deflection of accountability and denial of any knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious is shameful.”

 
Pay no attention to the mainstream media. This isn’t about the right-wing wackos vs. the lofty liberals. It’s about truth vs. falsehoods, right vs. wrong, and justice vs. injustice.
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The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has lots more facts, names and dates on this whole sorry episode HERE. Including this video:
 

 
WHEN, Mr. President, will someone be held accountable???
 
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Related:
Fast and Furious showdown: Holder/Obama defend bloody culture of contempt ~ Michelle Malkin
ABC15 Investigators in Washington, DC for Attorney General testimony ~ Local reporting from ABC15 in Phoenix