The Patriot Post® · Delaying Accountability for Fast and Furious

The Fast and Furious scandal may need to be renamed Slow and Obstructionist. Attorney General Eric Holder is doing his best to make sure the gun-trafficking-to-Mexico-drug-cartels fiasco isn’t resolved until after Barack Obama leaves office. Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports, “Attorney General Eric Holder is again asking a federal court to delay the transfer of disputed documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious to a House committee. In a new court filing Monday night, Justice Department lawyers asked U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson not to require Holder to turn over any of the roughly 64,000 pages of documents to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee until after her rulings can be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.” That could take months, and might even push accountability beyond 2016 for the “most transparent administration ever.” More…