Attorney General Eric Holder, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, criticized “inflammatory and inappropriate rhetoric” about the murder of a border patrol agent that has been linked to the Obama administration’s Fast and Furious program.
Under the program, carried out by the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, officials intentionally allowed guns to walk into Mexico, where they fell into the hands of Mexican drug lords. At least two of those guns were found at the murder scene of border patrol agent Brian Terry.
“As we work to avoid future losses and further mistakes, it is unfortunate that some used inflammatory and inappropriate rhetoric about one particular tragedy that occurred near the Southwest Border in an effort to score political points,” Holder said in his opening statement in an oversight hearing, referring to Terry’s murder.
Holder said the DOJ was “working to answer questions that the Terry family has raised, including whether and how firearms connected to Fast and Furious could end up with Mexican drug cartels.”
