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Obama Has 'Full Confidence' In Eric Holder Ahead Of 'Fast And Furious' Hearing

Ryan J. Reilly | December 8, 2011, 1:05AM

While House Republicans gear up to grill Attorney General Eric Holder about what-he-knew-when about ATF's botched Operation Fast and Furious at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, the White House is signaling they're standing by the nation's top law enforcement officer.

"As the President has made clear, he believes Eric Holder is an excellent Attorney General who has his full confidence," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said in a statement to TPM on Wednesday.

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Topics: ATF, Brian Terry, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Bush Administration, Chuck Grassley, Darrell Issa, Dennis Burke, Fast And Furious, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Guns, Justice Department, Ken Melson, Lanny Breuer, Obama Administration, Operation Wide Receiver, Project Gunrunner

Fast And Furious

Ex U.S. Attorney Called Grassley's Staff 'Stooges For The Gun Lobby' For Fast And Furious Probe

Ryan J. Reilly | December 2, 2011, 3:48PM

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)

A former U.S. Attorney who resigned in the wake of ATF's botched operation Fast and Furious called Sen. Chuck Grassley's staff "willing stooges for the Gun Lobby" when the Senator started investigating the issue in early 2011, according to emails DOJ sent up to congressional investigators and released to news organizations, including TPM, on Friday afternoon.

"I am so personally outraged by Senator Grassley's falsehoods," former Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke wrote in an email regarding the allegation that a weapon connected to the ATF operation was found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. "It is one of the lowest acts I have ever seen in politics."

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Topics: ATF, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Chuck Grassley, Dennis Burke, Fast And Furious

Joe Arpaio

FBI Looking At Sheriff Joe's Aides For Alleged Misconduct

Ryan J. Reilly | October 6, 2010, 4:52PM

Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Add one more FBI investigation to the list of federal probes into Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.

Federal agents and the U.S. Attorney's office are probing whether top Arpaio aide Chief Deputy David Hendershott -- who has directed the day-to-day operations of the office for a number of years -- mismanaged the department, according to a letter from the U.S. Attorney obtained by TPMMuckraker.