Holder aims vulgarity at critics in email about Fast and Furious

Category: Eric Holder

13 hours 41 minutes ago by Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Newly released emails show Attorney General Eric Holder saying that Justice Department prosecutors who were critical of the department's handling of the fallout of the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal could "kiss my ass."

Fast and Furious was a botched effort by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to track firearms across the Southwest border. It led to congressional investigations and turnover within the ATF and Justice Department.

The Justice Department provided the emails to the House's oversight committee. The Associated Press obtained them on Friday.

In August 2011, staff told Holder that a group of U.S. attorneys was upset that the resignation of the U.S. attorney in Arizona was announced simultaneously with the reassignment of the ATF's acting director.

Holder replied, "Some people can kiss my ass."

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