I've held many jobs in my life

Some of them were as safety sensitive as keeping miles of natural gas line from blowing up buildings to using a shovel to find a leaking sewer line.

BUT in any of those jobs, if I had been as clueless as our US AG Eric Holder, I would have been fired many times over.

Holder says that his testimony to Congress, stating he first heard of Fast and Furious earlier this year, “was truthful and accurate… I have no recollection of knowing about Fast and Furious prior to the public controversy about it.”
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However, in the letter, Holder says Grindler “was not told of the unacceptable tactics employed in the operation in his regular monthly meetings with ATF…”

“I now understand some senior officials within the Department were aware at the time there was an operation called Fast and Furious although they were not advised of the unacceptable operational tactics being used in it,” says Holder’s letter.

BUT- it's all the Republicans fault for bringing it up anyway...
Holder blamed Congress for failing to consider whether “additional tools are needed to stem the flow of guns to Mexico” and warned “until we move beyond the current political climate..nothing is going to change.”