Holder Testifies on Fast and Furious

Attorney General Eric Holder pushes his name plate aside as he waits for the beginning of a hearing on the oversight of the Justice Department during a voting break before the House Judiciary Committee Dec. 8 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Holder was questioned by lawmakers about the controversial Gunwalker/Fast and Furious gun-sting operation, a Justice Department-led program, which allowed weapons to cross the border into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. One weapon was eventually used in the killing of a U.S. agent. The hearing, broadcast on C-Span, had its tensions, as committee member Congressman Sensenbrenner warned Holder that “lying to Congress is a federal felony.” The attorney general responded, “Nobody in the Justice Department has lied.

Attorney General Eric Holder pushes his name plate aside as he waits for the beginning of a hearing on the oversight of the Justice Department during a voting break before the House Judiciary Committee Dec. 8 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Holder was questioned by lawmakers about the controversial Gunwalker/Fast and Furious gun-sting operation, a Justice Department-led program, which allowed weapons to cross the border into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. One weapon was eventually used in the killing of a U.S. agent. The hearing, broadcast on C-Span, had its tensions, as committee member Congressman Sensenbrenner warned Holder that "lying to Congress is a federal felony." The attorney general responded, "Nobody in the Justice Department has lied." Alex Wong/Getty Images