Ramirez and Issa weigh in on Eric Holder and Project #Gunrunner

Tonight on Fox News' Special Report, Rep. Darrell Issa -- Chairman of the House Oversight Committee -- pilloried the Justice Department and expressed extreme skepticism that Attorney General Holder was unaware of Operation "Fast and Furious".

Unbeknown to the ATF, the DEA and FBI were using paid informants as middlemen. Which means U.S. dollars were used to buy weapons... [there was almost no] physical tracking of weapons... one shipment was observed going into Mexico and then just disappeared.

[This operation] goes to the highest levels of Justice... we want answers. The ATF was kept in the dark by Justice.

We have our doubts [that Holder didn't know]... we will continue the investigation and follow it wherever it goes.

As Issa wrote earlier this week about ATF director Melson's secret testimony:

If his account is accurate, then ATF leadership appears to have been effectively muzzled while the DOJ sent over false denials and buried its head in the sand. That approach distorted the truth and obstructed our investigation.

Which means that the acting ATF director believes: Holder's DOJ lied to Congress and obstructed its investigation. Both of which, let me check -- why... yes, are crimes.

The Arizona Daily Star recently reported that the family of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry -- killed by one of Holder's Gunrunner weapons -- is considering a lawsuit. Let me be the first to suggest that one of the civil targets is Eric Holder.