Attkisson noted that Judge Bates labeled “the government’s arguments for ‘even more time…unconvincing,'” and outlined how conservative organization Judicial Watch has been trying to obtain the documents for two years.
Mere hours before President Obama announced Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation, Sharyl Attkisson reported on Thursday that U.S. District Court Judge John Bates ordered the Justice Department to “turn over a list of withheld Fast and Furious documents by Oct. 22 [2014]. Attorney General Eric Holder had sought a delay until the day before the midterm elections….Judicial Watch sued…[DOJ] in September of 2012 over its refusal to turn over…[the] documents.”
CBS Evening News mentioned Fast and Furious in their coverage of the Holder announcement that evening, but NBC Nightly News failed to mention the scandal (ABC’s World News didn’t cover the resignation at all). The following morning, ABC and NBC’s morning newscast continued omitting the gunrunning controversy in their coverage of the attorney general. However, correspondent Major Garrett noted the scandal in his report on CBS This Morning:
MAJOR GARRETT: …Holder made history of a different kind as well…becoming the only attorney general held in contempt by the House of Representatives. Republicans accused Holder of withholding documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious, a federal gun-tracing effort implicated in the death of border patrol agent Brian Terry.
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