Holder: That Fast & Furious operation was badly executed, huh?

“It was a bad attempt at trying to deal with a very pernicious problem, where guns are flowing from the United States to Mexico,” Holder divulged. “In its conception, in its execution, it was fundamentally flawed,” Holder said about Fast and Furious. “I understand what they were trying to do, but they were doing it extremely, extremely poorly… it’s bad law enforcement.”

“That was a fundamentally flawed program,” Holder continued. “I can agree with some of my harshest critics, there are legitimate issues that need to be explored with regard to the way “Operation Fast and Furious” was carried out. But one thing that has to be understood is once this was brought to my attention, I stopped it. I stopped it. In spite of what other Attorneys General might have done with briefings they got. When this Attorney General heard about these practices I said to them, ‘men and women of the United States Department of Justice, to the field, this ain’t going to be the way we conduct business. Stop it!”