Attorney General Eric Holder did not do his job of upholding the rule of law during his tenure in office, says veteran White House reporter Keith Koffler.
"There have been many ways where it seems like he's undermined the rule of law rather than promote it, which is what the attorney general was supposed to do," Koffler told Ed Berliner on "MidPoint" on
Newsmax TV Monday.
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"Starting with, for example, his surveillance of journalists, tapping the phones of the Associated Press, going after the Fox News reporters James Rosen," the editor of White House Dosier explained.
"These are basic things that should strike some fear into people about how their government is treating its citizens," he said.
"The most glaring issue is the Fast and Furious issue. This is one that he presided over where it's almost incalculable," he contends.
"He allowed all these different types of weapons to enter into Mexico," Koffler explained. "Supposedly, we were going to track them, and then we lost track of them, and then they were used by criminal gangs in Mexico and eventually one of them killed an American officer."
"How many actions like that by cabinet officials that we're not even aware of where an American law enforcement officer was killed because of the dumb idea that came out of the administration?" he asked.
"There's just many areas where he has come up short," he added.