probably during this election to the obama administration's dismay. jamie: tom, your background is with the ag. there are laws in place to protect against thin things like this. this is not one allegation, it's compounded by a number of different activities that the justice department is accused of doing or not doing. how strong a case is there against eric holder? >> i think the attorney general's problem is begins the day with a bit of a credibility deficit before this committee. he took a position early on that high level officials in washington, including his deputies knew nothing about the fast and furious until it was publicly revealed. what we've seen now is a drip, drip, drip of documents including new wiretap applications where the attorney general says we knew nothing but then he finds himself in a very defensive reactive posture where he's got to explain away what is in the documents. i think he would be well advised just to get the full truth, put it out there on the table and say this is what happened. we accept responsibility and