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<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I’m disgusted. I find it absolutely reprehensible because this is not about skin color. This is about your character. This is about your competence. This is about your ability to lead. And this is about potentially you having misled the Congress and the American people on this operation Fast and Furious,” Rep. Allen West (R-FL) told NRA News.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Why did Rep. West have such strong words for attorney general Eric Holder?</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Recently, the calls for Holder‘s resignation on Capitol Hill have increased as the investigation into the ATF’s “Fast and Furious” gunrunning probe intensifies. Perhaps overwhelmed by the growing pressure, Holder tried to explain the that “more extreme segment” of his critics were going after him because of his race.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">“This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him, both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American,” Holder said in an interview with The New York Times.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">However, many argue that race has nothing to do with the growing–and increasingly heated–criticism Holder has faced recently.</p>
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