Attorney General Eric Holder told a congressional committee that a GAO report detailing his use of the Justice Department plane was exaggerating. But read closely what he says and you'll realize he just doesn't get it. Washington Examiner: "My staff keeps telling me to take it easy, you know, well, this is one that gets me," Holder told Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing. "There was this notion that we've taken -- I think it was described as hundreds of personal trips. That was wrong. GAO counted flights, not round trips. And we looked at it and figured out from the time period that they were looking, we took not hundreds, but 27 personal, four combined -- official and nonpersonal trips -- and none of the trips that I took or that the [FBI] director took ever had an impact on the mission capability of those airplanes." What kind of doublespeak is a defense for using taxpayer dollars to jet away on...(Read Full Post)