Attorney General Eric Holder has promised to meet with Congressional Republicans to compromise on their request for confidential Justice Department documents related to the botched Fast & Furious operation. But a June 12 Fox Nation headline misrepresented his comments to claim that Holder “threaten[ed]” a “Constitutional Crisis” during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In fact, Holder explicitly offered to work with the Senate to “try and avoid what I think is an impending constitutional crisis,” a fact made clear by the transcript Fox Nation itself posted under their inflammatory headline.

During testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Holder responded to Sen. Chuck Grassley's request for the Justice Department “to share the affidavits with Congress. Holder replied that he was ”willing to consider that as a possibility to try and avoid what I think is an impending Constitutional crisis." From the transcript posted by Fox Nation (emphasis added):

GRASSLEY: I wrote to you four months ago asking you to seek permission from the Court to share the affidavits with Congress and I have received no substantive reply, you did acknowledge my letter. Will you seek the Courts permission to release the affidavits so people can read them and decipher themselves what they mean and if there's any problems with something sensitive couldn't a judge make an independent decision removing truly sensitive information before release, and if you have any concerns, which I hope you don't have any concerns, wouldn't that address your concerns?

HOLDER: Well, that would be a truly extraordinarily act as I have done, we have done, just some preliminary research and it has not happen very frequently. We have only found a limited number of cases where we have, the Justice Department, has sought to have wire tap information made available, but I will put that on the table as something we can consider. We want to make sure that if we do share that information it does not have an impact on ongoing investigations--But as I said, I am willing to consider that as a possibility to try and avoid what I think is an impending Constitutional Crisis.

Despite posting transcript that directly debunked it, Fox Nation posted Holder's comments under a headline that read “Holder Threatens 'Constitutional Crisis.” From Fox Nation: