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The Administration of President Barack Obama saved the announcement that an assassination plot had been thwarted for the same day a Congressional investigation announced Attorney General Eric Holder was being subpoenaed over his lying testimony about Fast and Furious.

With investigations into U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s complicity in the Fast and Furious guns to Mexico criminality gaining steam, and public appetite for another U.S. war in another Mideast nation waning, President Barack Obama needed a big play.

What he got was a four-base error.

At a news conference last week announcing a thwarted assassination plot, Holder said the plot was the work of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is the guardian of Iran’s 32-year revolution, and the Quds force, its covert, operational arm, according to a Reuters report.

“High-up officials in those (Iranian) agencies, which is an integral part of the Iranian government, were responsible for this plot,” Holder told the news conference.

If so, they must have planned it about four hours into a booze- and cocaine-fueled night of poker, because it is one of the most convoluted, pathetically inept, unprofessional hits ever concocted. A 10-year-old semi-literate could have devised a plan with a better chance of success.

The “plot,” such as it was, came to light in early summer. Press reports say President Barack Obama was briefed on it in June. The “mastermind,” an Iranian-American used-car salesman said to have a penchant for alcohol and prostitutes and described as scatterbrained, was arrested in September. But the Obama Administration saved the announcement for the same day a Congressional investigation announced Holder was being subpoenaed over his lying testimony about Fast and Furious.

The problem for Obama and Holder is that not even their normally fawning press corps is buying the story, simply because it is so ridiculous.

Here’s how Time World’s Robert Baer described it:

According to the Department of Justice indictment, an Iranian-American used-car salesman attempted to recruit a Mexican drug cartel to carry out the hit [on the ambassador to Saudi Arabia in Washington]. Other parts of the plan included bombing the Israeli embassy in Washington, as well as the Israeli and Saudi embassies in Argentina. The Iranian was willing to pay the cartel assassins $1.5 million to murder the Saudi ambassador. But the plot came undone when the man representing himself as a cartel operative turned out to be a paid informant of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The Iranian, who confessed after his arrest, is now behind bars. The other man in the plot, a member of the Quds Force, a secretive special forces unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, remains at large.

His colleague, Tim Padgett at Time.com had this to say:

If Iranian government operatives really did try to contract a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., as the Obama Administration alleges today, then they weren’t just being diabolical. They were being fairly stupid.

And in a story on CNN.com headlined “Some analysts skeptical of alleged Iranian plot,” Reza Sayah wrote:

U.S. officials say they are certain the bizarre plot against Ambassador Adel Jubeir was real.

But some analysts say they are not. They find it unlikely that the Iranian government, or legitimate factions within, would be involved in such a tangled plot.

Sayah was being kind. Other analysts have said it absolutely can’t be true, with one tellingFox Business Channel’s Andrew Napolitano that his sources in the FBI said there’s no record of the investigation anywhere in the regular channels.

And when one considers that the Quds forces were responsible for bombing the Marine barracks in Beirut, kidnappings in Lebanon, bombings in Israel, Argentina and the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia — not to mention the 2007 execution of five American soldiers in Karbala, Iraq — it’s obvious Quds forces know how pull off successful operations.

Unable to uncover real terror plots against the United States, Holder, his Justice Department, the FBI and CIA have taken to concocting them by rounding up ignorant dupes that they can cajole, bribe and facilitate into creating wild plots, like using Mexican drug lords — who have plenty of police officers and citizens to kill in Mexico — to assassinate ambassadors, or jihadists to fly radio-controlled airplanes filled with explosives into the Pentagon.

Then Holder “conveniently” pulls the rabbit out of his hat at just the perfect time to deflect attention from the scandal that’s eating away at what little credibility he possessed after he convinced President Bill Clinton to pardon Puerto Rican FALN terrorists and billionaire financier Marc Rich.

But the tragedy in this is the way it’s ratcheted up the war talk after the Administration switched boogeymen from al-Qaida to Iran.

We are now hearing some of the same language that George W. Bush and warmongers around the globe used in the run-up to the Iraq war. Saudi Arabia calls it an act of war. Neocon hawks are calling it the last straw for Iran. There are reports that Obama has given a wink and a nod to Israel to commence bombing strategic targets in Iran as soon as feasible.

Desperate governments do desperate things. The economy is in shambles because the fiat money system is crumbling. Warfare is a vital part of a worldwide paper money system. It is the alter-ego of the Keynesian welfare state.

When the money dies, the ruling elite will inevitably turn to bloodshed as a source of economic stimulus, writes William Norman Grigg in his recent column, Slaughter as Stimulus.

The country is deeply divided and the plans of the New World Order are crumbling under a growing nationalism. But the population will unite under war propaganda and inspire new life into disguised authoritarianism. It’s one of the oldest plays in the book.