Holder Doubles Down: Senior DOJ Officials Knew Nothing About Fast and Furious Tactics

It's corruption, not its. It's is an abbreviation of IT IS. (ITS means belonging to it, as in "the house and its yard.") I know, millions of people confuse it's and its, the one exception to the rule the you make the possessive of a noun by adding 's (Earth's atmosphere, Holder's corruption.) Most Americans (and Britons, for that matter) have no idea how and when to use the apostrophe - and when not to. They either stop using it altogether, or make the plural of, e.g. car by writing car's. An apostrophe usually indicates missing letter(s). In early English one would have referred to "John, his horse," but one of the beauties of English is that clumsy formations usually disappear; so now we say "John's horse."