Posted on 10/04/2011 12:49:49 PM PDT by montag813
by John Hill
Stand With Arizona
The walls are closing in on Eric Holder, and the Justice Department, and White House are showing the strain.
Friday evening, the usual time for under-the-radar "document dumps" that get lower press coverage, the White House released new emails which showed extensive communication between former ATF Phoenix Special Agent in Charge William Newell and White House national security team staff over 'Operation Fast and Furious'. Fast and Furious sent thousands of weapons to cartel killers, hundreds of which have been found at crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico, and an AK-47 from which murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
From the start, the Justice Department and White House has tried to limit the damage by blaming low-level ATF employees for the Operation. At a May 3 hearing, Attorney General Holder denied he knew anything about the disastrous operation prior to April 2011:
I’m not sure of the exact date but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.However numerous documents have since revealed that Holder was in fact briefed in July 2010:
New documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial Fast and Furious operation as far back as July 2010. That directly contradicts his statement to Congress…Then this morning, we heard from CBS News Investigative Reporter Sharyl Attkisson - who has done Pulitzer Prize-winning work in tearing through the web of lies - that she had been "screamed at" and "cussed at" by Justice Department and White House officials over her reporting of 'Fast and Furious'.
Highlights:
1:31 - "In between the yelling that I received from Justice Department yesterday..."
6:05 - Laura: So they were literally screaming at you? Attkisson: Yes. Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me.
Clearly they expect the kind of misplaced "loyalty" they have received from other media outlets - which have for the most part tried to buried the scandal.
All this was clearly enough for the House GOP leadership to end the hearings and futile requests for information. So this afternoon, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) formally requested a special prosecutor to investigate the Attorney General for perjury.
Allegations that senior Justice Department officials may have intentionally misled members of Congress are extremely troubling and must be addressed by an independent and objective special counsel. I urge you to appoint a special counsel who will investigate these allegations as soon as possibleThis must not just be an open-ended "request" to Obama. The House GOP must add a deadline to this request, that if not met, will result in Articles of Impeachment to be drawn against Eric Holder to remove him from office, with criminal penalties to follow.
Do not mess around with this, Republicans. You owe it to the memory of one Brian A. Terry, an American hero, cut down in his prime by criminal malfeasance at this highest levels of this Administration.
The mill of the gods . . .
We've got a narco/human slave/arms trafficking Mob Boss in the WH.
Is it true Republicans? Are we “..essentially a nation of cowards.”?
Would love to see some courage show up to instruct Holder on our national courage in the post-race era.
“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been and we — I believe continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards,” Holder told Department of Justice employees at an event Wednesday celebrating Black History Month.
I am sure that this goes to Her Thighness and to the Teleprompter-reader-in-Chief.
Liars all.
Who is more evil, Øbama or HØlder?
What is the process for selection of a Special Prosecutor, who selects the individual in charge of prosecution?
Considering that all this was done by people who do not like the Second Amendment just so they could cast a bad light upon the individual gun owners in the US, and justify even tighter gun control than what we have now and even eliminate guns altogether. With Hillary Clinton speaking up and pointing out that there are way too many guns out there ending up in the wrong hands and even the Mexican president siding with her. When in reality this scheme was initiated by crooked politicians as well as others who have a distain for individual gun ownership and just as well would like to see the American public disarmed altogether.
Our government could not have given us a better example why the Second Amendment exists in the first place. Had it not been for Iowa Senator chuck Grassley who blew the whistle on these shady and crooked dealings within our government the American public would still be kept in the dark what has been going on, and hypocrites like Hillary Clinton would continue to pound their chests exclaiming that individual gun ownership should be controlled even tighter or eliminated altogether.
If you like guns or not unfortunately we do not live in a paradise yet and until then they may be our last resort against control freaks within our government as envisioned by the founders of this country.
This is my take Saintgermaine
With the President's approval, the Attorney General is responsible for selecting Special Counsels.
If the Attorney General is somehow implicated in the matter, he may hand-off the selection to an Assistant AG -- as John Ashcroft did in the Plame Affair.
But, somehow, I don't think Smith's request is going to make it out of the White House...
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