Posted on 12/09/2011 9:55:43 AM PST by geraldmcg
HOLDER ON THE ROPES: Attorney General Compared to Nixon's Attorney General in Tense Fast and Furious Hearing-
A focal point around which many of the questions asked of Attorney General Eric Holder at the House Judiciary Committee hearing into Fast and Furious, had to do with a letter signed by Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich on February 4, 2011. In that letter, the DOJ insisted it did not allow guns to 'walk.'
Last week, the Justice Department withdrew that letter from the record. Committee members saw this as a very big red flag. Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) referred to it when suggesting that Congress may have to start looking at 'impeachment' proceedings.
Frequent talk Show guest Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America was in the audience at the hearing and got to witness the tension firsthand. “Any time a hearing includes references to perjury, felonious activities, impeachment, Watergate, and Joe McCarthy, it's sure to be high drama,” Pratt said. “And it was.”
At one point, Rep. Jason Chaffetz got Holder to admit that the Attorney General has not spoken with President Obama about Fast and Furious. Chaffetz followed up by asking how Obama was qualified to assert that Holder didn't authorize the operation. Holder's response was virtually incoherent and involved some reference to someone else informing the president that Holder had no knowledge of the operation.
Rep. Darrell Issa forcefully asked Holder if the Attorney General would commit to testifying in front of Issa's Oversight Committee in January. Issa also asked Holder if he would produce emails sent and received by the Attorney General after March 1st, 2011. When Holder equivocated in response to both requests, Issa threatened finding Holder in contempt of Congress.
The hearing closed with Issa comparing Holder to John Mitchell, Nixon's Attorney General who was found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice. Holder responded by comparing Issa to Joe McCarthy.
“This is getting interesting,”Pratt said. “Very interesting, in fact.”
BS.
Obama and the Senate won’t do anything. Holder is privileged.
So quit pussyfooting around and do it!
Attorney General Eric Holder is guilty of or guilty of complicity in the murder of 2 American citizens and hundreds of Mexican citizens. He is guilty of waging war by arming the moral enemies of Mexico with battlefield weapons. He is guilty of arming enemies of the United States. He is guilty of lying to Congress. He is guilty of intentionally seeking to undermine the Constitution of the United States.
AG Eric Holder is guilty of treason, in my view, reading all the above.
Impeachment should not be a question; it should already be proceeding.
Impeach and prosecute the racist Socialist bastard!
13 months and Holder is gone anyway. Best way to deal with him is to respond to a Mexican extradition order. There are others we can send as well.
This POS had better be brought to justice this time. He’s long past due to be fitted for an orange jumpsuit.
Exactly-—he should be in prison yesterday, but then, so should the CIC and most in Congress and in the Cabinet.
Exactly-—he should be in prison yesterday, but then, so should the CIC and most in Congress and in the Cabinet.
Waiting for that Howard-Cosell “Down goes Holda’!” moment...
You know, you actually have a good idea there. Obama will pardon him if he is charged and/or tried but I don’t believe Obama will be able to stop an extradition order because that would be from a federal court, or am I wrong?
But it would do wonders for American-Mexican relations because having friends in Mexico, I know for a fact they are filled with rage, livid at the revelation of the US supplying the cartels with advanced deadly weapons.
I was facing them last March when to me they accused the US of arming the cartels. And I said maybe it’s propaganda to distract from the regional failures of the Mexican authorities to prosecute the cartels. Good thing they were friends as they looked at me in disgust.
I said to them that I view myself as being on the jury on such matters, that I want to hear both sides and weigh the evidence before jumping to conclusions. They were still looking disappointed in me.
They were right all along. We armed the cartels with deadly weapons which they used to kill and maim hundreds and hundreds of innocents and also our own Border Agents.
And out Press Corps is derelict and MIA, as usual.
John Mitchell's actions as attorney general didn't get anyone killed, as such the comparison is not nearly damning enough.
Joe McCarthy was correct in his accusations of communism and he went after them with more enthusiasm than intelligence. He was vilified not for ruining the innocent but revealing the guilty. I don't think we will let Issa be vilified, nor do I think he has as much enthusiasm as Joe McCarthy.
Hmmmmm....speaking of ropes....
Nice compliment from Holder; I guess that makes him a communist!!! (as if we didn't already know). ;-)
Holder probably has protection on both sides of the aisle. Honestly, I believe the establishment GOP would love to see the guns out of the peasants’ hands too. However it’s the Dems’ part of the routine to try and take them so the Reps play their part and put up some fuss. I bet the establishment GOP secretly wishes the Dems would do a better job when it came to gun grabbing.
“Oh dear, look at what those terrible Dems did. You’d better vote us back in so we can fix things.” And then four years after that nothing would be fixed and more of your freedoms would be gone. Rinse and repeat. Wake up folks!
Holder will eventually go under the famed Obama Bus if this scandal continues to gain traction and affects Obama’s polling.
Other than that not much will happen.
Dog and pony show. Nothing will happen to them. It’s a free-for-all; anything goes in America today.
If I was Holder I wouldn’t be going on any middle European trips on any government airplanes.
In my opinion, DC political Elites who are this Regime and in the Congress are the modern day Sodom and Gomorrah and corruption personified!
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