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Impeach Holder and DOJ Officials for DOJ Lies
PJ Media ^ | December 10, 2011 | J. Christian Adams

Posted on 12/10/2011 12:01:44 PM PST by jazusamo

This week in front of the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder doubled down, then tripled down, on Fast and Furious. He dug in, fought back, and pretended nothing is systemically wrong inside his Justice Department. Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) even accused him of potential contempt of Congress, a crime (2 U.S.C. 192).

Holder’s testimony was not merely shameful, it was a maturing manifestation of a lawlessness which I first warned about in July of 2010 when I testified about the New Black Panther dismissal. Small acts of lawlessness have given way to larger ones.

In the radio and television interviews I do, I am often asked, “What can be done about Holder and the DOJ?” Until now, I have responded that becoming educated about the DOJ and urging your congressman to action is best. But circumstances have changed, and you as an American can do something about it.

Holder’s brazen display before the House Judiciary Committee signals that the Justice Department is in deep trouble. It is time for Eric Holder to go. It is time for his Chief of Staff Gary Grindler to go. It is time for Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer to go.

The list shouldn’t end there. The swirl of corruption also taints Assistant Attorney General Ron Weich, who managed the production of the false letter to Congress about Fast and Furious. It also taints Tracy Schmaler, the truth-challenged head of the Office of Public Affairs who disassembles the truth to the public on so many issues I have lost count.

The Constitution provides two avenues for just this circumstance. One is found in the First Amendment and the other in Article II, Section 4.

This coming Tuesday, Eric Holder is coming to Austin, Texas, to make a major announcement about voting rights. Most likely, it will involve opposing election integrity efforts like voter identification requirements in Texas and South Carolina. It will have a direct impact on the 2012 election. His appearance at the LBJ Library will be met by True the Vote, which will hold a counter-rally to which all of America is invited. It is at 4 p.m. on the grounds of the LBJ Library. Here is the flyer with more information. The First Amendment gives citizens the right to petition their government for redress of grievances. Use it.

But the Constitution provides more tools to undo the rot at DOJ. Article II, Section 4 allows executive branch officers to be impeached. This includes Holder, Breuer, and Weich.

Shakespeare could have been describing the Justice Department when he wrote in Macbeth that “there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.” Honest Americans haven’t seen this degree of dishonest defense of corruption in almost four decades. Except now, the corruption involves hundreds of murders and thousands of guns, not a burglary.

The rot at Holder’s DOJ is not confined to a few political officials. It extends to entire units. During the Bush years, the DOJ Inspector General castigated Office of Public Affairs employee John Nowacki for misleading the media that politics played no role in hiring in the DOJ. But now, Tracy Schmaler of the Holder Office of Public Affairs misleads the media daily in ways that would shame Ron Ziegler. What reprimand from the Inspector General awaits Schmaler?

The lying occurs from root to branch in this Justice Department. Shortly we’ll learn more about repeated lies under oath in the Inspector General’s investigation of the Civil Rights Division. Will there be grand jury referrals? Or more whitewash?

We also learned that former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes didn’t tell the whole truth when it came to what she said about enforcing all portions of the Motor Voter law. She told the internal ethics investigators that she would approve a lawsuit to clean up the voter rolls of dead voters if it had merit, after she told dozens of employees at Justice in my presence she wouldn’t even support investigations of the same.

And this week Attorney General Eric Holder laughably told the House Judiciary Committee the tallest of tales that politics or ideology plays no part in attorney hiring at DOJ. Lying, we heard from the attorney general, is simply “a state of mind.”

If you are so corrupt, so rotten, that you don’t recognize that hiring 113 left-wing and politically active attorneys for 113 attorney jobs at DOJ, without a single conservative or moderate, is political, then perhaps you really aren’t lying. To make Holder’s fantasy even more fantastic, this week we learn from Matthew Vadum that an ACORN affiliated group was regularly emailing Voting Section Chief Chris Herren about attorneys they wanted Justice to hire to oversee elections in 2012.

Ben Shapiro , in his book Primetime Propaganda (Broadside Books, 2011), describes how writers in Hollywood don’t even recognize their own left=wing bias. To them, they merely portray the world as they see it. To Holder, there is nothing ideological or political about lawyers who worked for ACORN or the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund and fought against voter ID. Isn’t that what everyone reasonable does?

Committees with DOJ oversight power should be past the time for caution. It is time to go on offense against DOJ, and not merely continue probing around the edges. Consider the fact that Rep. Darrell Issa’s motion to have Holder put under oath was denied. Why? What price would have been paid to do so? Did someone advise the chairman there was danger in doing so? Does someone want to keep a friendly relationship with Democrats more than they want to uphold the law?

It is time for the Judiciary Committee to adopt an offensive strategy worthy of Patton’s Third Army. Too much is at stake.

It is also time for Americans to hold elected officials, and their staff, accountable. For example, every time I am on the radio in Dallas, I sing the praises of Congressmen Louie Gohmert and John Culberson. Both have displayed the courage to uphold the Constitution in the face of executive branch lies. They don’t flinch at hearings, and some of the most important admissions by administration officials have been extracted by tough questions by this pair. When I am on the radio in Phoenix, Rep. Trent Franks earns praise. He too recognizes the corrupted rot of the DOJ and acts accordingly.

But the same cannot be said for everyone involved in investigating Eric Holder’s misdeeds, even if they wear the GOP uniform. Some still do not recognize the depths of radicalism in this administration.

They still don’t recognize that the Justice Department has been politicized with messianic zeal. Either they have not read PJ Media’s Every Single One series, or they don’t want to believe it. After all, the Justice Department is above all this, right?

I am reminded of the same story told to me by multiple former Justice Department officials. They recount the story of a senior Bush political appointee at DOJ who refused to believe that personnel is policy. This individual refused to believe that left-wing lawyers at DOJ would reach any different legal conclusions, or adopt arguments significantly different than other lawyers who harbored no partisan instincts. “The law is the law,” the appointee naively thought.

Yet we have seen the results of the rank and file’s unbounded ideological zeal in the last three years. We have seen cases to fight for child transvestites in public schools and naked advocacy for race-based hiring, all of which I discussed in my book Injustice.

Some in Washington care more about the cocktail party circuit or being respected as a “reasonable Republican” by Beltway Democrats than they do about protecting and defending the Constitution. Their focus is on ensuring their own future confirmation prospects by not ruffling any feathers on the Left. Principles be damned. At the first sign of controversy, they capitulate. In the end, of course, what they have done is to enable the radicals that populate certain parts of the Justice Department and inflict a deep scar on our constitutional fabric.

And what if Holder is drummed out of office, what then? Will he be welcomed with open arms back in Big Law? Will he return to Covington and Burling, a firm which has donated millions of dollars of value to defending Islamic terrorists at GITMO? Most likely, yes, because Democrats embrace their warriors.

Republicans, on the other hand, often flee from the fight. When Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez was under attack, he adopted a strategy suggested to him by quisling advisors – retreat and concede. Instead of counterattacking, Gonzalez fled the field, shed his uniform, and allowed his political enemies to destroy him. Instead of being embraced by Big Law upon his departure from DOJ, he wandered the wilderness, then went to Texas Tech working on campus diversity, and now teaches at the Belmont University College of Law.

Gonzalez is a good man who got bad advice to surrender in a political fight, and did so. Attorney General Eric Holder is exactly the opposite. Now is the time, both for members of Congress and citizens in the public square, to hit back hard. See you in Austin.



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1 posted on 12/10/2011 12:01:48 PM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
Holder’s testimony was not merely shameful, it was a maturing manifestation of a lawlessness which I first warned about in July of 2010 when I testified about the New Black Panther dismissal. Small acts of lawlessness have given way to larger ones.

Soon the Man of Lawlessness will be revealed !
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
2 posted on 12/10/2011 12:09:56 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: jazusamo

Impeach the racist Socialist bastard!


3 posted on 12/10/2011 12:13:36 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: jazusamo

Never mind the fact he should also be charged for murder for his gun running activities.


4 posted on 12/10/2011 12:30:17 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: jazusamo

Something is wrong with the premise that Fast and Furious was intended to rile the publilc toward more draconian anti-gun laws. There are so many ways that it simply wouldn’t accomplish that goal.

The guns were going across the border into Mexico. No one in this country would be particularly upset about deaths in the Mexican drug war. The dead border agent could not have been part of the plan.

Is it possible there was another goal? Mexican drug cartels are flush with money. Could there have been a monetary payoff perhaps? A quid-pro-quo not dissimilar to Solyndra, but which couldn’t have been a direct payment?

It is eerie to watch the Democrats on the House committe attempt to, in concert, keep the conversation revovling around gun control. Could they have been instructed to do so? By....someone higher up?

There are just too many other ways the Dems could achieve the goal of seizing our guns. Guns in the hands of illegal drug lords only inspires us to want to hang onto our guns even more, for protection.

Something smells here.


5 posted on 12/10/2011 12:36:37 PM PST by wayoverontheright
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To: jazusamo

Something is wrong with the premise that Fast and Furious was intended to rile the public toward enabling the passage of more draconian anti-gun laws. The risks just seem to outweigh the possible gains.

The guns were going across the border into Mexico. No one in this country would be particularly upset about deaths in the Mexican drug war. The dead border agent could not have been part of the plan.

Is it possible there was another goal? Mexican drug cartels are flush with money. Could there have been a monetary payoff perhaps? A quid-pro-quo not dissimilar to Solyndra, but which couldn’t have been a direct payment?

Could the cartels have agreed to perform some other operation in exchange for the guns? An operation that hasn’t occurred yet, thus the stonewalling?

Why is the Mexican government so quiet about this?

It is eerie to watch the Democrats on the House committe attempt to, in concert, keep the conversation revolving around gun control. Could they have been instructed to do so? By....someone higher up?

There are just too many other ways the Dems could achieve the goal of seizing our guns. Guns in the hands of illegal drug lords only inspires us to want to hang onto our guns even more, for protection.

Something smells here.


6 posted on 12/10/2011 12:53:02 PM PST by wayoverontheright
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks jazusamo.


7 posted on 12/10/2011 1:18:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Old Sarge
I agree that Attorney General Holder should be impeached. However, he should also be convicted. There is, unfortunately, a “minor” problem under Article I of the Constitution. While a bill of impeachment can be passed by vote of a simple majority in the House, only the Senate can convict and that requires a two-thirds vote. Obama administration loyalists in the Senate could easily prevent a two-thirds vote for impeachment there.

Strong popular demands could, perhaps, change that but I doubt it.

President Clinton was impeached by the House but not convicted by the Senate and remains one of the most popular former presidents. It was an enjoyable performance but not significantly more than that.

I may be missing something, but with little if any likelihood of conviction I fail to see much to be gained. Perhaps someone will enlighten me.

8 posted on 12/10/2011 1:31:58 PM PST by DanMiller (Dan Miller)
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To: DanMiller

Holder’s famous last words regarding the formal letter to Congress, which has been withdrawn due to “inaccuracies”. The same memo from his department, which he says he had never seen, which he references in more than 3 emails sent to the author complementing him on how it was phrased.

“Nobody and the Department of Justice has lied.”

Reminiscent of “All Cretans are liars”.

Epimenides would be proud.


9 posted on 12/10/2011 1:44:32 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Cvengr

I have been following the mess very closely and know that. What, however, does it have to do with whether 2/3 of the Senate would convict?


10 posted on 12/10/2011 1:52:36 PM PST by DanMiller (Dan Miller)
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To: WKUHilltopper

bump


11 posted on 12/10/2011 2:10:32 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: wayoverontheright
Is it possible there was another goal? Mexican drug cartels are flush with money. Could there have been a monetary payoff perhaps? A quid-pro-quo not dissimilar to Solyndra, but which couldn’t have been a direct payment?

Think 'Israel vs "occupied territories"' and view it through the lens of Agenda 21.

12 posted on 12/10/2011 3:03:30 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: DanMiller

Weakened electoral chances.


13 posted on 12/10/2011 3:05:43 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: jazusamo
“It is time for Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer to go. “

Breuer is a sniveling little CS who has been lip-locked to the corrupt side of the lib establishment's naughty parts in DC for 20+ years.

14 posted on 12/10/2011 4:52:14 PM PST by chooseascreennamepat (When every candidate is running in last place, everyone is in first place.)
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To: DanMiller
"What, however, does it have to do with whether 2/3 of the Senate would convict?"

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but Democrats ARE NOT going to convict there own, regardless.

The Law is broken. The only way Holder is going to pay for his multiple crimes is when, during the next Civil War, someone identifies him, even with a beard, shoves a knife into his rectum, shoots him in the head, and shows his body in a 7-11 freezer.

That is, apparently, the only way to dispose of power crazed tyrants. If you doubt me, ask Perjuring Bill about admitting that he lied to a Grand Jury.

15 posted on 12/10/2011 5:23:01 PM PST by jonascord (Political euthanasia would benefit the species...)
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To: jazusamo

While F&F maybe now be claimed as a gun-control device, I now think it was simply an effort to aid in drug-dealing, and that the Obama Admin and/or entire US Departments were getting a huge cut of, “the action”:

gun-stings where no top folks are arrested?

money-laundering ops with no arrests?

Sorry, but it simply sounds like our leaders were being paid to help drug barons while appearing to hinder them.

It seems that the money is just too good —all cash and no accountability— and they know the Legacy Media is so heavily invested in “Progressivism that the media will cover-up for them.

I’m pretty sure that secretly the USA might be led by drug kingpins.


16 posted on 12/10/2011 5:35:17 PM PST by gaijin
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To: jonascord
That is, apparently, the only way to dispose of power crazed tyrants. If you doubt me, ask Perjuring Bill about admitting that he lied to a Grand Jury.

One major difference between the Monica Lewinski affair and Operation Fast and Furious is that the former was something that many Americans believed should have remained a private matter--not worthy of public outrage. Nobody, of any political stripe, can really argue that Fast and Furious is a private matter between Obama and his appointees. Even many Democrats--whose minds would be unable to comprehend the notion that Obama could have deliberately planned to put guns into Mexican criminals' hands--would probably recognize that Obama's failure to go after the people responsible constitutes a gross dereliction of duty.

17 posted on 12/10/2011 9:36:05 PM PST by supercat (Renounce Covetousness.)
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To: jonascord
Please see my comment 8. There, I noted,
I agree that Attorney General Holder should be impeached. However, he should also be convicted. There is, unfortunately, a “minor” problem under Article I of the Constitution. While a bill of impeachment can be passed by vote of a simple majority in the House, only the Senate can convict and that requires a two-thirds vote. Obama administration loyalists in the Senate could easily prevent a two-thirds vote for impeachment there.

That's why I consider the debate about impeachment to be rather a waste of time. General Holder may be impeached by the House, but the chances of conviction in the Senate are, for all practical purposes, nonexistent. And, without a conviction, he can continue in office until fired by a new Republican president and be highly regarded by Democrats -- as has been the case with former President Clinton, now the reigning grand old man of the party.

18 posted on 12/11/2011 4:56:30 AM PST by DanMiller (Dan Miller)
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