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House committee schedules contempt vote against Holder
CBS News ^ | June 11, 2012 | Sharyl Attkisson

Posted on 06/11/2012 6:36:46 AM PDT by Raebie

(CBS News) CBS News has learned the House Oversight Committee will vote next week on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. It's the fourth time in 30 years that Congress has launched a contempt action against an executive branch member.

This time, the dispute stems from Holder failing to turn over documents subpoenaed on October 12, 2011 in the Fast and Furious "gunwalking" investigation.

The Justice Department has maintained it has cooperated fully with the congressional investigation, turning over tens of thousands of documents and having Holder testify to Congress on the topic at least eight times.

However, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says the Justice Department has refused to turn over tens of thousands of pages of documents. Those include materials created after Feb. 4, 2011, when the Justice Department wrote a letter to Congress saying no gunwalking had occurred. The Justice Department later retracted the denial.

"The Obama Administration has not asserted Executive Privilege or any other valid privilege over these materials and it is unacceptable that the Department of Justice refuses to produce them. These documents pertain to Operation Fast and Furious, the claims of whistleblowers, and why it took the Department nearly a year to retract false denials of reckless tactics," Issa wrote in an announcement of the vote to be released shortly. It will reveal the vote is scheduled for Wednesday, June 20.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2deadfeds; 300deadmexicans; atf; banglist; contempt; dea; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; holdercontempt; ice; murdergate; obama
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To: Raebie

Issa supposedly expects 31 ‘rats to be onboard, we’ll see.


101 posted on 06/11/2012 12:10:30 PM PDT by izzatzo (Just beat Obama.)
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To: Raebie
Thank you for that interesting part of Holder's biography that both he and his liberal media cohorts have since concealed in so many of his bios. But those two weeks make it only a trivial fact.

That short time (1/21/01-2/10/01) that Holder acted as a Democrat Squatter - rather than a legal appointment - did not involve him in any Bush policies.

It especially did not involve him in "Wide Receiver" - the Bush predecessor to "FnF" - which started in 2006 and ended in 2007.

102 posted on 06/11/2012 12:17:54 PM PDT by drpix
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To: izzatzo

The NRA supported 60 something Democrats for Congress. If the NRA doesn’t get them all to vote YES, the NRA will have much explaining to do!


103 posted on 06/11/2012 12:22:48 PM PDT by drpix
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To: drpix

It is totally trivial and makes me wonder why she even mentioned it. He most likely spent those last days prying the ‘w’s off of keyboards.


104 posted on 06/11/2012 12:23:56 PM PDT by Raebie (WS)
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To: Raebie

My feeling: If I buy a house and when I takes possession a tenant of the prior owner with no lease refuses to leave. If he instead squats for two weeks before I get wide of the bum, don’t tell me he was my tenant.


105 posted on 06/11/2012 12:29:32 PM PDT by drpix
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To: Raebie
CORRECTION

get wide of = get rid of

106 posted on 06/11/2012 12:31:17 PM PDT by drpix
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To: newzjunkey

No one I know pays any attention to the MSM, at least not here in this part of Texas. The left can squeal “witchhunt” all they want. I believe that just maybe some of the pubbies fear of an unfriendly media is starting to subside because they realize this. (a few of them anyway)


107 posted on 06/11/2012 12:40:34 PM PDT by Quickgun (Second Amendment. The only one you can put your hands on.)
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To: vette6387
I appreciate your reply. Obama knows it would be illegal but I can see him doing it anyway. But, your probably right. Though I still say Holder will never see the inside of a cell. They won't let it happen.

But if it ever does, it will be because Valerie convinces Obama to throw Holder under the bus. It won't happen against their will. It will be a conscious decision to get rid of some dead weight.

108 posted on 06/11/2012 1:27:36 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: Raebie
Contact these men...they are working hard for us:

Congressman Darrell Issa:
Phone: 202-225-3906 • Fax: 202-225-3303

Congressman Paul Gosar:
Phone (202) 225-2315 Fax: (202) 226-9739

Ranking Democratic Committeeman Elijah Cummings told Issa that he was conducting a Witch Hunt.....If Mr. Cummings is protecting Mr. Holder with such self-serving remarks....he should recuse himself, Fast and Furious does not need such in house blindness.

109 posted on 06/11/2012 2:04:42 PM PDT by yoe (Proud to be part of the Tea Party movement.....!!!!!)
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To: BCR #226
He can ignore it all he wants until Congress has the US Federal Marshalls arrest Holder and confine him for contempt.

I'd love to see this happen but I'm afraid it's wishful thinking.

110 posted on 06/11/2012 2:19:33 PM PDT by teletech (Say NO to RINOS!)
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To: pabianice

What do you mean Boehner voted no? They had the vote already??

I was listening to Congressman Allen West just today say that when the vote comes he will be voting for the contempt charge against Holder.

When was the vote????


111 posted on 06/11/2012 3:34:28 PM PDT by seekthetruth (I want a Commander In Chief who honors and supports our Military!)
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To: Raebie

HillBuzz is reporting Issa claims he has 31 Democrats on board:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/issa-i-expect-31-democrats-will-be-with-us-on-hol


112 posted on 06/11/2012 3:38:05 PM PDT by cookcounty ("We're all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young." -J Goldberg)
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To: Raebie
Has anyone done much thinking about how the F&F stonewall might affect the Hispanic vote?

Two Hundred+ Mexican citizens dead from DOJ-supplied weaponry, and Obama and Holder are just shrugging their shoulders, as if to say, "so what?".

No matter where you are on the political spectrum, that is just plain sick.

113 posted on 06/11/2012 3:43:16 PM PDT by cookcounty ("We're all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young." -J Goldberg)
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To: MestaMachine

Hi, MM,

And guess who could be the replacement:

17 April 2012
“Taliban Al Qaeda Defender Tony West Gets No. 3 Position at DOJ”
http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2012/04/taliban-al-qaeda-defender-gets-no-3.html


114 posted on 06/11/2012 3:46:21 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Raebie

Yes, Virginia. There are Republicans in Congress with backbone.


115 posted on 06/11/2012 4:00:37 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: BCR #226
Holder is only the first in a LONG line of needed smack downs.

It's way past time for these crooks to go down. Hell, our Founding Fathers would have started shooting by now. For that matter, they would have been finished by now!

116 posted on 06/11/2012 4:39:22 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Clay Moore
They will all be doing lines off of the same mirror come nightfall.

Nothing ever changes.

Weasels ALWAYS protect their own.

117 posted on 06/11/2012 4:40:45 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Raebie

Bookmark


118 posted on 06/11/2012 4:44:03 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: immadashell
Why wait a week? My sentiments as well. This has been going on since October. I understand the wheels of justice grind slowly but 8 months is ridiculous.
119 posted on 06/11/2012 5:02:28 PM PDT by StarFan
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To: TiaS

“Holder briefly served as Acting Attorney General under the George W. Bush Administration — that is a fact.”

GW refused to clean house. He may have left Holder in for two weeks, but he left other Clintonistas in longer.

One of his biggest mistakes, cost a lot of American lives.


120 posted on 06/11/2012 6:20:35 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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