Posted on 06/14/2012 6:40:37 PM PDT by marktwain
On June 20, the House Oversight Committee will meet to decide whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. All of this stems from Operation Fast and Furious, a government-run gun-running program that had no clear goals, no real oversight and, by many accounts, was intended to cause violence that could be used as a pretext to chip away at Americans’ Second Amendment rights. I predict that the House Oversight Committee, of which I am a member, will find him in contempt. That would be the right outcome. Here are the top three reasons why:
1) Holder won’t comply with our subpoena. Congress has been requesting Department of Justice records about Fast and Furious since March 2011. Getting no real voluntary cooperation (and getting a lot of double talk and delay), we issued a subpoena in October 2011. It is Holder’s refusal to comply with that subpoena in good faith that is bringing this vote to the committee. We are due over 10,000 documents.
2) Holder has been less than forthcoming. The attorney general has not been candid with the committee. Some say Holder has perjured himself on what he knew about Fast and Furious and when he knew it. He has had to issue one too many “corrections” to his testimony after the fact. Most famously, Holder’s department first told us that no gun-running had occurred, then once the truth was discovered, the DOJ “retracted” that testimony — after a year of misleading the people.
3) Holder hasn’t held anyone accountable. Guns distributed through this DOJ program have been used to kill Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry as well as hundreds of Mexicans. Holder has refused to accept responsibility for the deaths on both sides of the border and has refused to hold anyone under his authority, particularly political appointees, accountable.
Holder’s efforts to delay this investigation and mislead the House Oversight Committee are unprecedented. This is only the fourth time in the past 30 years that Congress has sought to hold an executive branch member in contempt, but, as I’ve noted, the contempt proceedings are warranted by the facts and, quite frankly, overdue.
Finally, I am the sponsor of H. Res. 490, which is seeking a vote of no confidence in Holder. Regardless of whether Holder is held in contempt, we should vote on my resolution of no confidence. So far, 114 members of Congress are supporting it. I have lost confidence in Holder and so have the American people.
Rep. Paul Gosar, a Republican, represents Arizona’s First Congressional District. He is a member of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
But, they have no integrity.
Gunwalker / Murdergate ping.
You only need one - the others are superfluous.
This is many orders of magnitude bigger than Watergate.This time the crime is as big as the cover-up.
Too right !! Senator Johnson of WS said, “ Everything here moves too slow.” That is the story of what is wrong in Washington.
Why soft shoe about him probably lying? HE’S LIED numerous times. Saying Fast & Furious references in Emails had nothing to do with Fast & Furious was an outright lie, and that’s just one of many.
However, they are no longer buying in by the barrel. they are buying ink by the pint. Let them go out of business since the "fourth estate" has become a "fifth column"
It has been since McCarthy.
Issa (Bennett) meets behind closed doors with Holder (Hawaii) and works out an agreement where nobody gets hurt.
Stitch McConnell told GRETA that he was more afraid of a Holder replacement, in the event of a Holder impeachment, than the devil known.
Now, how would he like it if the voters said that about his man Romney—that the devil you know is better than the one you don’t.
According to the Ulsterman Report back this winter, the gap of time between Holder and his replacement would be of critical importance, urgently requiring Congress to get inside the Justice Department before the shredding begins and the replacement arrives.
As far as this backing down by Holder, what is to guarantee he will turn over important documents that could end his career and implicate our communists leader, King Obama. The House should go ahead with contempt.
Now they are in a mush harder place. So they will take the normal cowards way out. They will hold him in contempt and censure him which means absolutely nothing. It's one step lower than sending him home with a note to his mom.
WACO
OKC
Ruby Ridge
Elian Gonzales
Fast & Furious
Arizona Lawsuit
Sheriff Joe harassment
Florida Lawsuit
Alabama Lawsuit
(Just to name a few.)
The number ONE reason holder should be held in contempt, along with the rest of congress, is that he was so criminally compromised during the clinton admin that he NEVER should have been allowed to serve in any capacity whatsoever in our government...ever. He should have been prosecuted and been UNDER the jail THEN and STILL. Period.
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It was an observation of General Groves, of the Manhattan Project, that the public would be up in arms over the expenditure of $10,000 on shrubbery, but would remain unmoved by a $10,000,000 overrun on a research project, because, as he surmised, they couldn't relate to it. I've often thought that it was the picayune nature of the Watergate break-in that energized the entire scandal, for this very reason.
And no one died in Watergate.
Thanks for the ping.
Even someone with a very severe case of LMFD should be able to recognize that Brian Terry is dead as a result of criminal activity by someone in government. A person with LMFD might believe such activity could not possibly have involved higher-ups in the administration (it must be entirely the fault of underlings), but would nonetheless be able to recognize that (1) some criminals somewhere in the government committed actions which got someone killed, and (2) such criminals should be prosecuted; (3) seeing that such criminals get prosecuted is an essential part of Eric Holder's job; (4) any attempt by Eric Holder to prevent the investigation and prosecution of such criminals constitutes a refusal to do his job; (5) it is entirely proper for the government to demand that someone either do their job, resign, or be fired; if a person refuses to do his job and gets fired, the fired person is responsible for his own loss of employment.
While those without LMFD would regard "refusal to do his job" as an extreme sugar-coating of Mr. Holder's actions, I would suggest that's still the best angle to take. If one argues that Mr. Holder's actions are much worse than that, people with LMFD will dismiss any such claims as conspiracy theory and ignore them completely. On the other hand, even people with LMFD recognize that government employees are supposed to do their jobs, and also recognize that it's not unreasonable to demand that people do their jobs as a condition of continued employment. Even if Mr. Holder's motives were as pure as the driven snow, and were refusing to do his job simply because he was incapable of doing it, it would still be appropriate to fire him and replace him with someone more capable. There is simply no basis for leaving the highest law-enforcement office in the land in the hands of someone who, for whatever reason, cannot or will not execute its duties faithfully and effectively.
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