Posted on 06/19/2012 3:36:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
The meeting between Attorney General Eric Holder and Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa has ended after 20 minutes of discussion. Holder came with an offer of a briefing on Fast and Furious documents, but did not physically turn over any documents. This is unsatisfactory to Issa who has said repeatedly that in order for Holder to avoid a contempt vote Wednesday at 10 AM, he must hand over 1300 Fast and Furious documents to the committee.
"The documents they may choose to give in the future, we need before tomorrow," Issa said to reporters. "“Ultimately the documents needed for postponement seem to be in their possession.”
Holder's failure to produce documents at the 5 PM meeting come after he failed to present them by this morning as requested, after he failed to respond to an October 2011 subpoena as requested and after more than a year of requests for transparency surrounding his role in Operation Fast and Furious.
Issa said there is a chance Holder would submit the requested documents tonight but that a contempt vote is still scheduled for Wednesday and has released an official statement.
“I had hoped that after this evening’s meeting I would be able to tell you that the Department had delivered documents that would justify the postponement of tomorrow’s vote on contempt. The Department told the Committee on Thursday that it had documents it could produce that would answer our questions. Today, the Attorney General informed us that the Department would not be producing those documents. The only offer they made involved us ending our investigation.“While I still hope the Department will reconsider its decision so tomorrow’s vote can be postponed, after this meeting I cannot say that I am optimistic. At this point, we simply do not have the documents we have repeatedly said we need to justify the postponement of a contempt vote in committee.”
Stay tuned for updates.
Enough of these *looming* charges. Charge Holder with contempt and anything else Congress can throw at him. Enough is enough.
Let us now see just HOW big a disaster the GOP wants on it’s hands come November.
Let’s just SEE.
Holder’s is corrupt as they come. He has not delivered documents. His only purpose now is to pick off as many RAT house votes on the contempt charge to make it look like a GOP
witch hunt. That’s all it is.
Strongly worded letter to follow tomorrow...
Total B.S. and political theater. Nothing will ever come of this. Our President and his cronies are raping the country and urinating on the Constitution and our do nothing worthless Congress and Senate just sit still and watch it happen.
Don’t just loom. Lower the boom!
They'll roll over. They always do.
Let the voting begin.
That is a great post!
Only someone as old as me would know that is from Casa Blanca!
LOL!
Blessings to You!
Blessings, Bobo
They now have to choices
Push this hard or just close up shop and admit that Obama is a dictator.
Watched holder’s remarks after the meeting. If I was bulimic, it would have done the trick.
Ping.
If Holder was a republican and democrats were running this hearing, Holder would already be in prison..
I'm putting my money on dictator. If "Obama" has been allowed to Occupy the pResidency for going on four years without having ever qualified under the Twentieth Amendment, Section #3, then all constitutionally bullish bets are off.
Memoirs of a Concubine? It was long and boring, like this.
ph
That's the fact, Jack!
[though ... having the MSM in your back pocket is extraordinary help]
Nothing will happen to Holder that Obama and the press can’t blame on Republicans.
One has to wonder what he the hell holder is hiding that is worth a contempt charge...
Maybe I'm just a rube, but I don't see how this helps Obama or the democratic party in the long run...
Yes, they can claim GOP racism and try and make political hay with this ....but at the end of the day....somebody needs to answer for F&F and it isn't going to be the GOP...
Unless the fix is already in....
it still boggles my mind how this could be construed in any way as racism. seriously. holder isn’t facing contempt charges because he’s black...it’s because he isn’t complying!
how, tell me, how could this be spun as racism by the msm? are they actually claiming that it is?
Didn’t Holder ask for this meeting...and he brings diddly swat?
But Issa said, “Today, the Attorney General informed us that the Department would not be producing those documents. The only offer they made involved us ending our investigation.”
...Appears the thug top cop made an offer that Issa shouldn’t refuse.
Issa Plans to Move Forward With Holder Contempt Vote
http://influencealley.nationaljournal.com/2012/06/issa-plans-to-move-forward-wit.php
Oh,come on. I'm certainly not as old as you and I knew that was from Casa Blanca.
You are correct, but it has little to do with intestinal fortitude.
It has everything to do with who has controlled the MSM for these last 50 years.
Whaaa?
Simple. When leftist are going to act racist, they first blame their opponents of racism. That then gives them cover to be racist. So the left wants to support Holder simply because he is black. They are the racist and they need cover. You can apply that rule to just about any situation.
Oh' that's easy....since they would actually have to report on F&F like real reporters and they are incapable of doing that...
The race card is the only thing left they have....
Issa = I ‘m Still Screwing Around
Shucks, I am 59 years old and my wife who is 4 years younger than me would not have identified that picture!
couse, she hates old movies. my favorite is The Caine Mutiny, as far as Humphrey Bogart is concerned.
Blessings, Bobo
Does this mean you agree with Speaker Boehner, that Issa's investigation is just a "distraction" from the election?
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
http://www.nachumlist.com/gunrunner.htm
Congress = Against Growth - literally!
They won’t touch Holder, because they are still too worried about some dufus baseball player who may or may not have taken steriods...... Last time I checked, any athlete taking steriods never killed anybody - geez, we can’t say that about our AG, can we?
How is Weeper, Boner, Boehner (sic?) handling this? Will he interfere? If so, he should be held under contempt along with Holder.
How is Weeper, Boner, Boehner (sic?) handling this? Will he interfere? If so, he should be held under contempt along with Holder.
Wouldn’t have had to stick my finger down my throat to gag myself as bulimics are wont to do.
I’m a little [well, ok... more than a little] slow at times...
-———————— what he the hell holder is SCHREDING.
Why isn’t this an October surprise?
What more can be used for October surprise?
Of course I know that.
“Round up the usual suspects” is one of my favorite lines from that movie.
They are in “Casablanca”....means White House, doesn't it.
Used Casablanca intentionally? I've wondered about that for many years.
Guess who gets to arrest Holder and put him in prison for Contempt of Congress, if it comes to that?
The Attorney General of the USA would be responsible for enforcing a contempt decision.
The President's involvement...from the very outset.
Sorry for the post burp.
Care to expand your thinking on that?
Separation of Powers conflicts are Big Deals and this clearly involves a corrosive racial divide as well. Yet doing nothing about this blatant contempt of Congress' Constitutional powers solves nothing. This may have to end with a bang, not a whimper.
My sister, who has always had a bit of a weight problem, says she is a failed bulimic because it sounds kind of messy to clean up, so she takes a pass on it.
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