Holder exit would empty tank on Fast and Furious investigation

Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 8 November, 2012 | David Codrea

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Attorney General Eric Holder told University of Baltimore law students he may not serve a second Obama term, CBS DC reported today.

“Do I have gas left in the tank?” he asked, saying he still must talk things over with his family and the president about if he “can contribute to a second term.”

Holder’s tank is not the only one running on empty. His departure would effectively strand the Congressional Fast and Furious investigation on the side of the road, along with any chance of determining his level of involvement in decision-making and subsequent stonewalling. A Republican leadership that had no belly for making that a campaign issue would hardly be likely to pursue a private citizen connected to a White House that just beat the best they had to throw at it, if for no other reason than how it would appear.

Even before the election, Holder resigning was something anyone truly interested in determining his culpability should have resisted—which made calls for him to do just that all the more puzzling, as those Republicans making them would have to know that incentive to pursue him once he left office would evaporate. The natural focus of those out of power is on those who hold what they covet.

Once Holder is gone, so will go any chance for political gain, plus Republicans know they’d be painted as bullies in some corners and racists in others if they dared go after him (some have been doing that all along). It just wouldn’t be worth it to them, especially since a reinvigorated Obama is confident that should the trail get too close he retains the pardon option, knowing the media and constituency that returned him to power would back him to the hilt.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

And all the investigations of Benghazi is still being done by the very same Justice Dept. hierarchy that investigated “Fast and Furious” .
I suspect that it will take another 18 months , and another whistle-blower to find out what really happened .