Posted on 06/09/2019 1:56:07 PM PDT by John Semmens
Attorney General William Barr is not the first AG to be held in contempt by Congress. Obama’s AG Eric Holder also shared this experience. Holder appeared on CNN this past week to explain how the two instances differ.
“Back in the early years of the Obama Administration we had a program called ‘Fast and Furious’ in which we were trying to set up a ‘sting’ operation by smuggling guns to the Mexican cartels,” Holder recalled. “The idea was, we would have the identifying information—serial numbers and ballistics—by which we could tie specific weapons to specific crimes. Just because this plan didn’t workout as we’d hoped—serial numbers were filed off, gun barrels were defaced hindering the usefulness of ballistic data, and hundreds of murders were committed with the weapons we supplied—Republicans in Congress tried to second-guess this plan. Naturally, we withheld subpoenaed documents.”
“In Barr’s case, the document subpoenaed by Congress is the Mueller Report,” Holder pointed out. “There’s no ongoing covert operation to protect. There are plenty of witnesses—Mueller himself and anyone of the more than dozen attorneys on his team who could tell Congress what’s in the redacted sections of the Mueller Report—that could be called to reveal this content. So, Barr’s refusal based on the law prohibiting the disclosure of this redacted content serves no important purpose other than to save himself from legal jeopardy.”
“In short, I was fighting for the principle that the federal government’s covert actions should not be subject to legislative oversight,” Holder emphasized. “To inject such oversight into the equation, especially in the midst of the failure of this sensitive undertaking we were engaged in, was a direct threat to national security. In contrast, Barr’s actions put the onus of breaking the law onto the patriots on the Mueller team who have done heroic work to try to rid the nation of the dangerous Trump Administration.”
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif) praised Holder’s “courageous defense of government authority” and denounced Barr as “the second most dangerous man in the country. His lack of appreciation for what the intelligence community does to protect America from both foreign and domestic enemies is deeply disturbing. Even if his premise that the intelligence community’s actions endanger the democratic process of electing our leaders is correct, this is the lesser evil compared to supinely allowing an unqualified usurper to dupe voters into electing him. I fear for the fate of our country while Trump remains in office.”
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Breathtaking. Holder is telling us that there should be no legislative oversight on whatever activities the agencies declare to be covert. It could anything as benign or nefarious as you can imagine. Holder thinks tax-paying citizens have no right to know.
Anyone could have told Holder that bad guys are smarter than you think and won’t play by your rules. Of course they file serial numbers off arms and deface the rifling in barrels. Then they turn around and us them on US citizens, too. But we weren’t supposed to know that.
Same thing with the soft coup against Trump. We weren’t supposed to know. They’re self-serving overlords who view We The People as their own chattel.
Getting guns in the hands of terrorist was one this idiots specialties!!!
You do understand this is satire, don’t you? Not that this is too far from the truth, which is what makes this good satire and therefore believable.
John is nearly a genius at these things. I’ve been a fan for awhile now. I’m always amused at people who can’t tell that its satire. There have even been complaints from people who can’t tell that it’s satire.
Oof. They got me. Wouldn’t surprise me much if Holder or one of the other agency swamp creatures had said it!
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