Posted on 06/19/2012 5:38:57 AM PDT by marktwain
Finally, Eric Holder is on the ropes. House members are readying to vote him in contempt of Congress. Senators wonder aloud whether he can be trusted to investigate White House leaks that have exposed inside information about some of our most successful antiterror operations to some of our most dangerous enemies.
Alas, the old bulls of the Senate—including Republicans John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley, along with Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman—are calling for the one thing that might derail the accountability train: a special prosecutor.
It all makes for the perfect tea party moment, an opportunity to make one of the most attractive arguments from the 2010 revolution: that process is as important as outcome, and that the Constitution gives us all the process we need to hold our leaders accountable.
The most immediate constitutional mechanism for accountability happens to be the one Mr. Holder is trying to put off—a vote by the House to hold him in contempt for refusing to turn over documents relating to "Fast and Furious." That was a stupid policy that had tragic results when a weapon smuggled into Mexico by U.S. authorities ended up being used to kill a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Should the House hold him in contempt, Mr. Holder would be left with three choices: standing by as a U.S. attorney begins prosecuting him; directing the U.S. attorney not to prosecute him; or invoking executive privilege to justify not releasing the documents Congress seeks.
There are huge downsides to all three. Let's take them one by one.
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Gunwalker / Murdergate ping.
When Nixon would NOT, Attorney General would not.....
This is about protecting the community organizer who thought up GUN RUNNER. Only a Constitution Hating scumbag like Obama would dump guns into Mexico for the purpose of attacking US gun distributors, US gun manufacturers and then US gun owners.
Americans have been trained to trust the government, trust the media, trust the system to do the right thing. Unfortunately, it has not done the right thing for decades.
The REPUBS know they cannot impeach the traitor. The DEMS embrace treason, it is what they are. Bill Clinton, a serial rapist, could not be impeached, our first Muslim President can't be impeached either. And he knows it.
Holder is just a cog in the real problem. Congress should hold hearings on the Obama administrations concept that it can be selective on which laws to obey and which it chooses to ignore. Also this whole concept of “executive orders” is fishy. If the President can issue an “order” however controversial and it has the force of law,ignore laws he doesn’t like, then a skeptic could argue Congress is merely an advisory body. The whole concept of “executive orders” should go before the supreme Court,
House members are readying to vote him in contempt of Congress.
It can’t happen too soon.
I could wait til October.
Wonder aloud? They know d@mn well Holder cannot be trusted for anything except perpetuation of bias and dishonesty.
ICE Agent Jaime Zapata and his partner, Victor Avila, were ambushed at a fake roadblock in Mexico. Were they set up? If so by whom?
Maybe because they closed or are closing down so many power plants there will not be enough power for all the paper shredders they will need to cover this up.
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