Posted on 06/20/2012 3:19:40 PM PDT by ColdOne
In the aftermath of a Wednesday vote by a House committee accusing Attorney General Eric Holder of being in contempt of Congress, the attorney general accused the panel's top Republican Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) of provoking a partisan showdown between the branches of government.
"He has chosen to use his authority to take an extraordinary, unprecedented and entirely unnecessary action, intended to provoke an avoidable conflict between Congress and the Executive Branch," Holder said in a statement.
"This divisive action does not help us fix the problems that led to this operation or previous ones and it does nothing to make any of our law enforcement agents safer. It's an election-year tactic intended to distract attention -- and, as a result -- has deflected critical resources from fulfilling what remains my top priority at the Department of Justice: Protecting the American people," Holder said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
What’s really sweet about this is the timing. They won’t have time to sweep it under the rug (like they have with the other scandals) before the election.
Of course the media will do their best to hush it up. But it aint gonna fly.
Just a matter of time for these thugs.
Oh yeah? Well, what did Holder and Obama want to provoke when they ordered illegal arms shipments to Mexican drug cartels?
What’s really laughable is these stories, I did not read...
WHAT BIAS?
-MSNBC Panel: Fast & Furious Scandal Bad for GOP, Good for Obama...
-MSNBC Matthews Slimes GOP as Racist for Going After Holder: An ‘Ethnic’ ‘Stop-and-Frisk’...
-Obama invokes executive privilege on ‘Fast and Furious’...
-Obama in 2009: Government Shouldn’t Keep Secrets ‘Because Public Officials Might Be embarrassed by Disclosure’...
-Obama in 2007: Criticized Hiding ‘Behind Executive Privilege’...
and these are hilarious also...
-Asserts Executive Privilege Day After Demanding Rove PAC’s Private Donor List...
Dem Waxman accuses GOP of ‘murder’...
Eric Holder is going to look so good in prison garb.
The Department of Justice ’ s Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents(above) Four ATF field agents testify under oath that they "never even heard of intentionally letting guns "walk" before F&F."
These four ATF agents all testify under oath that they were told not to interdict guns and there were no efforts to trace any of them. That is the definition of "walking" guns.
Wonder if Ken has a Mona Lisa smile on his face?
“Eric Holder is going to look so good in prison garb.”
Don’t hold your breath. Holder isn’t going anywhere except onto the back page after Issa and the House get through with him. Hell, we’ll probably see him sneak back into Justice as some sort of Under Secretary after the heat dies down.
It would be vindictive and mean spirited by the overly partisan Republicans to prosecute him.
They’ll cave as soon as they’ve wrung out their political points.
Don’t believe me. Ask Lon Horiuchi.
Turbo Tax Timmy
Eric WithHolder
You have to admit, this administration has better nicknames than players on a baseball team.
If Obama had a son, he’d look like Holder.
So now Eric the Withholder is playing a psy ops game of painting Issa as Zimmerman and himself as Trayvon? Give me a break!
Really? Who?
House of Represetatives. They can actual convine a trial there.
House of Represetatives. They can actual convine a trial there.
Barack Oblame-o
Then there is FerretCON and BLANK-O
RESIGN Holder, you corrupt racist gun grabbing loser.
LOL
Yes With Holder was under an order to produce documents.
The house will hold him in contempt. Then put his street thug
a$$ in jail.
If Issa is a brave, strong and honorable man, you will be wrong... if he’s not, then you will be right.
We shall see.... and I will continue to dream about the day that that white hating piece of scum is behind bars.
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