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 ...
Fantastic. It’s all there. Great keep.
BTTT
Oh, and Generalissimo Holder's letting the New Black Panthers off the hook for wielding billy clubs at a polling booth while intimidating innocent whites who showed up to exercise their Constitutional right to vote was all about healing?
Actually I feel a lot better about it since Bammy invoked executive privilege today.
Seems like a big screw up to me.
LOL! Eric Stonewall WithHolder. They call him ‘Skittles’.
Poor holder. The agent provocateur has been provoked.
Gator, I’m in your corner.. I do hope that you’re right and I’m wrong on this one. I’d love to see Issa and the others really stand up to these creeps just as much as you would. I’m just lacking in faith that they’ll carry through.
LOL
Skittles Fo’Shizzle.
Holder wanted to “provoke” murders and other gun crimes.
That's both racist and gay all at once, erica.
Holder, Holder pants on fire ping.
Just for the record....
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Statement of Attorney General Eric Holder on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Vote
Attorney General Eric Holder issued the following statement today:
“In recent months, the Justice Department has made unprecedented accommodations to respond to information requests by Chairman Issa about misguided law enforcement tactics that began in the previous administration and allowed illegal guns to be taken into Mexico. Department professionals have spent countless hours compiling and providing thousands of documents — nearly 8,000 — to Chairman Issa and his committee. My staff has had numerous meetings with congressional staff to try and accommodate these requests and yesterday, I met with Chairman Issa to offer additional internal Department documents and information that would satisfy what he identified as the Committee’s single outstanding question.
“Unfortunately, Chairman Issa has rejected all of these efforts to reach a reasonable accommodation. Instead, 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. 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.
“Simply put, any claims that the Justice Department has been unresponsive to requests for information are untrue. From the beginning, Chairman Issa and certain members of the Committee have made unsubstantiated allegations first, then scrambled for facts to try to justify them later. That might make for good political theater, but it does little to uncover the truth or address the problems associated with this operation and prior ones dating back to the previous Administration.
“I have spent most of my career in law enforcement and worked closely with brave agents who put their lives on the line every day. I know the sacrifices they make, so as soon as allegations of gunwalking came to my attention – and well before Chairman Issa expressed any interest in this issue — I ordered the practice stopped. I made necessary personnel changes in the Department’s leadership and instituted policy changes to ensure better oversight of significant investigations. And, I directed the Department’s Inspector General to open a comprehensive investigation. That investigation is ongoing, and the American people and Congress can count on it to produce a tough, independent review of the facts.
“When Chairman Issa later began his own investigation, I made it clear that the Department would cooperate with all appropriate oversight requests, while still adhering to our legal obligations to protect information involving ongoing law enforcement investigations, legally-protected grand jury material and other sensitive information whose disclosure would endanger the American people or our agents investigating open cases.
“The American people deserve better. That is why, I will remain focused on, and committed to, the Justice Department’s mission to protect the rights, safety, and best interests of my fellow citizens and to stand by my brave colleagues in law enforcement.”
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/June/12-ag-776.html
That’s the guy that testified with his own lawyer on the 4th of July...am thinking and hoping that Issa has had all he needs to put the regime away for a long time, from Melson. I have some hope for once that Congress will impeach.convict just were waiting for the one sure thing that can do it...
Eric Holder, you are a lying sack of scum. You tarnish the office you hold with your lack of responsibility. Innocent people have died because YOU and others like YOU have pushed for a political agenda with no thought to the consequences. You have destroyed any and all credibility that the DOJ may have had. You’ve destroyed the public trust in the office you hold.
I’d like you, Mr. Eric Holder, to tell me why any of us should have any respect for you, your office or any of the laws on the books at this moment. If YOU, Mr. Holder, cannot abide by the laws and you are now trying to cover them up, why should any of us abide by them?
Mr. Holder, you not only need to resign, you need to spend the rest of your self serving life in prison for the deaths of not only Federal Agents but the deaths of both US and Mexican citizens. Was a gun ban really worth those people dying? You do realize the line you’ve crossed right? You fired the first shot. You and your slimy master, Obama drew the first deliberate blood in the gun issue. You murdered people to justify your position. This will not stand. Blood has been drawn. Cut the crap out now and resign.
As for the rest of you politicians. Repeal the damned gun control laws now. We’re done. We’re not going to tolerate any more of this crap. Don’t you DARE even think of passing any more of them. You WILL repeal the ones on the books if you expect to keep your jobs. If we the citizens have to do it through the courts, we’re not going to be nice about it.
The line has been crossed Mr. Holder and your comments today show that you don’t care one whit about anything but your own sorry self. You should be ashamed of your conduct. No real man would act like you have in such a cowardly fashion.
It’s too bad Democrats don’t have any shame. It would raise political discourse in this country so much.
Wait.. wasn’t Holder and Obama’s plan with Fast and Furious to Provoke a “2nd amendment crisis?”
So.. Holder is basically accusing others of what he was doing?
Hey h’mama,
It was more a rhetorical question. Happy as I am to see (finally!!!) an “official” rebuke of the lawless regime currently in power, it’s a long way to conviction, sentencing, jail time — you know, REAL consequences. Those seem few and far between for criminals in the political class these days. I can’t help but be pessimistic that the Boenher-led House will go to all that effort.
But I’m all for being proved wrong!
Great find.
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