Posted on 05/15/2013 1:41:20 PM PDT by servo1969
As predicted, Wednesday afternoon's testimony by Attorney General Eric Holder focused heavily on revelations that the Department of Justice subpoenaed phone records from the Associated Press following their publishing leaked information about a terror attack. The House Judiciary Committee had the wrong guy at the witness table, though, since Holder, who'd recused himself from the matter couldn't offer much new information. This left the committee members to fill the time by attacking their opponents, and allowed for a dispute that resulted in Holder calling a Congressmember's behavior "unacceptable and shameful."
At the start, it seemed as though the focus might not be the AP investigation. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the committee, either didn't have time to update his talking points for the hearing or let his own priorities slip through. During his opening comments, Goodlatte raised the following issues as topics, in order: the Boston terror attacks, spending at the department, questionable farm loan payments (known popularly as "Pigford"), the problems at the IRS, and, finally, the department's seizure of phone records from the AP.
Or, perhaps, it was because the chairman knew what questions he was likely to get answers to. When Goodlatte kicked off the questioning, he and Holder had a brief back-and-forth on the FBI's use and sharing of information about the Tsarnaevs prior to the Boston attacks. Holder agreed with Goodlatte, for example, that the law regarding the immediacy of reading Miranda rights didn't reflect what he sees as current needs. When Goodlatte moved on to the AP, the responses were less forthcoming. "I don't know" why a subpoena was necessary, Holder insisted, "I was recused."
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I said Holders answers would fit on the back of a matchbook
Why did Holder recuse himself?....HE never did. That was just his answer.
Not one comment herein stated that Holder has _NO_ business talking to an ranking elected congressman this way. May YHVH shut the month of these lawless creatures, inhabiting District C(rime).
I would ask him who recused you? On what date were you recused? Do you have any supporting documentation of said recusal?
... yeah, right ...
Including Kwame Kilpatrick?
Since when does a witness get to insult the chairman? Isn’t that a lack of decorum? And what makes Issa shameful? Asking questions that a lot of other people would have asked.
I watched this and my impression is that Rep. Bob Goodlatte is not a strong leader. He let the repubs drift from the main topics. Hey Bob step down and let Trey Gowdy take over!
Without a doubt, 0dumb0 & Holder as the 2 most evil, traitorous RAT bastards in the U.S., followed only by Hillary & Napalitano as a close #3 & #4. All 4 of these traitors should be convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison with no hope of pardon.
Holder is just another in the long line of Democrats who try to recreate the indignation of Joseph N. Welch telling Senator McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency, sir...” when McCarthy was pressing for an answer from a young lawyer on a fact Welch himself had confirmed in a New York Times article weeks before. As then, the media loved the “righteous indignation” in response to an attempt to get the truth out - whether or not it embarrasses the current Democrat or communist (sorry if I repeat myself) being questioned.
[[WTF is recusal about here?]]
Recusual is as lbier’s (and ONLYU a liberal’;s) get out of jail free card- Just imagine if a bank executive robbed his bank of millions of dolalrs, but when questioned abotu it he recuses hismelf sao that he doesn’t have to face any charges or answer any questions
[[He CAN’T recuse himself. He isn’t a judge. He is the boss of the department and answerable to the people (and Congress) for its actions and activities.]]
If he can’;t legally recuse hismelf, why aren’t the GOP demanding he answer?
Heh. Issa really got under his skin. Good.
“Holder knows his melanin is bullet proof.”
It’s time to let these traitors know that your skin color doesn’t excuse you from obeying the law. Once that is made abundantly clear, the skin color excuse goes away.
In South Carolina, the state has already arrested 20 of Holder’s thugs. Each one is facing up to 20 years in prison. That’s how you end bullet-proof melanin excuses. You put them on trial and throw them in prison when found guilty.
I cannot believe Issa didn’t take him apart in that, what a wuss.
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