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Posted on 05/31/2013 4:25:31 PM PDT by raptor22
Scandal: Before he lied to Congress while under oath about what he knew about targeting reporters, he lied about Fast and Furious. As early as the New Black Panthers case, Eric Holder had a problem with the truth.
That the House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath during his May 15 testimony on Department of Justice (DOJ) surveillance of reporters comes as no surprise. People have forgotten about the New Black Panther case, perhaps the most clear-cut case of voter suppression and intimidation ever. On Election Day 2008, New Black Panther Party members in military garb were videotaped intimidating voters outside a Philadelphia polling place.
The slam-dunk prosecution of these thugs was dropped by Holder's Justice Department. When asked why, Holder, on March 1, 2011, testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies that the "decisions made in the New Black Panther Party case were made by career attorneys in the department."
Holder lied, for the decisions were made by political appointees. J. Christian Adams, a former career DOJ attorney in the Voting Rights Section, testified before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that it was Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, an Obama political appointee, who overruled a unanimous recommendation for prosecution by Adams and his associates.
Documents obtained by Judicial Watch and a ruling by Judge Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in response to a suit brought by the group show that "political appointees within DOJ were conferring about the status and resolution of the New Black Panther Party case in the days preceding the DOJ's dismissal of claims in that case."
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He use to lie to his mother.
Lying to Congress is the least of his crimes.
Congressmen lie to Congress. It’s a House of Liars. That’s how they get elected.
What DOES matter about the “American” Mr. Holder is his abuse of power. He clearly views statutory power as a license to do anything he wants to anyone he doesn’t like.
The Third World operates this way. That’s who he is: A Third World despot, a thug who sees police power as a way to push people around.
Impeach and Prosecute.
Pfl
Looking for times Holder has lied under oath is like hunting in a zoo.
He is still there, so in his mind, he will continue to do it, and get away with it.
Holder was very carefully selected by Obama for his, uh, er, talent:
Eric Holder Is Disqualified by the Marc Rich Pardon
By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/01/AR2008120102403.html
Excerpts:
The vehicle for this lingering echo from 2001 is the choice of Eric Holder to be Barack Obama’s attorney general. Holder was Clinton’s deputy attorney general, and he played a significant role in the pardon. When asked by the White House what he thought about a pardon for Rich, Holder replied, “Neutral, leaning towards favorable.” These four words have stalked him since.
Rich was a commodities trader who amassed both a fortune and some influential friends in the 1970s and ‘80s. Along with his partner, Pincus Green, he was indicted in 1983 on 65 counts of tax evasion and related matters. Before he could be prosecuted, however, he fled to Switzerland. There he remained, avoiding extradition and eventually arranging to be represented by Jack Quinn, a Washington lawyer and Clinton’s onetime White House counsel — in other words, a certified power broker. Quinn did an end run around the Justice Department’s pardon office and went straight to Holder and the White House. With a stroke of a pen, justice was not done.
Holder was not just an integral part of the pardon process, he provided the White House with cover by offering his go-ahead recommendation. No alarm seemed to sound for him. Not only had strings been pulled, but it was rare to pardon a fugitive — someone who had avoided possible conviction by avoiding the inconvenience of a trial. The U.S. attorney’s office in New York — which, Holder had told the White House, would oppose any pardon — was kept ignorant of what was going on. Afterward, it was furious.
When I tell people that I am bothered by the choice of Holder for attorney general, they invariably say that everyone is entitled to a mistake. Yes, indeed. And I add for them that in almost every other way, Holder is a dream nominee. He has been U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, a judge and a well-regarded lawyer in private practice. Moreover, to my personal knowledge, he is charming and well liked by his subordinates. A better attorney general nominee you’re not likely to find . . . the pardon excepted.
But the pardon cannot be excepted. It suggests that Holder, whatever his other qualifications, could not say no to power. The Rich pardon request had power written all over it — the patronage of important Democratic fundraisers, for instance. Holder also said he was “really struck” by the backing of Rich by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and the possibility of “foreign policy benefits that would be reaped by granting the pardon.” This is an odd standard for American justice, but more than that, what was Holder thinking? That U.S.-Israeli relations would suffer? Holder does not sound naive. He sounds disingenuous.
Holder sounded just as disingenuous when he told a House committee that he did not “reflexively oppose” the pardon of a fugitive because “I had previously supported a successful pardon request for a fugitive, Preston King.” King, a black civil rights activist, chose to be tried for draft evasion in 1961 rather than submit to what he considered racist treatment. After his conviction, he fled to Europe. The two cases are not in the least similar.
As noted, any person is entitled to make a mistake. But no one is entitled to be attorney general. That’s a post that ought to be reserved for a lawyer who appreciates that while he reports to the president, he serves the people. This dual obligation was beyond the ken of George W. Bush’s attorney general once removed, Alberto Gonzales, whose idea of telling truth to power came down to saying “Yes, sir. Yes, sir.” On Guantanamo, domestic spying and Bush’s “l’État c’est moi” view of the presidency, Gonzales was a cipher, and the damage of his tenure still needs to be repaired.
Holder was involved, passively or not, in just the sort of inside-the-Beltway influence peddling that Barack Obama was elected to end. He is not one of Obama’s loathed lobbyists; he was merely their instrument — a good man, certainly, who just as certainly did a bad thing. Maybe he deserves an administration job, just not the one he’s getting.
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Bingo.
I’m pretty sure that the first course taught at every law school is “how to lie.” Not that lawyers didn’t know how already, but to teach them more techniques.
I’ve actually been told by a lawyer that lawyers and judges assume that everyone is lying most of the time and it’s their job to figure out who is lying the most. Projection much?
Exactly. But this article gives us a list of the easily provable lies.
What I don’t understand is why nothing is done about this. Is there somehow a standard for which lies he gets a pass on? Are we waiting for some particular lie to be proven before anyone takes action against him? Is there some quota? Is he allowed three lies, or 10, or 100, before it’s considered serious? Does he get a pass on certain topics? What is the deal here?
Because Holder knows "where the bodies are buried." You can bet he's got files on just about everyone in power or connections to "high places." Simply put, he's the modern version of J Edgar Hoover, as far as political assassinations go.
Mark
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