Posted on 06/14/2012 5:24:04 PM PDT by neverdem
After more than a year of half-truths, stonewalling, obfuscating and outright lying to Congress about the “gunwalking” scandal known as Fast and Furious, Attorney General Eric Holder now finds himself trapped in a box canyon, out of ammo and surrounded by hostiles.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Finally run to ground, the embattled AG has tossed House and Senate investigators a fig leaf of feigned cooperation, just ahead of a House committee’s vote next week on whether to cite him for contempt.
“I’m offering to sit down with the speaker, the chairman, with you and work our way through this in an attempt to avoid a constitutional crisis and come up with ways, creative ways, in which to make these materials available,” Holder this week told Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
At issue is Holder’s refusal to turn over tens of thousands of F&F documents that have been under subpoena since last fall. So far, Justice has managed to slow-walk about 7,600 up Capitol Hill.
Now the embattled Holder wants to deal.“Creatively,” whatever that means.
Sorry, Mr. AG — you had your chance to come clean and you blew it. Now it’s time to play Truth or Consequences.
Next Wednesday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, headed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), will decide whether to move a long-threatened contempt citation forward to the full House...
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And, despite Holder’s delaying tactics, the truth about how that insanity came about has been clear for some time: A cabal of officials at the highest levels of the Justice Department authorized the operation as part of the Obama administration’s “stealth” gun-control strategy — presumably to make it appear that the horrific violence of Mexico’s drug war is partly our fault...
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B..b..but what will Holder’s people say?
HERE is the money quote from Holder....
“...come up with ways, creative ways, in which to make these materials available”
“Creative”?????????
Good grief, gimme a break!
Frog march the bastard!!
I hope not. I want him around for the election :)
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“...Attorney General Eric Holder now finds himself trapped in a box canyon, out of ammo and surrounded by hostiles.”
But he is still bitterly clinging, um, er, “sticking to his guns”...and shooting spitballs.
Ping
This is simple not requiring creativity. Just give them the damn emails and documents.
He can’t because they perjure him and show obama and the WH knew about F&F well before they said they did. Because this was supposed to give them the reason to go after the 2nd Amemdmemt as Obama promised the “Brady bunch” he would.
This punk would look marvelous in orange.
It’s not clear to me the consequences to Holder if the house does declare him in contempt.
‘HERE is the money quote from Holder....
“...come up with ways, creative ways, in which to make these materials available”
“Creative”?????????
Good grief, gimme a break!
Frog march the bastard!!”
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Its called bribery/buying someone off and I trust neither him nor anyone else in the Gov. to do anything else.. I trust the Gov. about as far as could throw a RINO!!!
What is the Constitutional crisis Holder is talking about. The rules are laid out.
Is he trying to say he will ignore the contempt citation?
That he and Obama will fight the Congress?
And that's the kicker that has them scared out of their minds.
Could bring down Obama himself.
There is one, and ONLY one, way to "creatively make the materials available". That is his successor takes the list and provides them.
This must be putting Obama in a real pickle...
Holder has been his cover man and political operative in the DOJ for all sorts of malfeasance....some very very serious .....
That pandora box of misdeeds needs to be kept shut at all costs.....some of it is so juicy even the syncophants with the golden kneepads might want to actual do some real investigative reporting...If Holder isn’t around to threaten them....
Personally, I think Obama will circle the wagons wait them out and eventually pardon the dirtbag....after all impeachment of the AG will take us pass the election ....
This must be putting Obama in a real pickle...
Holder has been his cover man and political operative in the DOJ for all sorts of malfeasance....some very very serious .....
That pandora box of misdeeds needs to be kept shut at all costs.....some of it is so juicy even the syncophants with the golden kneepads might want to actual do some real investigative reporting...If Holder isn’t around to threaten them....
Personally, I think Obama will circle the wagons wait them out and eventually pardon the dirtbag....after all impeachment of the AG will take us pass the election ....
Nothing to worry about. neverdem posted a link to the print version, which spares readers from enduring all of the pop-ups and animations embedded in the non-print version.
I hope he refuses to go quietly, “taking one for Team Obama.”
I hope he squeals and flips and screams that his boss told him to do it.
“Under the radar.”
Is he trying to say he will ignore the contempt citation?
That he and Obama will fight the Congress?-——
Of course he will fight Congress and ignore the contempt citation....
obama only respects his reflection in the mirror ...
Impeachment hearings of Holder will take us pass the election....
Obama wins....holder resigns and will be replace by thug “B” ....
Obama loses....holder is gone anyway....
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