Posted on 08/14/2012 8:16:19 PM PDT by maggiesnotebook
Congressman Darrell Issa and the House Oversight Committee filed the civil lawsuit yesterday against Attorney General Eric Holder in the Fast and Furious case. To be clear, there are no charges that Holder had anything to do with Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's death, or the walking of guns across the U.S. border into Mexico. The charges are simply that Holder has ignored subpoenas and withheld Fast and Furious documents from Congress, and thus, is in Contempt of Congress. The documents are the starting point to actual prosecutions of criminal and civil liability in one of the worst acts of Government against The People's Second Amendment rights in our Nation's history. It is reasonable to assume the civil litigation will not be resolved before the election, and perhaps not by the time Obama and Company exit Washington, D.C. It begs the question, what can a Romney-Ryan White House do about it?
The House voted for both criminal and civil Contempt of Congress. Obama's spokeskid, Jay Carney, announced in June that the White House will NOT act to direct the DOJ to prosecute Holder criminally on the Contempt of Congress charges - with Obama claiming Executive Privilege. So the only avenue is civil "justice" for The People to force the administration to produce documents that many of us believe will show Fast and Furious was devised to weaken Second Amendment rights, and along the way managed to kill a Border Patrol agent.
The question: when we have an Romney-Ryan DOJ, which will undoubtedly be a strong Second Amendment protector, can and/or will the new DOJ be directed to take up the criminal charges against Holder for ignoring subpoenaed documents, which will be the only way to eventually receive justice for Agent Brian Terry, and hold Eric Holder accountable?
Yeah, right after GW prosecutes Sandy Burglar.
I smell a pre-pardon.
The Ryan Doctrine calls for a special prosecutor... Is Rudy Giuliani available?
No. A successor administration will not set a precedent of litigating against a former administration.
I see Holder moving to Hawaii with the Obama’s after the election. Probably work as Barry’s pool boy or something.
No. A successor administration will not set a precedent of litigating against a former administration.
That is without taking into consideration the fact that for the first time in our nation’s history the US AG has been held in contempt of Congress. That was unprecedented, and bringing Holder to justice to answer for the deaths of hundreds of people including a couple of Americans will be unprecedented as well.
I agree with you. But any prosecution would be met with the next democrat administration rifling through the previous Republican administration’s files lookin for a reason to indict. The US Presidents’ Club is small and exclusive. There is no reason to sully the brand.
But, is there a chance that the next Congress, if the scales are tipped with some young, aggressive types, take up the responsibility and do what should have been done months ago? thus shielding Romney/Ryan?
But, is there a chance that the next Congress, if the scales are tipped with some young, aggressive types, take up the responsibility and do what should have been done months ago? thus shielding Romney/Ryan?
I tend to agree with Mike but for different reasons. The biggest is one US Agent was killed on our soil as a direct result of their actions, whether politically on purpose or political incompetence, and another killed while serving in Mexico. That goes without mention to the hundreds of Mexican civilians and quite possibly American civilians on both sides of the border such as the rancher in Cochise County, Az.
Seeing that we are way beyond being in Kansas anymore, I would think a new administration does not need to go trawling for crimes of this one but they will be dropping in their laps right and left. Whistle-blowers are going to be lining up at the new Justice Department like customers on the Chick-fil-A appreciation day.
Combine that with a population that is starving for a little justice out of Justice. Remember, it takes political pressure to get that office to act and we will be applying it in ways never seen before.
I tend to agree with Mike but for different reasons.
Also, we can simply extradite Holder to Mexico to face charges there for the deaths of hundreds of their citizens.
That’s where I think action against this administration will come from. But probably not if Boehner is still running things - unless enough TPartiers clamor for it.
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