Issa threatens Holder with contempt of Congress charge(Gunwalker)

Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 8 December, 2011 | David Codrea

[marktwain]

Following a pattern established in previous hearings, today's House Judiciary Committee hearing produced fireworks from the Republicans and calls for more gun control from the Democrats. The grilling of Eric Holder climaxed at the very end of the day's proceedings, when Rep. Darrell Issa threatened the attorney general with contempt of Congress for his refusal to produce communications and logs, resulting in the embattled top law enforcement officer shooting back a line reminiscent of the McCarthy hearings:

"Have you no shame?"

Among some of the surprises: Holder was not sworn in as Issa had requested. Chairman Lamar Smith indicated the attorney general was already technically under oath.

Per Holder, no one lied.

'It all has to do with your state of mind and whether or not you had the requisite intent to come up with something that would be considered perjury or a lie," he said in reply to a line of questioning by Rep. James Sensenbrenner.

"If we don't get to the bottom of this — and that requires your assistance on that — there is only one alternative that Congress has, and it's called impeachment," Sensenbrenner threatened.

Holder adamantly refused to resign when asked if he would, nor would he indicate anyone else had done anything to merit resignation.

One of the more outrageous abuses of time to stump for gun control instead of determine the truth came from Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia, who began with the statement that "There is a hole in our gun control laws that is so large that you could drive or fly a space shuttle through it. And it's called the gun show loophole. And so we've got gun shows, thousands of gun shows per year being held throughout America. And we've got untold numbers of licensed gun dealers

[Arrowhead1952]

One of the more outrageous abuses of time to stump for gun control instead of determine the truth came from Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia,

Hey Hank, did Guam ever tip over as you feared? Now there is one of the brightest curly bulbs in congress!!

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I hope no one needed me to add the < /sarc> tag.

[Little Ray]

'It all has to do with your state of mind and whether or not you had the requisite intent to come up with something that would be considered perjury or a lie," he said in reply to a line of questioning by Rep. James Sensenbrenner.

Funny that standard didn't seem to apply when they sent that aide in the Bush administration to jail'.

[MasterGunner01]

I want to see Holder arrest himself and snap-on the cuffs before a live audience! That's entertainment.

[brityank]

The left has always held that lying was perfectly acceptable, as long as it futhered their agenda.

So have and do any and all Law EnFORCEment entities, with the connivance and agreement of all of the Courts, including the US Supreme Court. Any 'truth' you find by lying is tainted with doubt.

[itsahoot]

Hey Hank, did Guam ever tip over as you feared?

Thankfully they sent those Marines to Australia thereby avoiding that catastrophe.

[TigersEye]

bttt

[Soothesayer9]

Contempt of Congress charge? Seriously?

So the liar-in-chief WALKS then, I take it?

[Del Rapier]

It seems that all news of the violence in Mexico has disappeared lately,along with any reports of Fast and furious.

So someone is trying to bury this story.

[ripley]

It’s not the scu*bags in high office that are the problem, it’s the scu*bags who elect them again, and again, and again, ad nauseum.

IMHO