Posted on 06/05/2012 5:50:28 AM PDT by marktwain
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) is trying to derail an effort to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over his lack of cooperation in the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious.
It's the latest chapter in a drawn-out melodrama that continues to hold the attention of Northwest gun right activists at WaGuns, Seattle Guns and Gun Rights Media.
In a two-page letter to House Speaker John Boehner, who has also seemed somewhat reluctant to push the Fast and Furious investigation, LCCHR alleged that “the tenor and approach you are reportedly taking does a disservice to Congress, the Attorney General’s office, and the public, and may also be a partisan attempt to discredit the Attorney General.” The LCCHR letter may be read here.
The news comes as another member of Congress, California Rep. Tom McClintock (R-4th District) has joined scores of his colleagues in signing a “no confidence” resolution regarding Holder, according to The Daily Caller.
In its letter to Boehner, the LCCHR also insisted that Holder has cooperated with the investigation by Congressman Darrell Issa and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, providing some 7,000 pages of documents and allowing several subordinates to testify.
However, Issa, and Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) – the man who initially launched Capitol Hill’s investigation of Fast and Furious nearly 18 months ago – have repeatedly claimed the Justice Department is sitting on tens of thousands of other requested documents. Those documents, sources have speculated, might reveal just how high the scandal, and its alleged cover-up, extend in the Obama administration. Yesterday marked one month since Issa submitted a memorandum to members of his committee that included a draft contempt citation, reported by this column.
The LCCHR letter has a defensive tone:
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I'm pretty sure he prays that this would just go away so he doesn't have to do anything that would require him to take a stand. He's far more worried about his next election than he is about anything Eric Holder might do.
AND they have the gall to call me and ask for MONEY$$$$!!!
KMA, you spinelss wimps!!
Time for Sir John Boehner the Boneless to bow out of Congress and go back to tending bar in Ohio where he can devote more time to his tan.
With the example set by Obama (and Holder) in constantly playing the race card and paralyzing the rule of law. I am now firmly convinced that no black, of whatever party or political conviction, should ever be elected president again.
Two dead Federal agents and 300 dead Mexicans just don’t matter to the LCCHR.
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