Posted on 06/13/2012 3:28:10 PM PDT by kingattax
House Committee and Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa told BuzzFeed today that he expects 31 Democrats will join Congressional Republicans in finding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents relating to a botched gun-running investigation.
Issa, who has risen to national prominence as the point of the Republican spear in investigating alleged Obama administration wrongdoing, called for a committee vote on contempt next week in advance of a full House vote on Holder's conduct in the so-called "Fast and Furious" operation, in which a federal agent was allegedly killed with a gun the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms allowed to be trafficked.
"The real question is, we’re opening up the data that we have to all the members, so as they start reading specifics of what we know was known and was hidden from Congress, and what we’d like to know and been denied, how many of the Democrats will vote with us," Issa said after speaking at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York. "I expect we’ll have about 31 Democrats with us." Issa said under normal circumstances he'd expect the vote to pressure Holder to turn over the documents, but that now he's hoping the president intercedes on Congress' behalf.
"After Thursday’s hearing with the Attorney General, no, I don’t expect it, but I would hope that the president would second-guess the man that he says he has full faith and confidence in, and tell him that it’s time to deliver reasonable documents," Issa said.
Issa compared the growing scandal to Iran Contra and Watergate, saying the cover-up is far worse than the "dumb" operation. "This is like Iran Contra, like Watergate, and other embarrassments over the years," Issa said. "The major embarrassment is the delay in being honest and open about it. It’s not about something really dumb got done. Dumb things happen in government. But when the GSA did dumb things, once it became public we saw a pretty quick change, certainly Secret Service we saw an even quicker change."
Asked whether his committee would hold hearings to investigate White House leaks, Issa said that while he has jurisdiction to investigate, his committee currently has no plans to. "We have a very busy schedule, and we will coordinate with the other committees [to investigate]," he said, noting that the House and Senate intelligence committees would likely take the lead
Holder is Obama’s cover. F&F was Obama’s plan. Holder executed the plan. Holder will be throwing Obama under the bus, not vice versa.
Yea...I did a quick google search and PATCON keep coming up....
I had no idea.....
If true....everyone of sob’s should be hung.....
He called this a Dumb thing??? The Death of this Agent is not something I would call Dumb, more like Tragic.
"Issa, who has risen to national prominence as the point of the Republican spear". And there you have it. Issa is using this to promote himself and score political points. He does not have the guts to see it through as the conclusion means holder goes to prison and Obama is impeached.
"a botched gun-running investigation."
Just stop it! The only thing that was "botched" is they got caught trying to subvert the constitution by creating a gun control crisis.
Nothing will happen until after November.
Don’t count your Democrats before they hatch Mr. Issa. No doubt the Dems will promise something to get the Repubs to “negotiate” with Holder...once he is off the hook for the contempt charge those 33 votes will disappear like a fart in the wind.
Exactly!!! And the congress critters know this already.
Don’t count your Democrats before they hatch Mr. Issa. No doubt the Dems will promise something to get the Repubs to “negotiate” with Holder...once he is off the hook for the contempt charge those 33 votes will disappear like a fart in the wind.
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Pray for a little jail time for Holder to improve his memory.
That works.
Keep demanding more e-mails, have more committee hearings, etc. Keep his smug face on the tube right up to the election. With the short attention span of the electorate, the closer this gets to November the better for our side.
But they will never get 2/3rds of the senate to vote to remove him from office and it will be spun as a racist partisan move.
I hope it happens anyway just so we can get a recorded vote for posterity. It would be nice to see ObaMao forced to give him an early morning pardon on January 20, 2013.
And Okie city.
Agree. Everyone is mentally on vacation now.
Issa needs to grab onto some reality. When push comes to shove, those 31 donks will get in line to kiss Holder’s butt.
I heard that they think he’ll produce some docs rat the last minute but it shouldn’t excuse the fact that he has not produced what was asked for in 18 months.
Yup. He will throw a few more (nothing big) at them just to stop the contempt talk.
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