Posted on 06/30/2012 7:29:37 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Justice Department won’t prosecute Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt
ASSOCIATED PRESS Last Modified: Jun 29, 2012 08:50PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department declared Friday that Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to withhold information about a bungled gun-tracking operation from Congress does not constitute a crime and he won’t be prosecuted for contempt of Congress.
The House voted Thursday afternoon to find Holder in criminal and civil contempt for refusing to turn over the documents. President Barack Obama invoked his executive privilege authority and ordered Holder not to turn over materials about executive branch deliberations and internal recommendations.
In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, the department said that it will not bring the congressional contempt citation against Holder to a federal grand jury and that it will take no other action to prosecute the attorney general. Dated Thursday, the letter was released Friday.
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In case you missed it.
Strip funding from the whole operation.
fox, hen house
If they were Republicans, the _resident and attorney general would already be doing time in the federal penitentiary.
Normally, "getting away with murder" is just a figure of speech. In this case, there were hundreds of murders committed, and it does look like Holder, and the Obama regime, are going to get away with these crimes.
Mark
Why can’t the civil contempt charge go forward? That’s why they took 3 votes on Thursday the way I understood it.
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