Posted on 09/20/2012 2:02:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Arizona Republican Rep. Ben Quayle told The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder gave him false testimony under oath about Operation Fast and Furious wiretap application documents during a June 7 House Judiciary Committee hearing.
Quayle said the Department of Justice’s inspector general report proves that Holder lied to him while under oath during the hearing.
“I saw earlier that Holder is basically doing a victory dance and that he thinks this [inspector general] report exonerates him and there was no dishonesty with Congress — that’s just a blatant lie,” Quayle said in a phone interview. “I mean, he lied to me — to my face — during questioning, saying they had reviewed the wiretap applications after the fact and claiming that there was no reference to gunwalking, which is blatantly false.”
Holder told Quayle during congressional questioning that wiretap application affidavits and summaries from Fast and Furious did not, upon his review, mention anything about gunwalking that would have raised the concerns of senior Justice Department officials who signed and approved them.
“I’ve looked at these affidavits. I’ve looked at these summaries. There’s nothing in those affidavits as I’ve reviewed them that indicates gunwalking was allowed,” Holder said during the hearing. “Let’s get to the bottom line. I didn’t see anything in there that would put on notice a person who was reviewing either at the line level or at the Deputy Assistant Attorney General level, that you would have knowledge of the fact that these inappropriate tactics were being used.”
Quayle followed up by asking: “Are you saying in the summaries or in the whole affidavit?”
Holder confirmed that his statement was about “in the summary as well as in the affidavit.”
The DOJ inspector general came to the opposite conclusion about those very same affidavits, essentially implying that that Holder statement is not true.
“We reviewed the wiretap affidavits in both Operation Wide Receiver and Operation Fast and Furious and concluded that the affidavits in both cases included information that would have caused a prosecutor who was focused on the question of investigative tactics, particularly one who was already sensitive to the issue of ‘gun walking,’ to have questions about ATF’s conduct of the investigations,” the inspector general wrote in its report released Wednesday.
If House members were to pursue perjury charges against Holder for this apparently false statement to Congress, they would likely run into the same roadblock they encountered in holding Holder in criminal contempt of Congress. (RELATED: Key Holder deputy resigns as inspector general releases Fast and Furious report)
This summer, a bipartisan group of House members voted Holder into both criminal and civil contempt of Congress for his failure to comply with a congressional subpoena into Fast and Furious. The criminal contempt resolution stalled because Holder’s DOJ told Ron Machen, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, not to enforce it.
House members, however, remain intent on pursing the civil contempt charges in court — with the ultimate goal of having a federal judge overturn President Barack Obama’s use of executive privilege to help Holder withhold Fast and Furious documents.
DOJ spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler has not responded to TheDC’s request for comment about the inspector general contradicting Holder’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.
Quayle should simply file a complaint with whatever State holds the AG’s law license. Holder is clearly guilty of perjury, contempt and acting in a manner that brings disrepute to the practice of law. (three courses of conduct that are specifically prohibited by Maryland Statute and most other states.)
There will be prior cases against attorneys in that jurisdiction involving similar conduct (I know...who would expect attorneys to behave unlawfully /sarcasm) that will hamstring whatever Court or Administrative Board has to hear the accusations.
Simple.
The law means nothing to the Obama crowd. Perjury is commonplace there.
What will the Congress do? Well: because it is an election year they may squeal a little, but the effect is they will do nothing. Just like they did nothing with the recess appointment, the Obama Amnesty, his lack of defense of Doma, his Executive Orders which give him Powers as great as those Hitler enjoyed.
They will do nothing.
Like I said, we will see how serious Mitt is when he takes office. If there are orange jumpsuits then we’ll know.
I believe you can forget the Orange Jumpsuits.
No President has ever held the outgoing President to task for the sins of his Former Administration , and it won’t start with Romney.
IMHO, OBozo has crossed the line on that sort of protection. We shall see.
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” — Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
Wow. Things/people really don’t change, regardless of when they happen(ed) here on earth. Sad...
Ben Quayle just lost his bid for re-election in the Republican Primary (AZ).
Don’t get too jiggy wid it, Holder...it ain’t over yet.
Absolutely cannot let this POS skate away.
See #28. Ben Quayle just lost his bid for re-election in the GOP Primary in AZ.
Didn’t he take an oath when he was sworn into office? He is continuously under oath as I see it.
Didn’t he take an oath when he was sworn into office? He is continuously under oath as I see it.
Ok, Holder lied and broke the law, Obama ignores the constitution and breaks the law almost at will. We all know they are both “Guilty”....So who the hell is gonna make them pay for these crimes? NOBODY!!!!! When you have the numero uno law enforcement people in the country breaking the law, who’s left to prosecute them? The answer is only going to come to “US”, yes you and me. WE MUST, REPEAT, MUST vote them out and then go for the throat! Only then will justice be served.
We don’t want resignations, we want convictions and jail time.
Ooooh...I like that.
What a legacy, the first disbarred AG....Well, I hope he would be the first.
The WH and USDOJ no doubt are drawing up a long and extensive pardon list for the “eventuality” that they will not get 4 more (or more) years.
But what are they going to do about it?
Oh, brother. Doesn’t look like Issa and Grassley are too thrilled with this ‘report; either.
David Codrea has already started picking the ‘report’ apart. G-d protect Codrea and Vandeboegh.
Thanks for the ping.
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