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Exclusive: Holder Says 'No' to Special Counsel to Investigate Benghazi
breitbart.com ^ | 5/15/13 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 05/15/2013 7:07:26 PM PDT by Justaham

Breitbart News has obtained an exclusive video of Attorney General Eric Holder flatly rejecting the idea of appointing a special counsel to investigate Benghazi.

Filmed on May 15 and provided to Breitbart News by Special Operations Speaks, the video shows Holder emerge from his car and walk towards the Rayburn House Office Building for hearings on the IRS scandal. Holder is clearly asked, "Mr. Holder, will you appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Benghazi?"

In equally clear tones, Holder answers, "No," and disappears into the building.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazigate; constitutionalcrises; ericholder; holder; libya; specialcounsel
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To: Sacajaweau
"No" is the right answer if Congress wil do its job. A special counsel would drag it out forever and be obfuscated by media and the admin. at every turn.

vaudine

41 posted on 05/15/2013 8:15:39 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: Justaham

42 posted on 05/15/2013 8:23:33 PM PDT by TChad (Call them Oppressives, not Progressives)
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To: Justaham

It was Patreaus who protested the revisions to the Benghazi talking points. Is that why his affair was revealed?


43 posted on 05/15/2013 8:28:28 PM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: puppypusher

I don’t think they can. The law was changed in 1999 so that only the Attorney General can appoint a special counsel/investigator.

I believe Congress can appoint a select committee to investigate but the investigation is limited to 90 days. And if I’m not mistaken the end result is that they can recommend that the AG appoint a special counsel...

This is why the Senate confirmation of somebody who hates America is downright dangerous to the country and must NOT be done. Once the guy is in as AG, only impeachment can take him out, and then there’s STILL no AG to appoint special counsel. The AG is a placeholder to keep anybody else from being able to investigate the most serious crimes in the country.

I believe the criteria for confirming an AG should be that they have a solid lifelong history of non-partisan investigation/prosecution. Anybody else in that position is way, way too dangerous for this country to tolerate.


44 posted on 05/15/2013 8:31:59 PM PDT by butterdezillion (,)
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To: jjotto

The Obama regime has lied about why they denied security before this attack, why they refused standard protocols during this attack, and why they lied about what really happened after the attack. Those lies are smokescreens to keep from having to say the truth. IOW, the truth is worse than whatever has been allowed to come out thus far.

If Obama is arming terrorists against us (as, for instance, the 20,000+ Manpads that Ty Woods was trying to locate - enough to take down a US 747 every day for the next 54 years!), that would rise to the level of treason.

If they planned on the Al Qaeda-affiliated Ansar al-Islam attacking and capturing Chris Stevens and left him unprotected, leading to his death - that is manslaughter at the very least.

When you look at the way these people desecrated the members of SEAL Team 6 (after setting them up to be slaughtered and then conducting a whitewash “investigation”) - as if it was arranged by our own military for the terrorists to get revenge on those who had allegedly killed Bin Laden - you see a pattern that’s mighty ugly.

And speaking of ugly, it’s also ugly that Michelle Obama visited in the hospital a Saudi who had been tackled at the Boston marathon finish line, whom she knew to be Hamza, the son of Bin Laden. The supposed “first lady” yukking it up with the guy who planned the Boston marathon bombing to avenge the death of his father Osama Bin Laden. The guy’s smiling face was plastered in front of the Muslim world as it was reported that Michelle had visited him personally. He didn’t even have to work to get Michelle to put out for him; she came to him in full view of the Muslim world. And afterwards, CIA and/or FBI whistleblowers risked 20 years in prison to give the evidence of what had happened to 10 members of Congress and to Glenn Beck who then gave the documentation to all the media companies. And the media companies watched Michelle Obama put out for Bin Laden’s son in full view of everybody and did nothing about it.

So that’s 2 instances where it really looks like Valerie Jarrett’s Iranian and terrorist “friends” were able to get “payback” for the killing of Bin Laden, with a little help from Valerie Jarrett’s puppet regime.

I hope Valerie Jarrett learns the hard way what she gloated over shortly before the stolen 2012 election: “Payback’s a b!tch.”


45 posted on 05/15/2013 8:45:43 PM PDT by butterdezillion (,)
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To: Justaham

Question: Does the DOJ need to be involved in appointing a Special Counsel? Is this some the House can do on their own?


46 posted on 05/15/2013 9:22:24 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: Crucial
It was Patreaus who protested the revisions to the Benghazi talking points. Is that why his affair was revealed?

Makes sense to me now! The WH will do anything to protect their slimy-ness!
47 posted on 05/15/2013 9:42:29 PM PDT by Justaham
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To: Justaham

can’t say I blame him

remember Fitzgerald or Walsh

or Jaworski even

they all have bitten the hand that fed them


48 posted on 05/15/2013 9:45:52 PM PDT by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: blueunicorn6
““Who is the coach for the Obama team?””

The irony about this is that while our privacy is being invaded by the government, and the IRS is demanding intrusive information from private citizens, there are layers and layers of secrets held by the Obama administration. We don't know where much of the money came from that financed his campaigns. We've never seen his college transcripts. A US military physician went to jail because this administration refused to provide a verifiable paper notarized copy of his Hawaii birth certificate. And, the influence and connections to shadowy figures like Soros remain obscure.

49 posted on 05/16/2013 3:12:01 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle (Hil)
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To: Sacajaweau

Obammy used the fbi to gather dirt on every member of congress and the senate.
You think these punks will do anything?
Not gonna happen.
They’ve all been neutered.
Calling Mr.Boehner


50 posted on 05/16/2013 4:14:09 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: Crucial
I've been saying from the beginning that "her job" was to bring down Petreaus. Please notice that nothing....and I mean nothing....happened to her.

Bet she has one big, bad Swiss Bank account.

51 posted on 05/16/2013 4:48:41 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Justaham

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/obama-changes-stump-speech-al-qaeda-no-longer-on-the-run/


52 posted on 05/16/2013 4:56:24 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Justaham

At least Holder is an objective and neutral voice in all this. Imagine how bad it could be if he were an angry, racist, radical socialist who didn’t like America and would do anything to bring her down?


53 posted on 05/16/2013 5:00:06 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Justaham

OSAMA OBAMA & PALS INTEND TO INVESTIGATE THEMSELVES!

Well this should be fun.

54 posted on 05/16/2013 6:02:44 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Holder can't call for a special counsel or select committee (maybe Boehner could) as that would give those in charge subpoena power and depositions would have to be taken...other than those subpoenaed taking the 5th, Obama would most likely take the case off the table with Executive privilege as he did with Fast & Furious.....If The Benghazi Cover-up were exposed then Obama by law would face impeachment.
55 posted on 05/16/2013 6:58:18 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Justaham

Holder is never going to appoint a special counsel for anything. He will have to be indicted and removed and Barry Soetoro, Barack Obama, Steve Dunham or whatever his name is will have to be impeached.


56 posted on 05/16/2013 7:48:51 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Justaham
Exclusive: Holder Says 'No' to Special Counsel to Investigate Benghazi

They are delaying until they appoint the two new SCOTUS judges, then all will be ok. /sarc

Likewise, the GOP will be delaying all this to bring it closer to the election. /puke

57 posted on 05/16/2013 7:49:54 AM PDT by Scooter100 (A balanced budget means Banksters lose $Billion$.)
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To: Vendome
He belongs in jail...pronto.


58 posted on 05/16/2013 7:51:40 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Piffle....)
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To: Diogenesis
the murdered, raped, Ambassador

I keep seeing references to this alleged debauchery in comments here and on other discussion boards but have yet to read any real reference. What is your source for stating the Ambassador was either pre- or posthumously defiled?

59 posted on 05/16/2013 11:22:50 AM PDT by YankeeinOkieville (Obamanation [oh-bom-uh-nay-shuhn] n. -- ignorance and arrogance in the highest offices)
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