Posted on 06/14/2012 5:24:04 PM PDT by neverdem
After more than a year of half-truths, stonewalling, obfuscating and outright lying to Congress about the “gunwalking” scandal known as Fast and Furious, Attorney General Eric Holder now finds himself trapped in a box canyon, out of ammo and surrounded by hostiles.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Finally run to ground, the embattled AG has tossed House and Senate investigators a fig leaf of feigned cooperation, just ahead of a House committee’s vote next week on whether to cite him for contempt.
“I’m offering to sit down with the speaker, the chairman, with you and work our way through this in an attempt to avoid a constitutional crisis and come up with ways, creative ways, in which to make these materials available,” Holder this week told Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
At issue is Holder’s refusal to turn over tens of thousands of F&F documents that have been under subpoena since last fall. So far, Justice has managed to slow-walk about 7,600 up Capitol Hill.
Now the embattled Holder wants to deal.“Creatively,” whatever that means.
Sorry, Mr. AG — you had your chance to come clean and you blew it. Now it’s time to play Truth or Consequences.
Next Wednesday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, headed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), will decide whether to move a long-threatened contempt citation forward to the full House...
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And, despite Holder’s delaying tactics, the truth about how that insanity came about has been clear for some time: A cabal of officials at the highest levels of the Justice Department authorized the operation as part of the Obama administration’s “stealth” gun-control strategy — presumably to make it appear that the horrific violence of Mexico’s drug war is partly our fault...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Throw the bum out.
And his boss too while you are at it.
Obama loses....holder is gone anyway....
Gone with a pardon so he won’t squeal.
What's wrong with that? I link the printer friendly version for those with only dialup service.
It’s not like people don’t know/it, hell if I do everyone does. I still remember him saying to Sarah Brady they’d be using creative ways of getting more gun control through.
I can’t wait till he’s gone. I’m tired of looking at that dirtbag with his porno mustache.
In a perfect world, at the House's request, the Attorney General would assign several federal marshals to arrest the subject and stash him in a federal clink until such time as he delivers the goods he has been charged with delivering.
As you can readily see, there is a flaw in this process.
FR itself hasn’t been targeted to dialups in a long time. Is it the duty of FR to dumb itself down, or the option of the dialup user to configure his browser so, say, not to show images unless right clicked on and loaded? More experienced users would understand why the pop up, but a novice might well say eek, a virus.
Impeach Holder before the August recess. Clinton was impeached in December. The Senate trial was over in early February.
Remembering and paraphrasing the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan at the time of the Clinton Impeachment - ‘this is not a Constitutional crisis. This is a crisis of the regime’.
The Amateur and his corrupt regime - Jarrett, Michelle, Holder, Axelrod, are running the administration off the cliff. Will Congress have the will to stop them? That is the crisis.
Did you think the current Senate would convict Holder ?
Not in a month of Sundays .....
I could only imagine the media leading with ever story:
Holder impeachment Hearing possible tainted by charges of racism .....blah. Blah, blah
Is everyone dreaming? Holder will be in his current position until the President wants him to leave. He will never be charged with anything.
Much info about what can happen if a person is in Contempt of Congress here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress
As far as the constitutional crisis that Holder has referred to, it may be that Holder and obamma will jusr ignore the contempt citation and refuse to respond to Congress, thus creating a constitutional crisis as to what happens next.
And... no ads and other crap to deal with when going to the main site.
Same here. I thought the only sanction that Congress can impose on an executive branch member is impeachment by the House and removal from office by the Senate.
We’re better off with Holder twisting in the wind as AG. If he goes now, in the gnat-like attention span of American voters, he’ll just be a faded memory come November. Best he’s allowed to stay on and continue to be a lightning rod. He’s a reminder as to the criminal nature of the current regime.
That's how I read it. Holder and Obama will brazenly dismiss the authority of Congress. The big question is what Congress will do about it. Zero is betting they will, ultimately, do nothing, leaving Holder in place.
Agent Brian Terry gave his life - honorable ATF agents sacrificed everything to come forward. Holder does NOT deserve 'a deal'... We have the money and time to take him to trial - get the whole story...
No, but it will put a lot of rat senators in a bind on Election Day, about 23 seats this cycle, and it will demoralize a large part of Obama's base, especially those of Mexican ancestry. How does the GOP lose? It's a win - win.
Still no guarantee that what he turns over will be complete and they will not submit anything that would incriminate themselves. You can be sure this is just a stall again hoping that it will last until King Obama is reelected.
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