Posted on 06/06/2013 9:18:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
As controversy continues to swirl around multiple scandals in Washington and as calls for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign grow louder, the nation’s top cop has said he has no intention of going anywhere.
Attorney General Eric Holder told NBC News Wednesday that he has no intentions of stepping down.
Holder has been embroiled in a furor over a Justice Department subpoena of Associated Press phone records and an investigation of leaks to Fox News correspondent James Rosen.
Holder told NBC he is uncomfortable with how some of the leak investigations have progressed. Although he approved some of the steps in the investigation, he said laws and regulations forced his hand and should be changed.
"I'm a little concerned that things have gotten a little out of whack ... I think we can do a better job than we have. We can reform those regulations, reform those guidelines to better reflect that balance,” he said.
So, how is it that after years embroiled in scandal and a criminal contempt charge, Holder is still around? Because President Obama wants him around. Just this week the White House reconfirmed full support for Holder, who is under investigation for perjruy by the House Judiciary Committee.
White House officials said on Monday that Obama supports Holder, who has been his attorney general since he took office in 2009. Holder has faced a number of controversies over the years which the administration has blamed on Republican partisan manoeuvring.
Denis McDonough, the White House chief of staff, issued a statement saying that Obama and his team "believe that the attorney general has the intellect, experience and integrity to efficiently run the justice department and not get distracted by the partisans who seem more interested in launching political attacks than co-operating with him."
As a reminder, both Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives have called for Holder to resign. Last year, both Democrats and Republicans voted in the House to hold Holder in contempt, a vote the majority of Americans approved of.
When Ubama says that he has complete faith in Eric we will know that he is on the way out.
He shouldn’t tempt God (And I don’t mean Obama)
Kind of like one of those old black and white gangster movies, where Peter Lorre stands on the rooftop and shouts: “Come and get me, Coppers!”
Only this time it’s the chief copper who’s doing the act.
How things change.
Now THIS IS what the 2nd amendment is for.
I believe that, regarding getting rid of Holder, it would be like getting rid of Robert during the JFK administration.
He said they "had no intention of spying on members of Congress or the Supreme Court."
Now THIS IS what the 2nd amendment is for.
“things have gotten a little out of whack”
Incredible.
“Besides the unpleasantness in front of the book suppository, how d’ya likes Dallas, Missus Kennedy?”
Mayor Eric Holder
Follow the white rabbit...
PghBaldy ~:” He said they “had no intention of spying on members of Congress or the Supreme Court.”
By spying through cellphones accidently left on , they can exert ‘undo influence’ on the decision process.
The entire pres__ency can be summed up as : “ Deniable Plausability”
Holder and Dear Leader are joined at hip.
Rule number one for Affirmative Action hires: Always refuse to leave until fired, and then claim discrimination and sue. Holder is a black man. He isn’t going anywhere.
In Your Face.
Big Disgrace.
This is what is called, “setting in your heels”. Eric Holder is in the wrong, no doubt about it, but he also has the tenacity of a wood tick or swamp leech. Short of doing some serious bodily damage, he is going to be tough to dislodge. We may have to take a bath in kerosene.
Lighting the match afterward, though, is going to take a lot of resolve.
"Desensitizing Americans to accountability under our Constitution's rule of law, aimed at destroying it."
I’m Not Going Anywhere
God father approved
He’s got a LOT of document and digital media destruction to do, to cover-up his crimes. It’s difficult to get others to help you with such things, unless they want to become felons as well.
Honestly, I hear the bus warming up. But I think Obama thinks he’s got more dirt to stick holder with before the bus is put in to gear. Once you have a fall guy selected might as well hang everything you can on him.
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